Welcome Break Rotherham: is this really Britain’s best motorway service station?

It is modelled on a Yorkshire village and came top in a new survey, with 99% of visitors praising it. But with its branches of Burger King, Pret and Krispy Kreme, what makes it a cut above?

Name: Welcome Break Rotherham.

Age: Opened last year.

Appearance: A gleaming temple of unlimited possibility.

Steady on, you’re talking about a service station, right? Absolutely not, my good fellow. I’m talking about the service station, a miraculous wonderland designed to restore vitality, banish fatigue, straighten the spine, brighten the eyes …

So it’s good, then. Good?! Such meagre praise barely does justice to this palace of abundance. Welcome Break Rotherham is not just good. It is officially Britain’s best motorway service station.