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Tebay might have good food. But when it's busy and over crowded it's awful.
The toilets stink and there are queues for everything.
Also the Tebay and Gloucester service are owned by the same business so there basically the same thing. |
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By *ornycougaWoman
over a year ago
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"tebay beyond any doubt.
independent
local
fresh
setting
farm shop
clean
absolutely brilliant. dont bother with anything else if you are in the area"
Can you get a bus from London? Don't have a car but sounds like a smashing day out |
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"tebay beyond any doubt.
independent
local
fresh
setting
farm shop
clean
absolutely brilliant. dont bother with anything else if you are in the area
Can you get a bus from London? Don't have a car but sounds like a smashing day out"
I will drive you and buy you a Gregg's |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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Gloucester services 
I love Tebay.
I hate hate the ones just before Milton Keynes, coming from up North. I'm going to check with my fiancé which ones they are because clearly it is very crucial I type this. |
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"Gloucester services
I love Tebay.
I hate hate the ones just before Milton Keynes, coming from up North. I'm going to check with my fiancé which ones they are because clearly it is very crucial I type this."
Newport Pagnell. Earthy. |
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"Tebay…..innit"
Not for wheelchair users, no. They've put the blue badge bays where there are no dropped kerbs and the disabled toilets are too small to get a wheelchair inside and shut the door. The picnic area is on shingle (wheelchair's nemesis).
I'm not a fan of Tebay  |
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By *ornycougaWoman
over a year ago
Wherever I lay my hat |
"tebay beyond any doubt.
independent
local
fresh
setting
farm shop
clean
absolutely brilliant. dont bother with anything else if you are in the area
Can you get a bus from London? Don't have a car but sounds like a smashing day out
I will drive you and buy you a Gregg's "
If you throw in a bag of sherbet lemons for me to suck on, it's a date |
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"Gloucester services
I love Tebay.
I hate hate the ones just before Milton Keynes, coming from up North. I'm going to check with my fiancé which ones they are because clearly it is very crucial I type this."
Oh yes, they are shit aren't they |
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"tebay beyond any doubt.
independent
local
fresh
setting
farm shop
clean
absolutely brilliant. dont bother with anything else if you are in the area
Can you get a bus from London? Don't have a car but sounds like a smashing day out
I will drive you and buy you a Gregg's
If you throw in a bag of sherbet lemons for me to suck on, it's a date"
Wow, my kind of woman! |
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By *red333Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
Gwasnethau not sure if I've spelt it correctly but loved that services when i stopped there years ago although more recently one in Devon the name i can't remember its got everything lol a surf shop a few different eating places, a barber etc  |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"Gloucester services
I love Tebay.
I hate hate the ones just before Milton Keynes, coming from up North. I'm going to check with my fiancé which ones they are because clearly it is very crucial I type this.
Oh yes, they are shit aren't they "
They really are. It's got awful steps up to a crappy McDonald's, there's a Costa in there. Everytime I drive down to see my mum and family I have to plan how to avoid stopping there.  |
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"Tebay & Gloucester - are you lot for real (or just millionaires) they are one stop rip off shops - I can't even afford to stop for a shit at these! "
True story!
I'm going to throw out a wildcard of Wetherby |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"Gloucester services
I love Tebay.
I hate hate the ones just before Milton Keynes, coming from up North. I'm going to check with my fiancé which ones they are because clearly it is very crucial I type this.
Newport Pagnell. Earthy."
Watford Gap. That's the one. Eurgh. |
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over a year ago
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"Gloucester services
I love Tebay.
I hate hate the ones just before Milton Keynes, coming from up North. I'm going to check with my fiancé which ones they are because clearly it is very crucial I type this.
Newport Pagnell. Earthy.
Watford Gap. That's the one. Eurgh."
That place has some serious history though. Blue Boar and all that. |
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"Gloucester services
I love Tebay.
I hate hate the ones just before Milton Keynes, coming from up North. I'm going to check with my fiancé which ones they are because clearly it is very crucial I type this.
