Motorway Services Online

Location:

A41 Whitchurch Bypass
(also accessible to traffic on the A49)

Signposted from the road.

Postcode:

Access/Layout:

Single site located at a junction.

This is the services on the A41 and A49 in Shropshire. For the services on the A40 in Herefordshire, see Symonds Yat.

A half-way point for traffic on the A41 towards Chester.

Facilities

COVID-19 update: Most service areas are fully open. We are regularly reviewing our information.
Catering: McDonald's Drive Thru, Starbucks Drive Thru Forecourt: Esso, Spar, Greggs, Starbucks on the Go, AdBlue4You, Free Cash Machine

Parking Prices

Short stay customer parking is available for cars. No HGV parking is available.

Parking within the McDonald's car park is limited to 90 minutes maximum stay and is strictly enforced.

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

Contact Details

🏢 Address:
Wrexham Road By Pass
Whitchurch
Shropshire
SY13 1JZ

🗺 Grid reference: SJ527412
📌 what3words: ///careless.encoder.acrobats

🌍 Operators (Official Websites):

Trivia and History

The McDonald's restaurant housed in the former Little Chef building and still retaining the red bricks.

Plans for a service station at this location date back to the late 1980s where a 'motorists facility' was proposed. In 1988, planning permission for a petrol station, restaurant, tourist information centre, picnic area and associated parking was granted. In 1990, these plans were amended to just provide a petrol station and restaurant with associated parking.

The site opened in around 1992 and included an Esso filling station and the Whitchurch branch of Little ChefHistory. The Little Chef later gained an extension in 1995 when a Coffee Stop was added, and again in 1998, gaining a Burger King franchise in 1999. There was also plans to added a 40-bed Travelodge in 1999 but this was never built.

The Little Chef closed in 2012 and the building was converted to a McDonald's Drive Thru, still retaining its red brick.

The filling station was formerly operated by Esso directly and included their Snack & Shop store. The site was acquired by Euro Garages in 2015 who added a Spar store and a Subway concession to the filling station. Euro Garages later demolished the car wash in 2016 and built a Starbucks Drive Thru. In 2017, an extension was added to the sales building to add a Greggs store to the site. Following the coronavirus lockdowns in 2020, Euro Garages permanently closed the Subway store which was situated within the filling station.

Alternatives

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none nearby	Services on the A41	none
Whitley (25 miles)	Services on the A49	Battlefield (18 miles)
none nearby	Euro Garages services	Shrewsbury (24 miles)