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Revision as of 17:38, 6 February 2021
A1 northbound at Peterborough
Signposted from the road.
PE7 3UJ
map and directions
Two sites staggered between junctions, with no public connection between them..
An old truckstop on the northbound A1 is now overshadowed by it's larger competitor Peterborough less than a mile south.
Facilities
Catering: Template:Website Amenities: Showers Forecourt: BP, Applegreen, Greggs, Costa Express, f'real Milkshakes, AdBlue4You, LPG (Autogas)
Parking Prices
Short stay customer parking is available with HGV parking available at the truckstop café.
Overnight HGV parking costs £20 per night, which includes a £3 meal voucher to use in the café only.
Prices are paid in the café, and can be paid using GBP, Euros, using fuel cards or SNAP.
This information is provided to us by third parties. You should always check with staff on site.
Contact Details
🏢 Address:
Great North Road
Chesterton
Peterborough
Cambridgeshire
PE7 3UJ
Trivia and History
The site is widely known as Kate's Cabin, after the truckstop and café here which opened in the 1930s. It later gained a BP petrol station, which became self-service in 1978. While it was initially popular with lorry drivers, the truckstop was mainly remembered for its potholed car park.
The petrol station was rebuilt in 1987, and again in the late 2000s. In late 2015, was sold by BP to an independent dealer, who introduced a Spar store and Subway to the site.
In late 2017 it was sold to Applegreen. In November 2018 Applegreen purchased a significant stake of Welcome Break. One of the trade-offs of the purchase was that this site would eventually be re-branded Welcome Break, and adjusted to reflect the rest of their estate. In 2020 Welcome Break started promoting "Kate's Cabin", keeping its unusual name, but it continues to be branded 'Applegreen'.
A Greggs store was added to the filling station in December 2020.
Southbound Facilities
On the opposite side of the road was the Alwalton Little ChefHistory and a Travelodge.
Although these weren't signed as services, it's worth noting that it was one of the oldest Little Chefs in the country, even if it was rebuilt in 1986 in its more familiar brick styling. At the same time a new Little Chef Lodge opened, which is now the Travelodge. The old restaurant was in the middle of today's car park, and there was a small, abandoned petrol station there too.
The building gained a Burger King in an extension in 1998, but the Little Chef had to become an EG Diner in January 2018. Both this and the Burger King closed on 23 May 2018. For a long time it was not known what Euro Garages intended to do with the building, as it lay empty. In June 2019 the old building was demolished and work started to build a new Starbucks, which opened on 10 January 2020.
Alternatives
| Previous: | Next: | |
| Peterborough (1 mile) | Services on the A1 | Stibbington (4 miles) |
| Wyboston (southbound, 26 miles) | Applegreen services | North Muskham (southbound, 49 miles) Cromwell (northbound, 50 miles) |