Heston services
| Heston Services | |
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The eastbound services building.
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 Heston services (Greater London)
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| County: | Greater London |
| Road: | M4 |
| Coordinates: | 51°29′17″N 0°23′28″W / 51.48807°N 0.39106°WCoordinates: 51°29′17″N 0°23′28″W / 51.48807°N 0.39106°W |
| Operator: | Moto Hospitality |
| Website: | Moto |
Heston services is a motorway service station on the M4 motorway in the London Borough of Hounslow, built on land that once formed part of the now defunct Heston Aerodrome.
It is owned by Moto. The 11-mile £19m Chiswick-Langley section of the M4 (London - South Wales Motorway) opened on Wednesday 24 March 1965, together with the Heathrow Airport spur. During construction of this section, much vandalism took place near Harmondsworth and Harlington. The lighting of the site was provided by the street lighting division of British Lighting Industries. The 100ft main lighting columns were supplied by British Steel Corporation's Northern and Tubes Group (Stewarts & Lloyds).
The westbound side was opened on 4 March 1967, when in Middlesex. It had 46 petrol pumps. It was opened by Granada Ltd, and was their third service area after Toddington (1964) and Frankley (1966). It had been planned to open in July 1966.
The eastbound side was opened on 4 January 1968 by the then Miss United Kingdom, Jennifer Lynn Lewis and entertainer Joe Brown. The whole project had cost £500,000. The eastbound side is the part nearest the former Heston Aerodrome. Neville Chamberlain arrived from Munich in a Lockheed 14 on 30 September 1938, to state I have in my hand a piece of paper (his Munich Agreement), known as his peace for our time speech.
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