There are 14 service areas on the M1, from London Gateway just north of the North Circular to Leeds Skelton Lake at Junction 45. This page lists every one of them, which junctions it sits between, and who runs it — with a page for each giving what is actually there.

• London Gateway servicesbetween J2 and J4 · Welcome Break
• Toddington servicesbetween J11A and J12 · Moto
• Newport Pagnell servicesbetween J14 and J15 · Welcome Break
• Northampton servicesat J15A · Roadchef
• Watford Gap servicesbetween J16 and J17 · Roadchef
• Leicester Forest East servicesbetween J21 and J21A · Welcome Break
• Leicester Markfield servicesat J22 — largely closed · EG On The Move
• Donington Park servicesJ23A northbound, J24 southbound · Moto
• Trowell servicesbetween J25 and J26 · Moto
• Tibshelf servicesbetween J28 and J29 · Roadchef
• Woodall servicesbetween J30 and J31 · Welcome Break
• Rotherham servicesat J33 · Welcome Break
• Woolley Edge servicesbetween J38 and J39 · Moto
• Leeds Skelton Lake servicesat J45 · Extra

Three things worth knowing before you plan a stop

Markfield at Junction 22 is largely closed. The main building shut in 2014 and the petrol station in 2020. Only the Travelodge is open — no fuel, no food, no public parking. Three of the standard published lists of M1 services still show it as a normal stop.

Rotherham at Junction 33 is new. It opened in January 2025, the first new Welcome Break motorway service area in twenty years, and several widely used services lists have not caught up with it.

You cannot always walk between the two sides. Toddington, Newport Pagnell, Watford Gap and Woodall have footbridges. Tibshelf and Woolley Edge do not — at Woolley Edge a footbridge was never built because of unstable coal seams beneath the site. At Northampton the bridge still stands but has been closed to the public since 2002.

The longest gaps without a stop

The M1 is generously served at its southern end and thins out in the middle. There is nothing between Junction 17 and Junction 21, and nothing between Junction 45 and the end of the motorway at Junction 48. Between Junction 4 and Junction 11A there is only one stop, at London Gateway.

See also the map of the M1 junctions, which shows every service area in place along the route, and how busy each stretch of the M1 is.

Service area details are compiled from the operators’ own published information and were last checked on 14 September 2026. Facilities change — if something here is out of date, please tell us and we will correct it.