Operator: Euro Garages Phone +44 1204 474923 | Date opened: 1971 | |
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Previous operator(s): Kenning Motor Group, Rank, Pavilion (formerly Granada) and First Motorway Services Previous name(s): Anderton services; Rivington services; Bolton West services Similar Shell, BP, Days Inn Charnock Richard M6, Mercury Service Station, Clayton Brook Service S | ||
Lamborghini aventador crash on the m61 motorway at rivington services
Rivington services is a motorway service area in Anderton, Lancashire, England. The service station is situated between junctions 6 and 8 of the M61 motorway (there is no junction 7).
Contents
- Lamborghini aventador crash on the m61 motorway at rivington services
- Focus rs st owners leaving rivington services for blackpool
- History
- Media
- References
Focus rs st owners leaving rivington services for blackpool
History
The services were first built in 1971 under the original name of Anderton services; however, they were later renamed Rivington services, and Bolton West services. In 2011 they retook the name Rivington services after being acquired by Euro Garages from First. It has changed hands a number of times having been owned by the Kenning Motor Group, Rank, Pavilion, Granada, and BP who leased it to First Motorway Services. In the summer of 2009, the service area was acquired by Blackburn-based Euro Garages. After years of criticism, which was dubbed as the worst service station in the country, plans are on the way to demolish the existing buildings and replaced by a smaller main building, petrol station and other facilities and amenities. These new facilities are currently being phased in and includes the forementioned retaking of the name Rivington Services. It is thought that the name was changed in order to remove the connection with the former First-owned services.
Media
When known as Bolton West the services were used in the filming of The Services, a pilot episode for comedian Peter Kay series That Peter Kay Thing, a spoof documentary of a day in the life of motorway service area staff.