Toddington Services (M1 J11A–J12)

Toddington sits on the M1 between Junction 11A and Junction 12 in Bedfordshire, north of Luton and Dunstable. It is run by Moto, and it was Granada’s very first service area when it opened in 1964.

Two sites, and you can walk between them

There is a separate site on each carriageway, linked by a footbridge that was built with the motorway itself in 1959. That is worth knowing: at most motorway services, pulling in on the wrong side means going without.

What is at Toddington Services

• Food and drink, northbound: Costa, Burger King, KFC, Greggs, Pret A Manger, Krispy Kreme
• Food and drink, southbound: Costa and a Costa Drive Thru, Burger King, KFC, Greggs
• Shops: M&S Food and WHSmith on both sides
• Fuel and charging: a 24-hour BP forecourt with AdBlue and HGV fuelling; Moto CHARGE and GRIDSERVE chargers up to 400kW northbound, GRIDSERVE up to 350kW southbound
• Hotel: Travelodge
• Lorries: dedicated HGV parking, a food-voucher scheme and a truck wash

Two hours free, then £15 for up to 24 hours for a car and £34 for an HGV, or £37 with a £10 food voucher.

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 Facilities change — if something here is out of date, please tell us and we will correct it.

The traffic around Toddington Services

The services sit on the stretch between Junction 11A and Junction 12, which the Department for Transport counts at 137,679 vehicles a day — the 11th busiest of the 42 measured stretches of M1 mainline. Of those, 17,508 are lorries, 12.7% of the traffic. Toddington was the site of the first transport café for lorry drivers on a British motorway, and its northbound Little Chef was the last one left on the motorway network when it closed in 2010.

Traffic figures are Department for Transport road traffic statistics, annual average daily flow for 2025, both directions combined.