Warwick services
M40 between J12 and J13
Signposted from the road.
CV35 0AA
map and directions
Two sites located between junctions, with no public connection between them..
This is the Welcome Break service area on the M40. For the smaller services on the A46, see Budbrooke.
Once quite an open and spacious site, it has now been extended considerably to provide a wider range of facilities.
Facilities
Catering: Burger King, Template:Harry Ramsden's, KFC, Starbucks, Subway, Costa Express, Krispy Kreme, Yorkshire Tea, Starbucks Drive Thru, Template:Tossed Shops: Waitrose & Partners, WHSmith, Template:Fone Bitz Amenities: Template:Ecotricity, Game Zone, Showers, Template:Tesla : Days Inn Forecourt: BP, Shop, Template:The Deli, Template:Upper Crust, Coca Cola Freestyle, Krispy Kreme, Millie's Cookies, Rollover, Starbucks on the Go, Tango Ice Blast, AdBlue Containers
Parking Prices
First two hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £15 for a further 24 hours and HGVs, caravans and coaches must pay £30 for up to 24 hours (or £32 to include a £10 meal voucher).
Prices can be paid in the shop, with instructions in each car park. They are strictly enforced by ParkingEye.
Contact Details
🏢 Address:
Welcome Break Ltd
Warwick Services M40
Banbury Road
Ashorne
Warwick
CV35 0AA
- 🌍 Official Welcome Break/Warwick Northbound Website
- Official Welcome Break/Warwick Southbound Website
- Facebook Page
- Foursquare Page
- 📞 Telephone number: 01926 650168 (northbound)
01926 652080 (southbound)
Trivia and History
The former Coffee Primo lounge, built as a Little Chef.
The northbound Days Inn hotel was closed for a few months in 2007 after the ground floor flooded.
The southbound services gained a new Starbucks Drive Thru on 20 December 2013. One is now being built on the northbound side.
In 2000 a swan made of quartz chips was put in place in at the entrance to the southbound services, with a flowerbed reading 'Welcome to Warwick'. The swan was based on (but different to that of) the old Welcome Break logo, although it hasn't been seen for quite a few years.
The two sides of Warwick have always been treated as separate on Welcome Break's website. This appears to come down to the way their first website described the road layout at J13 (which has no signs when travelling south), and they have copied it ever since.
Upper Crust units opened here in the filling station shops on both sides in June 2018, one of three sites to gain this new brand at the time.
Opening
The services originally consisted of two competing plans: one by the Department for Transport and the other by Mobil. Mobil would have included a vehicular bridge at the services, while the DfT considered building a footbridge and later dropped it.
The revised plan which was eventually built was a joint partnership between Mobil and Welcome Break. It was known as 'Barn Hill'.
When it opened, advertised facilities were The Granary food court, La Baguette, food hall, news stand, gelleria, sweet shop, Customer Services and Forte Travelodge.
For a fairly new service station the exit slip roads are surprisingly short.
Alternatives
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| none on M40 Hopwood Park (M42 west, 22 miles) Tamworth (M42 north, 35 miles) Hilton Park (M6 north, 45 miles) Corley (M6 south, 26 miles) Telford (M54, 53 miles) Norton Canes (M6 Toll, 47 miles) | Services on the M40 | Cherwell Valley (23 miles) |
| Hopwood Park (M42 west, 22 miles) Corley (M6 south, 26 miles) Telford (M54, 53 miles) | Welcome Break services | Oxford (M40, 53 miles) Peartree (A34, 35 miles) |
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