Stafford services
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Stafford services is a pair of motorway service stations on the M6 motorway near Stone, Staffordshire, England.
It is unusual, in that the facilities on the northbound (opened 1996) and southbound (1999) sides of the motorway are operated by separate companies: Moto (formerly Granada) and Roadchef respectively. They are Script error: No such module "convert".[1] apart. In August 2011 the northbound site was rated as 4 stars, and the southbound site 3 stars, by quality assessors at Visit England.[2]
History
Prior to the construction of the station, a geophysical survey was undertaken to examine cropmarks which possibly marked the location of a ring ditch to ensure that an archaeological site was not destroyed. The ditch was not found, although medieval and post-medieval artefacts were recovered.[3][4]
Blue Boar constructed the southbound services, in addition to their services at Watford Gap but shortly before completion in 1999 they were acquired by Roadchef, who now operate the site.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The 2019 Motorway Services User Survey found that Stafford's northbound side was in the top five motorway services in the UK for customer satisfaction.[5]
Location
The services are located in Staffordshire on the M6 motorway between junctions 14 and 15, and are accessed directly from the motorway. Stoke on Trent is located about Script error: No such module "convert". to the north, Manchester about Script error: No such module "convert". to the north, and Stafford is about Script error: No such module "convert". to the south. By road they are about Script error: No such module "convert". from London and Script error: No such module "convert". from Birmingham.
References
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External links
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