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Originally named Rothersthorpe
For many years a Truck-only stop
Northampton Services Southbound, 2008. Honest I haven't just used a Norton
Cannes picture, theres no fountains.
In the old building (now demolished) crossing the footbridge would lead
directly into the MSA building.
Offline-ish services- the site is accessable from the A43 without touching
the M1. The M1 slip for the services is shared with the A43 slip. (multimap)
If you buy food here on a credit card, your bill will read BLUE BOAR MSA
- a touch of its past!
Blue Boar - Rothersthorpe under construction. This building has been demolished, as it was rather too small to cope with growing demand on the road, and the authorities preferred to see this site re-developed rather than build another infill site.
Rebuilt in 2002 and the footbridge is now no longer usable.
The design is almost exactly the same asNorton
Canes, if you are inside it could be hard to tell which you were in.
Its a pleasant stop, light and airy, Costa Coffee a little a slow as normal.
2008 - Several peak time stops here have found the place empty- see below.
Food was ok, although a little on the cooler side for something cooked
to order. Certainly can't complain about queues!
Free Wi-fi! Woo hoo!
Rush hour at Northampton.
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Finmding it a very expensive MSA; may have to revise prefered stopping places. 18/11/2005 16:00:08
Its ok for a cuppa 19/04/2006 10:29:10
24/06/2006 14:21:27
The worlds best MSA in my opinion! 22/09/2006 17:22:44
As a truck driver i use this if passing as opposed to a msa. Lymm truckstop is not an MSA as some quote and when there is a Q of people in the restaurant(e.g.coaches) truckers are allowed to jump the Q. 04/03/2007 17:03:57
Poor choice of food. Expensive food and fuel. 26/03/2007 21:57:20
good but service bad late at night 09/04/2007 22:15:21
Dirty and the food made both my wife and myself ill. Should carry a government health warning. 10/07/2007 19:49:11
27/04/2008 18:57:03
Very good MSA 13/05/2008 19:16:34
This was known as the Blue Boar Back in the sixties, about the only one on the M1 when my band used to thrash up and down from London to the North. All sorts of Musos would meet at odd hours over a congealed fry-up 23/06/2009 19:11:47
Service at Costa was not great - long wait in the queue and the staff chatted away to each other in Polish but barely spoke to the customer. 20/07/2009 19:53:08
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