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Budbrooke services

Location:

A46 Warwick Bypass

Signposted from the road.

Postcode:

CV35 8RH

map and directions

Access/Layout:

Two sites located between junctions, with no public connection between them.


A pair of petrol stations immediately north of Longbridge Island.

Facilities

Catering: Starbucks Drive Thru Outdoor Space: Small grass areas next to entry slips (caution needed) Charging Points: southbound only: bp pulse 150kW CCS Forecourt: on both sides: BP, Wild Bean Café, Free Cash Machine
plus northbound only: BP Connect
and southbound only: M&S Simply Food

Parking Prices

Short stay customer parking is available for cars at all facilities. No HGV parking is available.

Parking and use of the southbound forecourt is limited to 30 minutes maximum stay from entry to exit. These restrictions are strictly enforced by BP.

This information is provided to us by third parties. You should always check with staff on site.

Contact Details

🏢 Address:
Budbrooke Services
Old Budbrooke Road
Budbrooke
Warwick
Warwickshire
CV35 8RH


Trivia and History

A brick building with a flat roof, pictured from across a dual carriageway.
The northbound Little Chef, pictured in 2009.

This service area was built in around 1981, as a pair of Little Chefs and Mobil petrol stations. The planning authorities were keen on Budbrooke being presented as an option for traffic on the M40, where there had been a long debate about possible service area locations.

At one stage in the late 1980s they even considered building a flyover at Budbrooke to make access easier for M40 traffic. Eventually the authorities relented and allowed the M40 to be provided with its own service areas instead.

Restaurants

The two Little Chefs were known as the Warwick North and Warwick South branches. They gained Burger Kings in around 1996. The restaurants were closed as part of the sale by People Restaurant Group in 2007.

Little Chef's new owners RCapital reopened the northbound restaurant on 8 October 2008. The event was marked by a gala opening party attended by RCapital's chairman, Peter Ward. Unfortunately the reopening didn't last long and the northbound restaurant closed again in 2012.

The southbound restaurant later reopened as the Autogrill Cafe for a few years, before becoming The Breakfast Junction. This closed in 2018 with the building remaining abandoned.

Coffee Shop Era

The petrol stations were refurbished between 2008 and 2009, and the southbound filling station was further refurbished in 2017, where it gained an M&S Simply Food store.

A Euro Garages-operated Starbucks drive thru opened on the southbound side in August 2015. During late 2018, the former northbound Little Chef building was demolished to make way for another Euro Garages-operated Starbucks Drive Thru which opened on 20 February 2019. The southbound Starbucks was refurbished in February 2021.

BP added a BP Pulse electric vehicle charger to their southbound forecourt in early 2023.

Alternatives

Previous:Next:
Oversley Mill (14 miles)
Warwick (M40 south, 7 miles)
Rowborough (A429 south, 17 miles)
Services on the A46Binley (southbound, 11 miles)
Leicester Forest East (M1 north, 32 miles)