Motorway parking spaces

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"On the way home we stopped at Gloucester Services for lunch and had to circle the caravan parking area three times"

Judging by what I see on site, I thought this would be normal behaviour for club members!

Never realised that about low limits. The traffic calming seems epidemic in this country, some of the road cushions are shockers. We can normally straddle most in Jeep, but noticed some places are now using HGV sized ones. Not good for tow hitches. I see France has just declared a natural disaster for agriculture in SE, extreme weather down there. Seems our little jaunt to Wales was relatively dry compared with this. We will have a lot to learn if we take MH overseas. 

Being the lazy kind I tend to use motorways just to get there with as little stop/starting as possible. Gloucester's great for farm foods (albeit a little pricey) but their coffee is rubbish!  As for petrol prices - astronomical - but the guy next to me at Gloucester had the right idea, carry a jerry-can to top up enroute. 

Thanks TDA, have found the stop on Google. Will have to give it a go. When not in a hurry and heading to Bristol, we useually use A46 to Leicester, northern bypass, M1/ M69 to A5, then onto the Fosse Way. Not ever so good for stopping though if towing, unless your lucky with the lay-bys. 

We used to do the Fosse Way Steve, sometimes still do. It’s a good route to break up a journey, but we found the road condition so appalling a few years ago, we decided to take caravan another way. We used to go right down and pick up the M4, then across to M5. Occasionally, if not in a rush, we would turn off just after Agricultural College in Cirencester, and take other route through Frome and Trowbridge, and cross over M4, and meander through Wiltshire and Somerset, taking in Glastonbury and Wells. We have found some lovely places to stop off doing this, CLs I mean. OH did a few months on courses at old Fire Service College in Morton, so he got to know the area quite well. did you know you pass Prince Charles home Highgrove on the Fosse route? It’s not far from Badminton House, think village is called Doughton

Here’s image of CP. we drive right round and park in area that says “Twyford”. It’s not usually busy, straight out into dog walks, but a short stroll down to main retail area.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.1159632,-1.9383077,17z/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-gb

 

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PLEASE STOP THE THEM AND US COMMENTS.  Most M'homes are too long for the car park areas.  It is not that that p....s me off.  Has anyone tried to use the 'Caravan Only' parking area in the services on the M20 near Folkstone the space  just in front of the services?  Every time I have tried it has been full with white vans.  I pointed this out to the management last time and said that if he did not police it I would park my 13m outfit on the sign which said 'Caravans Only' and go for a long comfort break.  He just shrugged his shoulders  so I am very tempted to do it. 

Never had a problem DD and invariably that is where I end up either because there is no dedicated parking or the slots for LVs have everything in them but LVs.

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Perhaps one ought to direct the invective at the authorities who set down the rules and regs. relating to such spaces?

A similar situation exists with regard to parking on our crowded streets, these days. this all points back to the days of Harold Wilson who decided that the provision of car parking spaces should be limited on all new builds.(particularly offices so as to stop people driving to work) this in turn translated to M/way services , public car parks, on street parking

It got me riled up at the time and I still have not calmed down