Clacket Lane services
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Clacket Lane services is a motorway service station on the M25 motorway
in Surrey
, United Kingdom
that is owned by RoadChef
. Services are located on either side of the motorway between Westerham
, Kent
and Limpsfield
, Surrey.
Clacket Lane is one of the largest and busiest services on the UK motorway network serving traffic on the extremely busy southern stretch of the M25, and traffic to and from the coastal ports and the Channel Tunnel
. It is named after a road called Clacket Lane, which passes over the M25 nearby.
During construction of the site Roman artifacts were found from a roman road
and are now displayed at the service station. It is believed that these Roman artifacts inspired the installation of the now-famous electronic coin-operated Bocca della Verità fortune telling machine in the main lobby of the westbound service area.
M25 motorway
The M25 motorway, or London Orbital, is a orbital motorway that almost encircles Greater London, England, in the United Kingdom. The motorway was first mooted early in the 20th century. A few sections, based on the now abandoned London Ringways plan, were constructed in the early 1970s and it ...
in Surrey
Surrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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that is owned by RoadChef
RoadChef
Roadchef is a company which operates twenty motorway service areas in the UK. Behind Moto and Welcome Break, it is the third largest motorway service area operator .-History:...
. Services are located on either side of the motorway between Westerham
Westerham
Westerham is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, in South East England with 5,000 people. The parish is south of the North Downs, ten miles west of Sevenoaks. It covers 5800 acres . It is recorded as early as the 9th century, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book in a...
, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
and Limpsfield
Limpsfield
Limpsfield is a village and parish in the east of the county of Surrey, England near Oxted at the foot of the North Downs. It lies between the A25 to the south and the M25 motorway to the north, near the Clackett Lane service station...
, Surrey.
Clacket Lane is one of the largest and busiest services on the UK motorway network serving traffic on the extremely busy southern stretch of the M25, and traffic to and from the coastal ports and the Channel Tunnel
Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel is a undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. At its lowest point, it is deep...
. It is named after a road called Clacket Lane, which passes over the M25 nearby.
History
The station was opened in 1993. A service station at the site was first proposed in 1972. On the first planning application the service station was to be named Titsey Wood after the forest that surrounds the site.During construction of the site Roman artifacts were found from a roman road
London to Lewes Way (Roman road)
The London to Lewes Way is a long Roman road between Watling Street at Peckham and Lewes in Sussex. The road passes through Beckenham and West Wickham, then crosses the North Downs above Titsey, on the county boundary between Surrey and Kent, and is overlain by Edenbridge High Street.The road...
and are now displayed at the service station. It is believed that these Roman artifacts inspired the installation of the now-famous electronic coin-operated Bocca della Verità fortune telling machine in the main lobby of the westbound service area.