The Watford Gap service station is on which British motorway?
Watford Gap maps (). The canal-side building still stands but, as of 2000, has closed for business and needs renovation. The earlier Watford Gap Inn is also still standing and is in good repair and generally unaltered, with the stabling yards and main structures used as farm buildings. It can be easily viewed from the road: there is a parking lay-by on the southbound side of Watling Street. The village is now mainly known for the nearby Watford Gap services on the M1 motorway, which was the first motorway service station in the United Kingdom. Charles Jennings is reluctantly forced to rethink
Watford Gap his preconceptions following the first chapter of "Up North: Travels Beyond the Watford Gap" with the many ways in which "the North" is socially and geographically as diverse as "the South" as the narrative increasingly finds efforts to depict a North/South divide as contrived. Roy Harper's 1977 album "Bullinamingvase" contains a song titled "Watford Gap". Motorway service areas, which have since undergone radical innovations, were at the time in the United Kingdom typecast as spartan. The owners of Watford Gap services objected to his first reference to the place being (""Watford Gap, Watford Gap / A plate of grease and