Cherwell Valley services is a
motorway service station
Motorway service areas in the United Kingdom and Ireland, also known as services or service stations, are rest areas where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel/recharge, rest, eat and drink, shop or stay in an on-site overnight hotel. The vas ...
on the
M40 motorway
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The motorway is dual three lanes except for junction 1A to junction 3 (which is dual four lanes) a short section in-between the exit and entry slip-r ...
at
Stoke Lyne, near
Bicester
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, in
Oxfordshire
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,
England
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. In August 2011 it was rated as 3 stars by quality assessors at
Visit England
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;
however, it is unknown whether this was a rating of the new or temporary building.
Location
The services are located at junction 10 of the M40, and are accessed from a roundabout on the junction.
Despite its name, it is neither in the valley nor the drainage basin of the
Cherwell, but rather beside a small east-flowing stream that becomes part of the Padbury Brook before joining the Great Ouse at Buckingham.
History
![Cherwell Valley Services](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Cherwell_Valley_Services.jpg)
It was opened in the spring of 1994 and gave the 89-mile motorway its first service station, more than three years after its completion. The site was previously occupied by a toilet facility, which had been there since the motorway's opening.
Three more service stations have since been added on the M40:
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Warwick
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Oxford
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Beaconsfield
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A
Travelodge
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has existed at the service station since its opening.
2010 fire
On 15 April 2010, the main building was destroyed by fire.
The main site was to be rebuilt to a similar style to
Wetherby services
Wetherby Services is a motorway service area north of Wetherby on the A1(M) motorway in northern England. It opened in September 2008, and the hotel (a 126-bed Days Inn hotel, the first major hotel in the north of the town) opened later. The s ...
on the
A1(M)
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.
Construction on the new building started on 27 June 2010 and was completed for reopening on 30 June 2011.
References
External links
Moto official site — Cherwell ValleyMotorway Services Online — Cherwell ValleyMotorway Services Info — Cherwell Valley
{{Motorway service stations in the United Kingdom
Transport infrastructure completed in 1994
M40 motorway service stations
Moto motorway service stations
Buildings and structures in Oxfordshire
Transport in Oxfordshire