Motorway Services Online

Location:

A1 northbound between Newark and Doncaster

Signposted from the road.

Postcode:

Access/Layout:

Single site located between junctions on one side of the road.

Another in a series of small petrol stations on this old section of the A1.

At Cromwell, the direct entrance from the A1 is suitable for cars only. HGVs are advised to use the Cromwell village exit, to enter the site from the old road.

Facilities

Outdoor Space: Grass verges next to main road (caution needed); public footpath connections to Cromwell village Forecourt: BP, Applegreen, Greggs, Costa Express, f'real Milkshakes, Rollover

Parking Prices

Short stay customer parking is available for cars. 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:
Cromwell
Newark
Nottinghamshire
NG23 6JG

🗺 Grid reference: SK800611
📌 what3words: ///clinking.butchers.positives

Trivia and History

The abandoned restaurant.

A Little ChefHistory and Esso forecourt opened here in the late 1960s as a brother to North Muskham. The Little Chef closed in 2008 and became Café Amore, which itself closed in 2015 and is now an empty building up for sale.

In 2007, the filling station was purchased by The Carsley Group who redeveloped the site with a new sales building, forecourt and canopy. They had planned to rebrand the site to a BP Connect store, but the site opened with a Londis store and coffee lounge. In 2015, The Carsley Group planned to redevelop the site again to introduce a new, larger sales building by demolishing the former Little Chef building and adding new parking areas. These plans were later withdrawn as the site was sold to Applegreen in 2016.

In November 2018, Applegreen purchased a significant stake of Welcome Break. One of the trade-offs of the purchase was that Cromwell would eventually be re-branded Welcome Break, and adjusted to reflect the rest of their estate. It officially became part of Welcome Break in summer 2020, though the branding won't be updated until Spring 2023. A Greggs store was then added in December 2020.

The service station is named after the adjacent village of Cromwell, but some documents call it 'Oliver Cromwell service station'. Whoever it claim to be named after, it's not connected to the former Cromwell Café, which was positioned about a mile further north.

Alternatives

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North Muskham (southbound, 1 mile) Foston (northbound, 3 miles)	Services on the A1	Markham Moor (10 miles)
Newark (8 miles)	Welcome Break services	Darrington (southbound, 43 miles)