Oh yes, they are shit aren't they
They really are. It's got awful steps up to a crappy McDonald's, there's a Costa in there. Everytime I drive down to see my mum and family I have to plan how to avoid stopping there. "
Go to mcdonalds in milky beans instead! And take a shewee |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have to confess that I've had to redress my lack of knowledge on motorway cervix stations; I had never heard of Tebay. Until now.
I've looked it up. It's very...nice."
It's lovely Nero, it has a duck pond complete with ducks. And farm produce. Used to love stopping there on my way to Dundee/Edinburgh to sit by the pond with a coffee |
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Tebay is definitely the best, Gloucester is another good one.
Stafford is good too, I can usually have a nice hours sleep in the car park without interruption |
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By *929Man
over a year ago
newcastle |
Not sure it’s name, on way back up north from Kent we stopped at one that had a noodle bar, we seeen big terry hollands also eating at noodle bar. Another time at same one it was lovely and stubby had picknic benches on grass area by car park sat in the sun with our bait was lovely |
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"I have to confess that I've had to redress my lack of knowledge on motorway cervix stations; I had never heard of Tebay. Until now.
I've looked it up. It's very...nice.
It's lovely Nero, it has a duck pond complete with ducks. And farm produce. Used to love stopping there on my way to Dundee/Edinburgh to sit by the pond with a coffee"
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I shall visit.  |
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"I don't think I've ever been to a motorway services."
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That's because, in your usual erstwhile flair, you still traverse through country lanes and paddocks, stopping only in highway inns, lodging houses and taprooms. |
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"I have to confess that I've had to redress my lack of knowledge on motorway cervix stations; I had never heard of Tebay. Until now.
I've looked it up. It's very...nice.
It's lovely Nero, it has a duck pond complete with ducks. And farm produce. Used to love stopping there on my way to Dundee/Edinburgh to sit by the pond with a coffee
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I shall visit. "
You will like it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I shall be travelling a lot more to old London Town (Well, St Albans) so service station recommendations welcome
Though that journey is a mere skip for me having been used to Dundee/Edinburgh roadtrips  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Gloucester services , north and south , the farm shop butchery department is magnificent, I buy food there every week and the deli counter is second to none !! |
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"I don't think I've ever been to a motorway services.
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That's because, in your usual erstwhile flair, you still traverse through country lanes and paddocks, stopping only in highway inns, lodging houses and taprooms."
You are kind, and would this were true. It's more that I tend to fill up with fuel prior to a long journey. |
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"I shall be travelling a lot more to old London Town (Well, St Albans) so service station recommendations welcome
Though that journey is a mere skip for me having been used to Dundee/Edinburgh roadtrips "
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There's a delightful one in Mayfair I would wholeheartedly recommend. |
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I don't know the name of it, but somewhere up north I stayed in a hotel in the motorway services, nice place with a bar and restaurant.
I went to the toilets in the services and some bloke was masturbating by the cubicles  staff called the police. |
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"Tebay & Gloucester - are you lot for real (or just millionaires) they are one stop rip off shops - I can't even afford to stop for a shit at these!
True story!
I'm going to throw out a wildcard of Wetherby "
A decent place wetherby services
Better than ferrybridge |
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"I don't know the name of it, but somewhere up north I stayed in a hotel in the motorway services, nice place with a bar and restaurant.
I went to the toilets in the services and some bloke was masturbating by the cubicles staff called the police. "
Was he Woolley Edging? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lot of love for services here. Which is.... Interesting "
They are all grim ! I try to get off the motorway and stop in a nearby town for food and a wee.
