UK’s most expensive petrol stations revealed with drivers paying £1,200 MORE to fill up – is your local overpriced?

BRITAIN'S most expensive petrol stations have been revealed, with drivers paying £1,200 more to fill up compared to the cheapest.

Some Brits are paying up to £1.77 per litre, well over the £1.50 national average, in what the RAC is calling a "postcode lottery".

(The UK's most expensive petrol stations have been revealed.Credit: Getty)

(Some Brits are paying up to £1,200 a year more to fill up)

Research from comparison site PetrolPrices found that there was a vast difference in rates at forecourts in different parts of the UK.

Strensham Services, just off the M5 in Worcestershire, came out as the priciest, with the average 55-litre car costing £97.46 to fill up on average.

That works out at a whopping £1.77 per litre.

If you compare that to George Harrison Services in Whitby, where a full tank is just £74.58, it means drivers at Strensham would pay an extra £1,200 a year to fuel up.

Stafford Services on the M6 followed in second most expensive at £95.81, while the popular Telford Services on the M54 rounded out the top three at £95.48.

The latter was tied with the M11's Birchange Green, with Cherwell Valley on the M40 just behind in fifth.
At the other end, stations like Blakenhall and Witton Road all clocked in under the £75 mark.

That puts a litre of petrol at just £1.36 in these areas.
It comes as the Competition and Markets Authority investigates potential price inflation on UK forecourts.

Motoring organisations have accused operators of keeping prices well above wholesale rates and being slow to follow declines in the price of oil to widen their profit margins.

Northern Ireland sees the cheapest average prices for any of the UK's four nations.

(UK's most expensive petrol stations)

£ per 55-litre tank

1.M5 Strensham Motorway Service Area Northbound - £97.46

2.M6 Stafford Motorway Service Area Southbound - £95.81

3.M54 Telford Welcome Break Motorway Service Area - £95.48

4.M11 Birchanger Green Welcome Break Motorway Service Area - £95.48

5.M40 Cherwell Valley Motorway Service Area - £95.37

6.M1 Watford Gap Connect Motorway Service Area Northbound - £95.1

7.M1 Northampton Connect Motorway Service Area Northbound - £95.1

8.M1 Northampton Connect Motorway Service Area Southbound - £95.1

9.M1 Watford Gap Connect Motorway Service Area Southbound - £95.1

10.M1 Markham Vale Motorway Service Area - £95.04

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