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Hilton Park
From Motorway Services Online
| Hilton Park | |
| Moto | |
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| Road: | M6 between J10a and J11 |
| Address: | Moto Hilton Park Motorway Services Area M6 Essington Wolverhampton Staffordshire WV11 2AT |
| Telephone number: | 01922 412237 |
| Signposted from the road? | As Burger King/M&S (northbound) Costa/Burger King (southbound) |
| Opened: | 1967 |
| Previous operators: | Rank, Pavilion, Granada |
| Previous names: | Birmingham North |
| Grid reference: | SJ962050 |
| Services type: | Two sites located between junctions, connected by an internal bridge. |
| Visit Hilton Park Northbound/Moto's official website Visit Hilton Park Southbound/Moto's official website | |
Squashed in on the M6 between J10a and J11, Hilton Park is a large and very busy service area not far from Birmingham.
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Facilities
General: Local Information, Picnic Tables, Children's Play Area (southbound only), Game Arcade, Showers, Wi-Fi
Restaurants: Eat & Drink Co., Burger King, Costa Coffee
Shops: WH Smith, Ladbrokes, Marks and Spencer Simply Food, Fonebitz
Fuel: BP with pumps for Unleaded, Ultimate Unleaded, Diesel, Ultimate Diesel and AdBlue
Motel: Travelodge[book rooms] (southbound only)
Parking Prices
First two hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £8 and HGVs £18, or £20 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
Hilton Park has a lot to answer for. Its location is the main reason why J10a only faces south, and it has also meant that a whole new dual carriageway has had to be proposed to link the M54 to the M6 Toll. For a while it was to be closed so that junction improvements could take place either side, in a similar fashion to Leicester Forest East.
This isn't going to help southbound traffic, where the next services are 30 miles away for traffic for the south-east and 50 miles for traffic for the south central. This would have been solved by Perry Barr services, which were never completed. When you consider this and just how busy this bit of the M6 is (it's the second busiest single stretch of motorway in the UK), it's no surprise that in 1998 Hilton Park was noted for being the busiest service station in the UK. However, since then the M6 Toll has taken a small amount of that traffic away so it's not known where it still lays claim to this title. Incidentally, around that time Hilton Park was extended to become the first "mini-shopping centre". The extension made it the first site to gain a Cyber Café and the last to get a Trucker's Lounge. Neither of these facilities are still available.
For a while Hilton Park was known as Birmingham North before changing back. They changed back partially because Wolverhampton Council weren't happy with something within their area being named after Birmingham.
An M&S store opened here on the 15th February 2007 and a WH Smith store has also opened here, replacing the Retail Store, T2 and Birthdays. The bridge between the two sites used to be unsafe to walk across due to high levels of asbestos. They thought it might need to be completely rebuilt, which would require closing the M6 below and the Highways Agency wouldn't give Moto permission to do this. They did mark Hilton Park as an "approved truckstop", but this is no longer the case.
Its location has also meant that the M54 needed its own service station - Telford. The name Hilton Park derives from the name of the stately home which the services are built on, which itself is named after the nearby village of Hilton.
It appeared in the BBC's 'Motorway Cops' in 2009 after a lorry raid.
Survey Results
In 2006 Hilton Park won a five star loo award.
Also in 2006, Holiday Which? magazine rated the services at 2/5.
Alternatives
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| Corley (30 miles) Frankley (M5, 22 miles) Warwick (M40, 50 miles) | Services on the M6 |
Stafford (North) (M6 northbound, 18 miles) Stafford (South) (M6 southbound, 17 miles) Knutsford (52 miles) |
| Frankley (M5, 22 miles) | Moto services |
Stafford (North) (M6 northbound, 18 miles) Knutsford (52 miles) |
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