Leigh Delamere

Leigh Delamere
Moto
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Road:	M4 between J17 and J18
Address:	Granada Hospitality Ltd Leigh Delamere Motorway Services Area M4 Leigh Delamere Chippenham Wiltshire SN14 6LB
Telephone number:	01666 837691
Signposted from the road?	As Burger King/Costa/M&S
Opened:	1972
Previous operators:	Taverna, Granada
Grid reference:	ST890790
Services type:	Two sites located between junctions, connected by a pedestrian footbridge.
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Two very different but very average services located in the middle of nowhere on the M4. The eastbound side is slightly larger and it has a small field by the hotel as well as a children's play area and a lot more trees.

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Facilities

Westbound

General: Picnic Tables, Business Centre, Local Information, Showers, Wi-Fi
Restaurants: Eat & Drink Co., Burger King, Costa Coffee
Shops: WH Smith, Marks and Spencer Simply Food, Fonebitz
Fuel: Esso with pumps for Unleaded, Super Unleaded and Diesel.
Motel: Travelodge^{[book rooms]}

Eastbound

General: Children's Play Area, Picnic Tables, Local Information, Showers, Wi-Fi
Restaurants: Eat & Drink Co., Burger King, Costa Coffee
Shops: WH Smith, Marks and Spencer Simply Food, Barber Shop, Fonebitz
Fuel: Esso with pumps for Unleaded, Super Unleaded and Diesel.
Motel: Travelodge^{[book rooms]}

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

The eastbound service area is almost ten years older than the westbound one, which explains the striking difference between the design of the two sites.

Leigh Delamere used to be listed by the Highways Agency as an "approved truckstop", but no longer are. It's one of three services to offer a Barber Shop, the other two being Lymm on the M6 and Toddington on the M1. To be honest, I'm surprised that these shops haven't suffered the same fate as all the other small shops at Moto services.

Over the past year, the services have seen a major changes to the facilities. T2, Thorntons, Little Chef, The Sock Shop and a Formula One shop have all gone from both sides, the latter being a huge shop which sold a small amount of Ferrari merchandise. The westbound side used to have Birthdays and Scoop stores, and eastbound had a Web Shop and The Body Shop. In November 2006 the country's first service station WH Smith shop opened here, along with the eastbound Marks and Spencer Simply Food store.

A few years ago the westbound unbranded restaurant and Caffè Ritazza units became Costa Coffees. Recently the eastbound Fork in the Road Restaurant and Upper Crust became EDC and Costa respectively, it's surprising that they lasted as long as they did.

There were once plans to rename the services to Chippenham, and beneath the westbound site lies two buried diggers. Why? Who knows!

In circa 2001 a 'drive-thru' Burger King was added to the petrol station, but it has since closed.

Survey Results

In 2006, the services were rated at 4/5 by Holiday Which?

Also in 2006, Leigh Delamere won a four star loo award.

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Comments and Reviews

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Author: Message: Lou I'm sat in the Eastbound Costa as I write this, drinking decidedly average coffee. The toilets were filthy, the shops severely understaffed and the car park full of litter. The services are extremely busy and obviously can't cope with this. Posted: 12 Aug 2010, 10:51 Anonymous CP Plus have tried it on with me as I was just over the 2 hour limit eating and spending money in their services. 1. I will not pay them scammers a penny 2. I will never stop at their services again 3. What a bunch of muppets Posted: 22 Jul 2010, 21:23 Anonymous Stopped here just for a coffee but thought I'd have a breakfast too. The breakfast queue was held up while they waited for plates to be washed. Then the costa coffee stall was being staffed by a lone man who seemed to need to spend five minutes on each customer. My breakfast getting cold, I didn't wait. I moaned at the checkout girl and was told the 'we're very short staffed'. This was Saturday morning. Ate my breakfast, went back to coffee place where a lone but graceless girl was making much better progress. My coffee bought I thought I'd get a paper but there were eight people in the queue in Smiths. Can't people anticipate demand? Part of the problem was that the feckless teenage staff were idling instead of actually clearing plates or whatever else it was they were presumably being paid to do. Dreadful. Posted: 10 Jul 2010, 10:59 MatthewB6323(M) Heavy rain and a disintegrating road surface on the M4 east of Bristol caused me to stop at Leigh Delamere eastbound for an hour from about 8pm last night. Burger King seemed spacious (though anything would after Severn View). Costa was closed but Costa coffee is also served at the coffee point in EDC, which still seemed to have a lot of meals on offer. The services were moderately busy, with several travellers avoiding the bad weather and a smallish core clustered around the television watching the England v Algeria match. While the retail areas were looked after a sign of neglect in the gents toilets was the broken tap which has been left running so long that the surface of the sink has been stained brown by the constant hot water. Posted: 19 Jun 2010, 14:23 Alan I'm quite surprised they didn't direct you to the services on the other side of the road via the footbridge. Pretty poor! Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 17:54 Roarke It may have been a once off, but Feb 09 I called in here at 8:30am Westbound in the morning only to find the gents totally closed. Complete madness, we waited a while, didn;t want to buy food or drink in case the loo's didn't reopen, and 20 mins later, desperate we headed back out onto the M4 and into one on the M5 where the loos were open. May have been co-incidence, but was not impressed and will never call here again. Otherwise, very busy place, lots of people around, but too hectic for us. Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 17:45 Anonymous Doe's anyone know the name of the two diggers? have there family been told yet!!! Posted: 02 Feb 2010, 20:17 luke-85 I've just stopped here on the 2nd, and the brilliently named Fork in the Road restaurant is now an EDC. Shame a boring name which could be used anywhere replaces a nicely appropriete name for a MSA restauarant, even if it is a bad pun! Also Upper Crust is now gone, replaced by a Costa Coffee (which being a coffee lover, fills the enterance with a great smell!) The barber shop and fonebitz are still there, but weren't open. Posted: 04 Jan 2010, 20:11 Johnny See the home page. Posted: 24 Dec 2009, 16:33 Anonymous Your web reference states that I should find exmas opening times on this site but I have not found them Posted: 24 Dec 2009, 16:03
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