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Location:

M80 at J6
(also accessible to traffic on the A8011 and the B816)

Signposted from the road.

Postcode:

Access/Layout:

Single site located at a junction.

Old Inns is little more than a petrol station and a restaurant, which had a stroke of luck: first it was signed from the old A80 as a service area, and when that became a motorway, it received signs from the new motorway too.

Facilities

Catering: Old Inns Cafe, Milano Express Outdoor Space: Grass area at back of car park; public footpath connections Forecourt: Shell, Select, Deli by Shell, Costa Express, Free Cash Machine

Parking Prices

Parking on the Shell forecourt is limited to 20 minutes maximum stay whilst parking in the restaurant car park is limited to 2 hours maximum stay.

Parking restrictions in the restaurant car park are strictly enforced by Civil Enforcement Ltd.

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:
Cumbernauld
Glasgow
North Lanarkshire
G68 0BJ

🗺 Grid reference: NS771767
📌 what3words: ///fend.handy.edge

🌍 Operators & Official Websites:

Trivia and History

The Old Inns Cafe, in its new building on the old exit slip road.

Old Inns started as a petrol station built next to the north-eastbound carriageway of the new A80, close to Old Inns Farm. Access was also provided to the B816. This meant traffic heading south-west could access the petrol station by driving around the two loops at Old Inns Interchange to join the A80 northbound, and then return by taking the B816 back to the interchange.

The Cumbernauld branch of Little ChefHistory was built alongside it in February 1984. This gained a Burger King in 1998. Despite reportedly high levels of trade, the branch closed in 2007 as Little Chef felt it was unprofitable, most likely due to a previous decision to sell the land to raise cash. The former restaurant building then reopened as a Chinese buffet restaurant called 'Silk Cottage', but this closed in 2017. The building is now home to the Milano Express Pizza and Burger Restaurant.

When the A80 was replaced by the M80 in 2011, the signs for the service area were replaced with blue ones. The direct access from the dual carriageway was closed and instead all traffic had to enter and leave via the rearranged Old Inns Interchange. This is probably now the smallest service area to be signed from a UK motorway.

Around the same time, the forecourt was redeveloped with the flow turned around, to match the new road layout.

The Old Inns Cafe was later added to the restaurant car park in 2011 in a small hut. A hand car wash was also added on the former car park exit slip road in 2012, but this was replaced in 2017 when the Old Inns Cafe relocated into a larger wooden lodge building.

Alternatives

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Bothwell (M74 southbound, 14 miles) Hamilton (M74 northbound, 15 miles)	Services on the M80	Stirling (9 miles)