Woolley Edge services
{{Short description|Motorway service station on the M1 in Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
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|operator = Moto Hospitality
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|website = {{URL|https://moto-way.com/services/woolley-edge-northbound/}}
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Woolley Edge services is a motorway service station on the M1 motorway within the borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It lies between junctions 38 and 39 close to West Bretton and west of the village of Woolley.
History
The first Esso Taverna service area to open was the £600,000 Washington-Birtley service area in August 1970.Newcastle Evening Chronicle Thursday 26 August 1971, page 6
Both sites were opened in 1972 by Taverna (Esso). The site opened in the first week of January 1972, but only for fuel.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000901/19720105/008/0008|title=There the lines to London cross|date=5 January 1972|work=Huddersfield Daily Examiner|page=8|accessdate=1 August 2024|via=British Newspaper Archive}} The construction cost was £420,000. The site fully opened in March 1972. The architects were Challen, Floyd, Slaski and Todd.
Parking was for 425 cars, 110 trucks and 12 coaches. 140 staff would work there.Huddersfield Examiner Wednesday 5 January 1972, page 8
One side was 14 acres, and the other side was 16 acres. There was no bridge connecting the two.Huddersfield Examiner Friday 8 September 1967, page 15
=Ownership=
It was one of five sites in the UK sold to Granada in March 1973 for £2.5 million. The current owner is Moto. In 2006, Moto changed the branding to Marks and Spencer and Costa Coffee; also on site are the brands Burger King and Travelodge.
Structure
The services is split into two sites, one on the northbound and one on southbound sides of the M1. The two sites are connected by foot via a local road bridge over the motorway. The northbound side is partly in West Bretton, and the southbound side is in Woolley, West Yorkshire.
There are local access roads from both sites onto the same bridge albeit but are not signed for the majority of traffic, and, as of 26 September 2009, both access roads were fitted with automatic barriers. The services are close to the Barnsley/South Yorkshire border. Despite the services being in the Wakefield district, they're slightly closer to Barnsley than to the centre of Wakefield.
Woolley Edge is an interchange point for coaches operated by Megabus.[http://uk.megabus.com/BusStops.aspx Stops] on Megabus website, viewed 13 March 2013 The Hallam Line, a railway between Leeds and Sheffield via Barnsley, passes directly beneath the service area and motorway, but there is no railway station with access to the site.
File:M1 South from Dennington Lane Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 435256.jpg
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://moto-way.com/services/woolley-edge-northbound/}} (northbound)
- {{Official website|https://moto-way.com/services/woolley-edge-southbound/}} (southbound)
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Category:1972 establishments in England
Category:Buildings and structures in the City of Wakefield
Category:Commercial buildings completed in 1972
Category:Economy of West Yorkshire
Category:M1 motorway service stations
Category:Moto motorway service stations
Category:Restaurants in Yorkshire
Category:Transport in West Yorkshire
Category:Transport infrastructure completed in 1972
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