Original owner: Mobil
Subsequent Owner: Granada (in 1973?)
Current Owner: Moto
Location: M6 Northbound J 35/36

Then:
Originally opened as Burton West

Trivia:
A Single sided, inter junction site, or, in other words, it serves the northbound side of the motorway. Killington Lake serves the Southbound side about 7 miles north of this site.

One of the few sites where the Head Lease is owned by a petrol company. The services are by arrangement.

Received votes so far and a sample of comments:
People who prefer this MSA 14
People happy to visit 3
People who avoid this MSA 3
Selection of comments received
  • sinde the early eighties when i first started driving and going to the lakes or scotland,my friends and i have nicknamed forton services marineville as in the gerry anderson show stingray. .can anyone else see the resemblance.. paul.lancs. - 2005-09-14
  • This is my regular stopoff en route between Bucks and Yorks. The food is nicely presented, and the staff are invariably friendly. Has an air of being properly customer-focussed. Dont like the potted philosophy boards at the food counter... - 2005-10-24
  • Much better now that Costas is there now, As always. Wimpy was empty on my last visit! - 2006-01-27
This is a very old site, and we used to have a voting/comment system here, but for now it is turned off, sorry. Please also note the comments above are very old too and won't necessarily reflect the current state of the site and reflect the opinion of a visitor to the website, not the view of the website operator.


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