Clacket Lane 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

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midway between junctions 5 and 6, in

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, United Kingdom, adjacent to the parish borders between

Limpsfield Limpsfield is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs close to Oxted railway station and the A25.

and

Westerham Westerham is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 3.4 miles east of Oxted and 6 miles west of Sevenoaks, adjacent to the Kent border with both Greater London and Surrey. It is recorded as early as t ...

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, a small village and a town respectively. It is the largest

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services in the UK, and one of the largest and busiest on the UK motorway network serving traffic on the extremely busy southern stretch of the M25 London orbital motorway, and traffic to and from the coastal ports and the

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. It is named after a road which passes over the motorway nearby.

History

Service stations at the site were first proposed in 1972. During planning, the services were intended to be named Titsey Wood after the forest that surrounds the site. The services were opened by Robert Key, Minister for Roads and Traffic on 21 July 1993. During construction of the sites, artifacts from

Roman Britain Roman Britain was the period in classical antiquity when large parts of the island of Great Britain were under occupation by the Roman Empire. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410. During that time, the territory conquered was ...

were found, specifically from a disused

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and are now displayed at the service station.

References

External links

Motorway Services Online - Clacket LaneArchaeological site report
{{Transport in Surrey M25 motorway service stations RoadChef motorway service stations