Guide to Skewen services

(Gwasanaethau Sgiwen)

A small service area as the A465 leaves the M4.

Facilities

Catering: McDonald's Drive Thru Outdoor Space: Children's Play Area; Grass verge next to forecourt (care needed) Charging Points: InstaVolt 120kW CCS & 50kW CHAdeMO Forecourt: Texaco, Londis, Costa Express, Rollover

Parking Prices

Short stay customer parking is available for cars. No HGV parking is available.

Parking and use of the forecourt is for forecourt customers only and is strictly enforced.

This information is provided to us by third parties. You should always check with staff on site.

Contact Details

Trivia and History

The service area here was developed by Thornfield Roadside Ltd in 1991 as a filling station and motorists restaurant combination, with permission granted in April 1992. The site opened in 1995 as an Elf filling station alongside a McDonald's Drive Thru restaurant.

The forecourt went onto be owned by Malthurst under Pace branding in the early 2000s, before rebranding to Total in the mid-2000s. In 2010, the site was rebranded to Texaco. Malthurst's successor, MRH, rebranded the site to Esso with one of their own-brand Hursts stores in 2016. MRH was then acquired by MFG, who in 2019 reverted the forecourt back to Texaco before adding a Londis store during summer 2020.

The McDonald's restaurant went onto gain several extensions and reconfigurations, and in 2018 gained an external children's play area. The car park also gained a cash machine in 2001, situated in its own brick building, but has since been removed with the brick building remaining.

IONITY planned to install four electric vehicle charging bays at the back of the forecourt in 2019, but this plan was later withdrawn. Meanwhile, McDonald's installed two InstaVolt chargers in their car park in summer 2023.

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