Birchanger Green services
| Birchanger Green Services | |
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| The main building. | |
| County | Hertfordshire |
| Road | M11 |
| Coordinates | 51°52′16″N 0°11′44″E / 51.871209°N 0.195690°ECoordinates: 51°52′16″N 0°11′44″E / 51.871209°N 0.195690°E |
| Operator | Welcome Break |
| Date opened | 1996[1] |
| Website | Welcome Break |
Birchanger Green services is a motorway service station on the M11 motorway at Birchanger near Stansted. It is owned by Welcome Break.
In 2006, Birchanger Green had the lowest overall rating of all UK motorway service areas on the independent Motorway Services Info website. It often suffers serious congestion because the service area is very large but the site has a narrow exit and entry road which can only accommodate limited traffic. Additionally, the exit and entry roads are controlled by traffic lights whose green phase is too short to accommodate all the vehicles trying to enter and leave the site. This means that the service area can generate huge traffic jams around its own internal roads. Motorists have been known to spend more than half an hour simply trying to leave the site. This can happen when traffic on the surrounding main roads and nearby M11 is flowing perfectly freely.
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[edit] Services
Welcome Break - Birchanger Green Motorway Services offers visitors the following services:
- Starbucks
- Burger King
- KFC
- Eat In
- WHSmith
- Waitrose
- Welcome Break Gaming
- Cash Machines
- Shell
This service station also offers accommodation at Days Inn and Days Hotel and is situated close to Stansted airport.
[edit] Nearest towns / cities
- Bishop’s Stortford
- Cambridge
[edit] Local attractions
- Stansted Airport
- London City
- Audley End House
[edit] References
- ^ Motorway Services Trivia - Chronology - Accessed 16 February 2009
[edit] External links
- Birchanger Green at Motorway Services Info
- Motorway Services Online - Birchanger Green
- Welcome Break Motorway Services - Birchanger Green - M11 Motorway
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