Clacket Lane services is a motorway service station on the

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midway between junctions 5 and 6, in Surrey, United Kingdom, adjacent to the parish borders between

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, Surrey and

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, a small village and a town respectively. It is the largest

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services in the UK, and one of the largest and busiest on the UK motorway network serving traffic on the extremely busy southern stretch of the M25 London orbital motorway, and traffic to and from the coastal ports and the

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. It is named after a road which passes over the motorway nearby.

History

Service stations at the site were first proposed in 1972. During planning, the services were intended to be named Titsey Wood after the forest that surrounds the site. The services were opened by Robert Key, Minister for Roads and Traffic on 21 July 1993. During construction of the sites,

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s from

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were found, specifically from a disused

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and are now displayed at the service station.

References

External links

Motorway Services Online - Clacket LaneArchaeological site report
{{Transport in Surrey M25 motorway service stations RoadChef motorway service stations