We are the family business behind Tebay Services, Gloucester Services and Cairn Lodge Services.
Our business grew out of our family farm, where we still farm native-breed beef and sheep in the Cumbrian uplands.
As farmers and food producers, we cherish the growing and making of good food. Real cooking and careful sourcing are the foundations of everything we do.
We’ve been cooking real food and championing local produce on the motorway since 1972.
Tebay Services in Cumbria was our first business, built by hill farmers John and Barbara Dunning after the M6 was built across their land. We opened Gloucester Services in 2014. Cairn Lodge Services near the A74 was the third motorway services business to join our family, relaunched in 2019.
THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS
WE KNOW OUR PLACE
We celebrate local produce, communities and landscapes, creating a sense of connection unique to each of our businesses.
WE DELIGHT IN OUR CRAFT
We make food from scratch and we nurture handmade skills, championing colleagues and producers who share our commitment to simple good quality.
WE TAKE THE RIGHT ROAD
We believe in the power of a well-run business to benefit people, place and planet, seeking always to make a positive impact.
Our Farmshop & Kitchen is the heart of each motorway service business.
In the Farmshop we sell the best produce we can find in our local areas and beyond.
In the Kitchen we make good food from scratch as you would make it at home.
We prize the handmade.
Our chefs use hand skills and simple equipment to cook seasonal, flavourful meals. Our Farmshop buyers seek out exceptional foods, drinks and lifestyle products made by dedicated people who are experts in their crafts.
We celebrate our places.
Each Farmshop & Kitchen feels unique because we work closely with the farmers, growers and makers in the immediate locality. We work with more than 200 producers within 30 miles of our businesses and many more in the surrounding regions.
We keep it real.
Only honest, authentic ingredients have a place in our Farmshop & Kitchen. We take care to source raw materials that make the lightest impact through their production and transport, and we work with producers who meet the high standards of our sourcing policy.
We pass on our skills.
We cherish hand skills and nurture them in our colleagues. Our butchers practise traditional whole-animal butchery, inspiring their apprentices to learn this endangered nose-to-tail craft. Our new Westmorland Kitchen Cookery School draws on our farm-to-fork approach to train resourceful and fully rounded chefs for the future.
We love working together.
Our buyers and designers work in partnership with makers to create bespoke products under the Westmorland Farmshop brand: biscuits and body lotions; soaps and speciality coffees; hand-printed organic cotton T-shirts and even traditionally tanned sheepskins from our Farm. Some producers even work together on unique collaborations that encapsulate our Farmshop’s spirit of community, our Christmas puddings and Easter eggs being two recent examples.
OUR MOTORWAY SERVICE AREAS
Tebay is where the business began in 1972. When the M6 was built across the farm of John and Barbara Dunning they saw potential to bring opportunity and prosperity to their family. 50 years on Tebay remains a lifeline for the local community who work and trade there. Tebay Services works with 70 producers within a 30-mile radius and a further 70 from the region.
Gloucester Services opened in 2014 in a unique partnership with the Gloucestershire Gateway Trust, a community development charity. 3 pence in every pound of non-fuel sales at the services is reinvested in local community projects. Gloucester Services works with more than 130 producers within 30 miles and a further 70 from the South West region.
Cairn Lodge Services was built in the early 1990s by entrepreneurs John and Aileen MacInnes. The services are built next to Cairn Lodge, the eighteenth-century gatehouse of the now derelict Douglas Castle. Cairn became part of the Westmorland Family in 2014 and shares the same principles of good food which bind all our businesses.
OUR OTHER BUSINESSES
Junction 38 Truckstop is our dedicated services area for HGV and commercial drivers on the M6 in Cumbria, at the interchange with the A685. We offer a warm welcome, homely handmade meals, hot showers and a well-stocked shop selling essential groceries and local produce.
Rheged is a meeting place, Cafe, Gallery and Cinema on the edge of the northern Lake District. Alongside a dynamic calendar of art exhibitions, live-streaming, giant-screen movies and live talks, Rheged offers bookable meeting rooms, relaxed all-day dining and design-led shops.
Our hotel at Tebay Services sits between the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, well placed for breaking a long journey or staying to explore. Our cosy interiors feature locally sourced textiles and crafted furniture, and the relaxed restaurant uses Cumbrian produce, including meat from Tebay Services’ butchers.
