Colsterworth

Colsterworth
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Road:	A1, at the Colsterworth exit (also accessible to traffic on the A151 and B676)
Address:	Moto Hospitality Colsterworth Grantham Lincolnshire NG33 5JR (Google Maps link)
Signposted from the road?	Yes
Opened:	1989
Previous operators:	Granada
Grid reference:	SK937238
Services type:	Single site located at a junction.

Once a roundabout that was a hub of services activity. The Colsterworth Roundabout has since been removed, but the services can still be accessed through a new junction.

Services are also sometimes known under the name Grantham (South).

Facilities

General: Truck Wash, Wi-Fi
Restaurants: Little Chef, Burger King, Little Chef Express
Shops: unknown
Fuel: Esso (with: Costa Express Air1 AdBlue Containers)
Motel: Travelodge^{[book rooms]}

The Esso filling station is open 24hrs

Parking Prices

First two hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £8 and HGVs £16, or £18 to include a £7.50 food voucher.

Prices can be paid through the phone, with instructions in each car park. They are strictly enforced by CP Plus.

Trivia

The A1 to the north of the roundabout housed a dual-sided Happy Eater site, with a Travelodge joining the southbound one. The Esso Jubilee Garage is also located at the north-east quadrant of the roundabout (southbound services). Then to add to this, Granada came along in about 1989 and built their own Colsterworth services, complete with filling station and lodge in the south east quadrant.

The restaurant has since, under Granada ownership, been AJ's, then Burger King. However, when Granada bought Forte and acquired the Little Chef, Happy Eater and Welcome Break brands and sites much changed. Both Happy Eaters briefly became Little Chefs then closed in the 1990s, and the Little Chef moved to Colsterworth services instead. However, as Granada, now Moto, owned the larger Grantham North services a mere 10 miles up the road, they sold most of Colsterworth, as part of their sale of Little Chef in 2002 and it still soldiers on under Little Chef ownership, with Little Chef replacing Granada's branding across the site. Moto have retained ownership of the petrol station and motel, which they lease out to Esso and Travelodge respectively.

Today, the roundabout has been removed and the services are accessed from a new junction, with two signposted exits for southbound traffic. They are still under Little Chef ownership and continue to trade as one of its larger sites, Esso's Jubilee Garage is still there although re-branded to Jet, the northbound Happy Eater is the China Moon, Chinese restaurant and the southbound Happy Eater and lodge are derelict!

In 2012, The Coffee Tempo! here was also replaced with Little Chef Express along with 10 other former Coffee Tempo! sites.

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