Winchester

Winchester
Moto
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Road:	M3 between J8 and J9
Address:	Moto Services Shroner Wood Winchester Hampshire SO21 1PP
Telephone number:	01962 791140
Signposted from the road?	As Costa/Burger King
Opened:	2001
Previous operators:	RoadChef
Grid reference:	SU522359 (northbound) SU522355 (southbound)
Services type:	Two sites located between junctions, with no public connection between them.
Visit Winchester Northbound/Moto's official website Visit Winchester Southbound/Moto's official website

Fairly new services on the M3, recently sold to Moto.

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Facilities

General: Showers, Meeting Room (southbound only), Wi-Fi
Restaurants: Eat & Drink Co., Burger King, Costa Coffee, Krispy Kreme
Shops: WH Smith, Fonebitz (southbound only)
Fuel: Shell (pumps include LPG)
Motel: Premier Inn^{[book rooms]} (southbound only)

Parking Prices

First two hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £10 and HGVs £16, or £18 to include a £10 food voucher.

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

Trivia

Winchester's location has been slated because not only is it quite a way from the city of Winchester, but it's located between where a substantial amount of traffic leaves for the A303 at J8 and a substantial amount of traffic joins from the A34 at J9. Several services had previously been considered around J7, but these were ruled out as the junctions here are close together and busy, so Winchester was seen as a better site.

Uniquely, the services only have one secret exit: in other words, authorised traffic can access the southbound services via Chillandham Lane, whereas northbound visitors have to use the M3.

The services were built in a join partnership between Swayfields and RoadChef and the opening was delayed for several years, finally happening in 2001. On the 19th November 2008 RoadChef sold their part (everything except the petrol station) to Moto for £9.5 million as they were looking to channel more money into their existing sites, and until now Moto didn't have a service station in this area. The services still use RoadChef's style of road signs, showing that Moto aren't going to be spending money where it isn't needed.

In June 2007 staff at the services were threatening to strike after RoadChef said they would withdraw their coach service from Southampton and Winchester provided specifically for staff at the services who couldn't/didn't want to drive. It's not clear what the outcome was.

Scenes from Gladiator were filmed near here before the services were built.

When they owned the services, RoadChef described them as being "attractive". Mm.

An M&S will open here soon.

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Comments and Reviews

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Author: Message: LemonGrove Anonymous wrote: my lorry got burgled while in the car park, have you got active cctv running This site makes quite clear that it isn't affiliated. The number for the services is above if you wish to contact them about it. Posted: 08 Jun 2010, 20:57 Anonymous my lorry got burgled while in the car park, have you got active cctv running Posted: 08 Jun 2010, 17:08 Anonymous What I need to know is when this service station will introduce Fast Charge for electric vehicles. Electric vehicle drivers coming from London to the coast will need to top up the charge within about 50 miles of London as this is the current range of electric cars. Top up could be done in about 1/2 hour. So the Winchester Services will need to install the requisite equipment to enable this. When will this happen? Posted: 04 Jun 2010, 19:37 Alan I'm afraid motorwayservicesonline doesn't actually operate the services. It's more of a central information point for service areas in general. However, the number for Winchester Services is 01962 791140. Give them a call and see if they've found it. Posted: 29 Apr 2010, 21:49 EMAIL REMOVED hello, i left my phone in the toilet on 29-04-2010 at about 5:30 pm.. it is a whit nokia e 71.. if u find it can u please e mail me.. thank u so much... regards shivani Posted: 29 Apr 2010, 21:03 tom great Posted: 05 Feb 2007, 18:34 Admin Post your comments and reviews for Winchester here, or you can return to Winchester. Posted: 08 Jan 2006, 12:37
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