Petrol and diesel prices at Welcome Break Birchanger
Welcome Break Birchanger, CM23 5QZ. A motorway service area, where you have no choice.
What it is charging
Unleaded: 192.9p a litre, 21.2p over the national average, filed Thursday 22 October
Diesel: 218.9p a litre, 20.2p over the national average, filed Thursday 22 October
Super unleaded: 214.9p a litre, filed Thursday 22 October
Super diesel: 230.9p a litre, filed Thursday 22 October
Unleaded within 5 miles
Mfg Stansted: 175.9p a litre, 2.6 miles away. 17.0p a litre cheaper: saves £9.35 a tank, and costs about £1.03 of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
Sainsburys Thorley: 176.9p a litre, 2.2 miles away. 16.0p a litre cheaper: saves £8.80 a tank, and costs about 88p of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
Mfg Start Hill: 177.9p a litre, 0.4 miles away. 15.0p a litre cheaper: saves £8.25 a tank, and costs about 16p of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
Stansted SF Connect: 178.9p a litre, 2.3 miles away. 14.0p a litre cheaper: saves £7.70 a tank, and costs about 93p of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
Shell Little Waitrose Sawbridgewort: 179.9p a litre, 4.3 miles away. 13.0p a litre cheaper: saves £7.15 a tank, and costs about £1.75 of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
On a 55-litre tank at 40mpg. The distance is straight-line rather than by road, so a real trip is longer than the one costed here.