Chiverton Cross services
A30 at Chiverton Cross
(also accessible to traffic on the A390 and the A3075)
Signposted from the road.
TR4 8HS
map and directions
Single site located at a junction.
This service area used to be a strange example of two adjacent petrol stations, named Chiverton Cross and Three Burrows.
Facilities
Catering: Starbucks Outdoor Space: Grass verge around coffee shop; public footpath connections Forecourt: Esso, Londis, Costa Express
Parking Prices
Short stay customer parking is available for cars at both facilities, with parking in the Starbucks car park limited to 3 hours maximum stay during store opening hours only. These restrictions are strictly enforced by Parking Eye.
No HGV parking is available.
This information is provided to us by third parties. You should always check with staff on site.
Contact Details
🏢 Address:
Chiverton Cross
Blackwater
Truro
Cornwall
TR4 8HS
Trivia and History
Chiverton Cross was a crossroads positioned where the smaller of the two modern roundabouts is. There was a large garage on the corner, which is now the used car dealership.
Other facilities arrived after the roundabout was built in the 1980s, which replaced three cottages. The Chiverton Cross branch of Little ChefHistory opened in 1988. This was joined by a Burger King in 1998. Those closed in 2008, becoming a Starbucks store.
Two filling stations continued to operate side-by-side. The original forecourt was a Shell filling station named Chiverton Cross, later becoming an Esso filling station with Snack & Shop store, while the second was branded Elf and called Three Burrows.
Seeing Double
Three Burrows became a Total site in 2003, following the merger of Elf with TotalFina. The shop went on to be branded Premier. Three Burrows was then re-branded Esso in 2011, creating the unusual situation where two seemingly identical petrol stations trade side-by-side. In the same year, Chiverton Cross was removed from Ordnance Survey maps where it had been listed as a full service area.
Both forecourts were acquired by MRH in 2012. These were transferred to MFG in 2018, following the merger of the two companies, who closed the Three Burrows forecourt in 2020 in favour of Chiverton Cross being closer to the road. For a while after its closure, the car was at Three Burrows was still accessible.
Expansion Plans
Several plans to significantly expand facilities around this area have been proposed over the years.
There were plans to add a picnic area and drive-thru restaurant to the Three Burrows site in 1998, but this never happened.
Another plan was granted permission in 2013 which would have seen the car sales showroom demolished and a 67-bed hotel with restaurant built in its place, but this wasn't carried forward. A subsequent plan would have seen the car sales showroom turned in to a restaurant with the rear of the building maintained as workshop garages. Eventually a Rowe's Cornish Bakers store was added in 2019.
A separate plan for a hotel and restaurant to be built on the north-western arm of the original roundabout was granted planning permission in 2016, which was renewed later.
Meanwhile, Cornwall Council granted planning permission for both filling stations to be demolished and replaced with one single, larger petrol station in 2018. Further proposals for a hotel and restaurant development adjacent to the current filling stations was granted in August 2019.
As part of the project to upgrade the A30 in the area to dual carriageway, the Chiverton Cross Roundabout was removed in June 2023. Access to the service area will now be provided via the new Chiverton Junction, approximately half a mile down the B3277. It's not yet known whether the road signs will promote the new entrance, or whether the diversion will impact trade.
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