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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
PA & Paul Britton

Motorway service station on the M62 named 'worst in Britain'

A motorway services on the M62 has been named by a transport watchdog as the worst in Britain following an extensive customer survey.

Hartshead Moor East is the least popular out of 119 service stations analysed, according to the survey of 31,000 visitors carried out by the Transport Focus watchdog. The Welcome Break-owned site, on the M62 near Huddersfield, received an overall satisfaction rating of just 80 per cent. Only three out of four, or 75 per cent, of visitors were satisfied with the toilets.

The services is on the busiest route across the Pennines from Lancashire to Yorkshire, which includes the UK's highest motorway point, where the M62 reaches 1,221ft above sea level near Denshaw in Saddleworth, Oldham. Hartshead Moor also has a section for westbound traffic, which received a score of 87 per cent in the survey.

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