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Travelling to Great yarmouth soon. Can anyone suggest any suitable services we can park on overnight with our caravan. Peferrably on the A47 between Norwich and Great yarmouth or somewhere nearby.

Many Thanks for your help.

look here

http://www.motorwayservices.info/

Thanks for the response - Very quick i'm impressed!!!

No Motorways near Great Yarmouth, but thanks anyway.

i have had a look at the motorway services website and probably being a bit thick but can you just stop overnight providing you pay the parking fee?  We are new to motorhoming and we are travelling down to Cornwall from Oxfordshire, but wanted to leave home during the evening, drive for couple of hours or so, stop overnight and then carry on next morning, and obviously a service station on M5 would be convenient rather than having to find a site with a late arrivals area, which probably will be off the beaten track!

Quote: Originally posted by patty40 on 11/7/2010

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i have had a look at the motorway services website and probably being a bit thick but can you just stop overnight providing you pay the parking fee?  We are new to motorhoming and we are travelling down to Cornwall from Oxfordshire, but wanted to leave home during the evening, drive for couple of hours or so, stop overnight and then carry on next morning, and obviously a service station on M5 would be convenient rather than having to find a site with a late arrivals area, which probably will be off the beaten track!

You can park overnight but it cost a lot more than  a small CL site.

as much as £25 for overnight stay on motorway

 

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thanks for the advice.

Hope that leegilbert you have a satnav!!  oxfordshire to cornwall, via leicester or cambridge!!  thanks anyway i will do a bit more searching on this site, as we do not want to be far from the motorway.

 good morning patty

 if your travelling from oxfordshire,why don'y you head down to the old road,a303/a30.

 before u get down too far there is a picnic area with toilets etc.just off the a30 nr honiton,has large parking area,toilets open 24hrs,peaceful,cafe opens at 7am for breakkies.

 loads of peeps park up o/night,we use it on the way down from watford,no-one will bother u and its free!!!

non too friendly on sleeping and eating see

http://www.motorhomeparking.co.uk/nfk.htm

Chriska1111

Just to thank you for your advise about the Sedgemoor Services overnight stop, it was great, we paid £18 and that included £10 food voucher. We arrived about midnight and being mid week it was not very busy, so had a decent nights sleep.  Thanks again for the suggestion.

Hi,

Is the 'lay by' on the a30 nr honiton easy to find?....is it actually on the a30 east or west bound?

Thinking of using it...If we can find it.

Thanks