Westmorland

Westmorland Family is a family business that runs motorway services with Farmshop & Kitchen units at Tebay, Gloucester and Cairn Lodge. It also runs Junction 38 Truckstop for HGV drivers on the M6 in Cumbria, Rheged, a cafe, gallery and cinema on the edge of the Lake District, and a hotel at Tebay Services. The group sources food from more than 200 producers within 30 miles of its businesses and sells its own Westmorland Farmshop products.

Its customers are motorway travellers, commercial drivers, local shoppers and diners, and visitors to Rheged. Revenue comes from food and retail sales, kitchen dining, accommodation, and bookable meeting rooms and cinema at Rheged. The company also farms native-breed beef and sheep in the Cumbrian uplands and runs a Westmorland Kitchen Cookery School.

The business began in 1972 at Tebay, the first motorway services it operated, after the M6 was built across the farm of John and Barbara Dunning. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Penrith. Gloucester Services opened in 2014, and Cairn Lodge Services joined the group in 2014 and was relaunched in 2019. Gloucester Services reinvests 3 pence in every pound of non-fuel sales in local community projects.

Product: Farmshop & Kitchen restaurants and shops at motorway services, plus a truckstop, a cafe-cinema-gallery, a hotel and own-brand food products.