United Kingdom rest areas & motorway services
Find rest areas, service areas and truck stops on the motorways in the United Kingdom: 967 stops in 107 regions, with facilities, a map and a Navigate button for each one.
- Rest & service areas
- 967
- Service areas
- 491
- Rest areas
- 462
- Truck stops
- 14
- With toilets
- 197
- With EV charging
- 186
- With truck parking
- 127
Browse by region
- Aberdeenshire 3
- Angus 3
- Bedford 3
- Blackburn with Darwen 2
- Blaenau Gwent 2
- Borough of Blackpool 3
- Borough of Luton 2
- Borough of Wokingham 2
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 3
- Bridgend County Borough 1
- Bristol 1
- Buckinghamshire 13
- Cambridgeshire 28
- Cardiff 10
- Carmarthenshire 10
- Central Bedfordshire 3
- Ceredigion 11
- Cheshire East 7
- Cheshire West and Chester 4
- City of Edinburgh 1
- City of Milton Keynes 3
- City of Peterborough 8
- Conwy 3
- Cornwall 12
- County Durham 40
- Cumberland 6
- Darlington 10
- Denbighshire 2
- Derbyshire 8
- Devon 45
- Dorset 5
- Dumfries and Galloway 8
- East Lothian 3
- East Riding of Yorkshire 6
- East Sussex 4
- England 98
- Essex 13
- Fife 1
- Flintshire 5
- Glasgow City 1
- Gloucestershire 24
- Gwynedd 4
- Halton 3
- Hampshire 24
- Hartlepool 8
- Herefordshire 3
- Hertfordshire 13
- Highland 14
- Isle of Anglesey 2
- Kent 9
- Lancashire 17
- Leicestershire 10
- Lincolnshire 24
- Medway 1
- Merthyr Tydfil County Borough 2
- Middlesbrough 1
- Monmouthshire 5
- Moray 1
- Neath Port Talbot 1
- Newport 3
- Norfolk 10
- North Lanarkshire 2
- North Lincolnshire 2
- North Northamptonshire 9
- North Somerset 1
- North Yorkshire 22
- Northern Ireland 55
- Northumberland 7
- Nottingham 1
- Nottinghamshire 17
- Oxfordshire 39
- Pembrokeshire 9
- Perth and Kinross 2
- Plymouth 6
- Portsmouth 1
- Powys 7
- Redcar and Cleveland 7
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 2
- Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead 3
- Rutland 4
- Scottish Borders 1
- Shropshire 18
- Somerset 9
- South Ayrshire 1
- South Gloucestershire 6
- South Lanarkshire 5
- Southampton 1
- Staffordshire 14
- Stirling 3
- Stockton-on-Tees 16
- Suffolk 10
- Surrey 9
- Swansea 1
- Swindon 1
- Telford and Wrekin 4
- Thurrock 4
- Vale of Glamorgan 2
- Warrington 11
- Warwickshire 12
- West Berkshire 4
- West Northamptonshire 15
- West Sussex 11
- Westmorland and Furness 21
- Wiltshire 6
- Worcestershire 9
- Wrexham 4
- York 1
Rest areas map
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Driving in the UK: motorway services, tolls and rules
British motorways are almost all free, and motorway service areas are open around the clock. Here is what to expect and which rules are worth knowing before you set off.
- Speed limit on motorways
- 70 mph (112 km/h) for cars; 60 mph when towing a caravan or trailer.
- Tolls
- Almost none. The exceptions include the M6 Toll near Birmingham and the Dartford Crossing on the M25, which is paid online (Dart Charge) by midnight the day after you cross.
- Lorry driving bans
- No national ban. London has its own night and weekend controls for lorries over 18 t.
- Emergency number
- 999 or 112.
Services, lay-bys and truck stops
Motorway “services” have fuel, food, free toilets and at least two hours of free parking; longer stays usually cost a fee. On A-roads, lay-bys give you somewhere to stop but rarely have facilities. Truck stops off the motorway offer lorry parking and overnight facilities for drivers.
Smart motorways
On motorways without a hard shoulder, orange emergency areas with SOS telephones let you stop safely if your vehicle breaks down. If you cannot reach one, put your hazard lights on and call 999.
Official information:
The Highway Code (GOV.UK)
· National Highways
· Dart Charge (GOV.UK)
Last checked: October 2026
Main motorways and roads
The roads with the most rest and service areas in the United Kingdom. Open a region to see every stop grouped by road.
- A19 39 stops
- A1 33 stops
- A38 32 stops
- M6 27 stops
- A66 25 stops
- M1 24 stops
- A40 23 stops
- A1(M) 20 stops
- A5 20 stops
- A34 20 stops
- M5 20 stops
- A46 15 stops
- A487 14 stops
- M4 14 stops
- A41 13 stops
About rest areas in the United Kingdom
This directory lists 491 service areas with fuel or food and 462 simpler rest areas in the United Kingdom, plus 14 truck stops. Among them, 197 stops have toilets and 127 stops have truck parking. Facilities, opening hours and closures can change, so always check signs on site.
Regions with the most stops: England (98), Northern Ireland (55), Devon (45), County Durham (40), Oxfordshire (39).