If you’re travelling to Coventry on the M40, you’ve a range of options if you want to stop and take a break. Oxford, Beaconsfield, Warwick , and Cherwell Valley services are all there and waiting for you to pull in and have a rest. The thing is, they’re all very much of a muchness.
You know what to expect. You’ll have a newsagents or a mini supermarket where the snacks are double what they’d be on the high street, you have a melee of people fighting to get to the counters at the fast food venues, you'll have the fruit machines in a dark corner, and when you’re outside, you get a cacophony of lorries, children throwing tantrums, and the din of the motorway as an ambient white noise. READ MORE: One of Britain's rarest cars goes on display in our area However, there’s one motorway services that has none of those things and it’s the British Motor Museum in Gaydon.
Now, it doesn’t have a petrol station on site nor can you get a can of coke, although you can do both of those at the Esso in Gaydon village. It also isn’t free to use. It’s £19 per adult but you get access for the whole year.
What you do get is a clean and well kept building, a lovely cafe, immaculately clean toilets and an entire museum thrown in for free. Perfect to stretch your legs and occupy the kids for a while to break up a long journey. Then there’s the free to access parts which include an enormous car park, a playground, and a large green space for a gentle walk to stretch the legs.
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