Or take a sandwich and piss in a bottle. |
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"Only southern softies doubt the charms of Tebay. I mean, I get it. It’s a long way beyond your comfort zone. But once you’ve tried their sausage …"
As a northerner, just like to point out- Tebay is a family owned service station and guess what, the same family also owns the Gloucester one, so if you’re doing the M6/M5 trip you’ll have no problem getting one of their amazing sausage rolls!  |
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"As a northerner, just like to point out- Tebay is a family owned service station and guess what, the same family also owns the Gloucester one, so if you’re doing the M6/M5 trip you’ll have no problem getting one of their amazing sausage rolls! "
They own Cairn Lodge in Scotland as well. You can cross the border with confidence. |
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"As a northerner, just like to point out- Tebay is a family owned service station and guess what, the same family also owns the Gloucester one, so if you’re doing the M6/M5 trip you’ll have no problem getting one of their amazing sausage rolls!
They own Cairn Lodge in Scotland as well. You can cross the border with confidence."
Aye, I used to work in Fife and moved there from Devon (I get around a lot) so have done all 3 in a day before now! |
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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago
Chippenham Malmesbury area |
Tebay is way over priced. When driving to Scotland, I give them a miss and pull off the Motorway and into the Gretna Green Outlet Village; it's another 50 miles but I think it's better value and choice plus it offers some great retail therapy. |
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"Do any of the Motorway services have those connecting flyovers where you could sit and watch the traffic thunder past you?"
Fleet on the M3 as I recall.
With most folks giving such positive vibes it makes me think of when people used to make a weekend trip to a services when motorways were new and a lot emptier.
Maybe you all could start a club where you meet for a social at the services of the month |
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"Only southern softies doubt the charms of Tebay. I mean, I get it. It’s a long way beyond your comfort zone. But once you’ve tried their sausage …
As a northerner, just like to point out- Tebay is a family owned service station and guess what, the same family also owns the Gloucester one, so if you’re doing the M6/M5 trip you’ll have no problem getting one of their amazing sausage rolls! "
Maybe the family that owns Tebay would like to address the wheelchair access issues? No drop kerbs where the blue badge parking is so you have to push in the live traffic. Disabled toilets too small for a wheelchair to be inside and close the door. Picnic area on shingle which is impossible for wheelchairs to push on. I raised these things about a year ago with them, I wonder if they've been solved? |
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"Do any of the Motorway services have those connecting flyovers where you could sit and watch the traffic thunder past you?
Fleet on the M3 as I recall.
With most folks giving such positive vibes it makes me think of when people used to make a weekend trip to a services when motorways were new and a lot emptier.
Maybe you all could start a club where you meet for a social at the services of the month "
Call it the social services thread? |
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Westmorland on the M6 - stopped there many years ago and it was fantastic.
More recently Gloucester services on M5 - far greater experience than the standard franchise clones that others provide which is mostly shit, fast food at a premium price. |
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"Do any of the Motorway services have those connecting flyovers where you could sit and watch the traffic thunder past you?
Fleet on the M3 as I recall.
With most folks giving such positive vibes it makes me think of when people used to make a weekend trip to a services when motorways were new and a lot emptier.
Maybe you all could start a club where you meet for a social at the services of the month
Call it the social services thread? "
Oh bravo sir, that's terribly good |
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"Gwasnethau not sure if I've spelt it correctly but loved that services when i stopped there years ago although more recently one in Devon the name i can't remember its got everything lol a surf shop a few different eating places, a barber etc "
Gwasnaithau or however its spelt is actually Welsh for services. |
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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago
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"Can’t believe no one has said Leigh delamere. According to Gavin shipmann and his mate smithy it’s the best"
It's just a few miles from me and it's pretty good. Had a Fab meet in the Travelodge their... that's was pretty good too  |
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"Is it just me or has this thread piqued anyone else's interest more than the holiday destinations thread?! "
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You clearly missed the Caravan Towbar thread last year. That was the stuff of legends, I am lead to believe!  |
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As a child I loved Motorway services. I thought they had a bit of excitement like the departure lounge at the airport. I mean you have to have a motorised vehicle to get to them.
