Oxford services is a motorway service station next to junction 8A of the M40 motorway at Waterstock near Wheatley in Oxfordshire. It is named after the nearby city of Oxford. The services are owned by Welcome Break and opened in the summer of 1998. There is also a Days Inn hotel on the site. There is also a Welcome Break area at the Peartree Roundabout . It is one of four services along the 89-mile M40 motorway; the others are Beaconsfield, Cherwell Valley and Warwick.
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