Folkestone services

Stop 24 Services
Stop 24 Services
	Stop 24 Services Location within Kent
Information
County	Kent
Road	M20
Coordinates:	51°05′42″N 1°02′42″E / 51.095°N 1.045°E
Date opened	2007

Stop 24 services is a motorway service station on the M20 motorway at Westenhanger, seven miles from Folkestone in Kent. They are the second to be built on the motorway and were opened in 2007.

The services are found off Junction 11. They contain a petrol station, parking for both cars and lorries, and a number of shops including W H Smith a foreign exchange facility called Xchange. Now open is the lorry park with 82 parking spaces and customs clearance facilities provided by ChannelPorts Ltd

History

Junctions 10 to 13 of the M20 motorway were opened in 1981.^[1] Prior to the construction of the services, the proposed site was subjected to an archaeological investigation. This was because the area was close to known archaeological sites. Shards of pottery dating from the 1st–4th centuries were discovered and there may have been a Roman settlement between the current site of the services and line of the nearby Roman road from Lympne to Canterbury.^[2]

Facilities

Stop 24 has no on site hotel so therefore, the next service station with services is Roadchef Maidstone.

Restaurants

Burger 100
Subway
KFC
Real cafe co.
Chopstix noodle bar.

Petrol station

The Petrol station at stop 24 is a shell station.

Other Facilities

WHSmith
Bureau de Change
Showers

References

^ M20/M26/A20(London - Dover): Strategic development – Description of route, Highways Agency, retrieved 5 September 2009
^ Stevens, S (1994), Archaeological Evaluation of Land Adjacent to Hillhurst Farm, Westenhanger, Hythe, Kent (TR 132372) (Project No. 1994/126), Ditchling: South Eastern Archaeological Services