Leicester Forest East services

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The services straddle the main road.

Leicester Forest East services is a motorway service station situated between junctions 21 and 21a of the M1 motorway, near Leicester, England.

It is a grade 2 listed building, designed for the opening of the M1 in the 1960s, based on an Italian design used on the Autostradas. While it no longer has its silver service restaurant it does contain a number of shops and fast food outlets straddling the motorway.

There is no legal vehicular access to the motorway service station from nearby Leicester Forest East, although there is nothing physically stopping cars from exiting the motorway to the A47.

There is a large mobile phone mast next to the northbound car park.