Obviously as I’m now an adult this attraction no longer interests me, that’s why I’ve commented a few times and recommended a YouTube channel about them. |
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By *ornycougaWoman
over a year ago
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"Is it just me or has this thread piqued anyone else's interest more than the holiday destinations thread?!
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You clearly missed the Caravan Towbar thread last year. That was the stuff of legends, I am lead to believe! "
Before my time in these parts but I can imagine that was a real crowd puller!  |
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As a young boy I got left at the service's once on The A1.
In back of the car sisters asleep parents stop to get fuel mum for a wee.
I got out went to toilet, they didn't know.
I came out car and family gone!!
This was in the 70's no mobile phones then.
Started crying not one fucker came to see if I was ok.
About an hour later parents car screeched into the services mum jumped out hysterical in tears.
I was happy as at that point had gone back in the loo for another wee wee and found a packet of condom's in the machine unopened obviously.
I opened them and was happily pinging them round the service area like rubber bands not a clue what they where for.
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"Can’t believe no one has said Leigh delamere. According to Gavin shipmann and his mate smithy it’s the best"
Leigh Dalamere is ok but has no individulality about it (another souless clone services with Burger King etc). It has an extra bonus of an "Oriental Themed Kitchen" serving factory made crap constantly reheated day after day until the chuck in the bin date.
I do miss places where staff made food and it was on a plate with knifes and forks - why is that so hard to have these days? |
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"As a young boy I got left at the service's once on The A1.
In back of the car sisters asleep parents stop to get fuel mum for a wee.
I got out went to toilet, they didn't know.
I came out car and family gone!!
This was in the 70's no mobile phones then.
Started crying not one fucker came to see if I was ok.
About an hour later parents car screeched into the services mum jumped out hysterical in tears.
I was happy as at that point had gone back in the loo for another wee wee and found a packet of condom's in the machine unopened obviously.
I opened them and was happily pinging them round the service area like rubber bands not a clue what they where for.
Mr"
bet you’re still doing it |
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"As a young boy I got left at the service's once on The A1.
In back of the car sisters asleep parents stop to get fuel mum for a wee.
I got out went to toilet, they didn't know.
I came out car and family gone!!
This was in the 70's no mobile phones then.
Started crying not one fucker came to see if I was ok.
About an hour later parents car screeched into the services mum jumped out hysterical in tears.
I was happy as at that point had gone back in the loo for another wee wee and found a packet of condom's in the machine unopened obviously.
I opened them and was happily pinging them round the service area like rubber bands not a clue what they where for.
Mr"
Was that when they were 4 for 50p? |
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"Lymm services. Had a few pints there and a room.
A big hello to all you truckers out there."
Just had a surprise bunch of cock pics being Fabbed by a trucker, which was most exhilarating. I'm a fan, now. |
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"Is it just me or has this thread piqued anyone else's interest more than the holiday destinations thread?!
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You clearly missed the Caravan Towbar thread last year. That was the stuff of legends, I am lead to believe! "
I believe Towbar was actually 2020! |
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"Tebay might have good food. But when it's busy and over crowded it's awful.
The toilets stink and there are queues for everything.
Also the Tebay and Gloucester service are owned by the same business so there basically the same thing. "
Same family so it makes a big difference to a huge company |
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"Gwasnethau not sure if I've spelt it correctly but loved that services when i stopped there years ago although more recently one in Devon the name i can't remember its got everything lol a surf shop a few different eating places, a barber etc "
Gwasnethau is Welsh for services! |
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"Gwasnethau not sure if I've spelt it correctly but loved that services when i stopped there years ago although more recently one in Devon the name i can't remember its got everything lol a surf shop a few different eating places, a barber etc
Gwasnethau is Welsh for services!"
That's all the services in Wales covered |
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"Only southern softies doubt the charms of Tebay. I mean, I get it. It’s a long way beyond your comfort zone. But once you’ve tried their sausage …"
Tebay is only good as so quiet and and frequented by those renowned for being tight, Wetherby is likely the best for sheer variety of choice. |
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