South Mimms, the first British service area directly accessible from the M25 (Junction 23), opened


Saturday 6th June 1987

South Mimms, the first British service area directly accessible from the M25 (Junction 23), opened. It was built on the site of Bignell’s Corner, named after a garden centre, Bignell and Cutbush, which was close to the junction of the old A6, and A1. At the junction there was also a pub, the Middlesex Arms, and an Esso Motor hotel, near which developed a notorious truck stop, the Beacon Cafe, infamous for the selling of black market goods, and for prostitution.


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