Norton Canes 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

M6 Toll The M6 Toll, referred to on signs as the Midland Expressway (originally named the Birmingham Northern Relief Road or BNRR), and stylised as M6toll, connects M6 Junction 3a at the Coleshill Interchange to M6 Junction 11A at Wolverhampton with ...

, in the village of

Norton Canes Norton Canes is an industrial village, civil parish and ward of Cannock Chase District, in Staffordshire, England. It is situated out of the centre of Cannock. At the 2001 census it had a population of 6,394, and an area of of which 86% is gre ...

near the towns of

Brownhills Brownhills is a town and former administrative centre in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. A few miles south of Cannock Chase and close to the large Chasewater reservoir, it is northeast of Walsall, a similar distan ...

Cannock Cannock () is a town in the Cannock Chase district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It had a population of 29,018. Cannock is not far from the nearby towns of Walsall, Burntwood, Stafford and Telford. The cities of Lichfield and Wolverh ...

, and

Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands County, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east ...

, in

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, England. It is operated by

Roadchef Roadchef is a company which operates 21 motorway service areas in the United Kingdom. It is the third-largest motorway service area operator in the country, behind Moto and Welcome Break and followed by Extra. History Roadchef was founded in J ...

, which has a 25-year lease on the site. The company also uses the site as its head office.

History

Norton Canes Services, a pleasing interior

Opened on 9 March 2004, the site the site was announced as featuring

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in the restaurant during the evening and free

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washes in the petrol station during quiet periods. It has been described as having "the look of a Scandinavian airport lounge". At opening, the service area produced 200 jobs for the local area. The 2019 Motorway Services User Survey found that Norton Canes had the highest customer satisfaction of motorway services in the UK.

Location

Norton Canes services is located on the M6 Toll between junctions T6 and T7, and is positioned so that it can be accessed before reaching the main toll plaza in either direction. It is a single-sided site, unlike a large majority of other service areas which have separate facilities for each direction. For this reason it is possible to do a

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at the services; however, it is not possible to avoid the toll in that way.

Present day

The petrol forecourt is operated by BP and is located to the south of the main services building. In March 2016, a

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restaurant was opened at the site.

References

External links

RoadChef official website — Norton CanesMotorway Services Online — Norton Canes
{{UK Motorway Service Stations Transport infrastructure completed in 2004 M6 motorway service stations RoadChef motorway service stations Buildings and structures in Staffordshire Transport in Staffordshire