Popham

Popham
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Road:	A303 between Basingstoke and Andover
Address:	Popham Services Micheldever Winchester Hampshire EH21 8RE (Google Maps link)
Signposted from the road?	Yes
Grid reference:	SU538441
Services type:	Two sites located between junctions, with no public connection between them.

Two separate services at the start of the A303 - the westbound side has what is probably the most famous Little Chef in the country.

Facilities

Westbound

Operator: BP Connect
General: Electric Vehicle Charging Point, Traffic Information, WiFi
Restaurants: Little Chef, Little Chef Express
Shops:
Fuel: BP (with: Wild Bean Café M&S Simply Food)
Motel: none

Eastbound

General:
Restaurants: Popham Diner
Shops:
Fuel: Esso (with: On The Run, Costa & Pay @ The Pump)
Motel: none

The BP & Esso filling stations are both open 24hrs

Trivia

The car park was overflowing months after the new restaurant opened.

The Little Chef here featured in a three-hour documentary on Channel 4 in January 2009, where Heston Blumenthal tried to completely refurbish the brand. For months after the documentary was aired, the site (which used to be near-empty), was packed with customers, with reports of customers queueing to enter the car park and facing long waits inside. Despite this, it took boss Ian Pegler several months before he agreed to roll it out. It is currently being trialled at two more services.

There used to be a restaurant eastbound, this was the Micheldever Little Chef. At this time the westbound Little Chef also included a Burger King.

The eastbound one is now an independent café, open 7 days a week.

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