Prices are paid using PayByPhone. The location code is The fees are strictly enforced by CP Plus. Northern Powergrid is planning to increase the electricity capacity at Scotch Corner, to allow it to potentially become a charging hub in the future. The junction is one of the few historic waypoints to be a primary route destination in its own right, even though it has no permanent population.
In the s the crossroads was replaced by a roundabout, which required the Three Tuns Inn to be demolished. The new Scotch Corner Hotel now stood in the same corner. When the A1 was upgraded to dual carriageway in the s, a small roundabout was provided here.
The old Dere Street, where the road had been re-aligned, became a lay-by with an AA patrol point. The Vintage Hotel was slightly to the west. One of these petrol stations was called Westside Garage. In the mids, a new section of the A1 was built to the east of here, replacing the existing road either side of the old Scotch Corner Roundabout. This would ultimately spell the end for many of these facilities.
For Top Rank, it was an opportunity: around four properties on Middleton Tyas Lane, known as Middleton Grange, were demolished to make way for their new service area. The new Scotch Corner service area was tiny. The reason for its fame and the name it takes is because this is the turning point for traffic wishing to go to Scotland. Those wanting to go to Glasgow would take the A66 West, but those for Edinburgh would continue on the A1.
This was especially true before the construction of the M6 where HGV drivers would often use the A1 as far north as Scotch Corner in order to avoid having to negotiate the notorious A6 over Shap. In this was a small junction on the A66 - with the A1 a couple of miles to the east.
This had changed by , when the A1 took the route via the junction. The A1 in the vicinity of Scotch Corner was dualled in the s or early 60s. The A66 junction became an at-grade roundabout. A short distance to the south there was a separate at-grade priority junction with the A , with a gap in the central reservation.
In an improvement was completed, which included diverting a one-mile stretch of the A1 eastward onto its present line, building the present elongated roundabout and the two bridges which carry it, and combining the A66 and A junctions into one. The pre alignment of the A1 is clearly discernible today in aerial photographs or large-scale maps, and includes the present northbound on-slip road on the line of the former northbound carriageway , the present lorry park on the line of the former southbound carriageway , most of the present dualled section of the A , and a grassed strip to the south with hedges each side.
To the north-west of the roundabout, the pre-dualling line of the A1 can also be seen. The dualling of a section of the A66 immediately west of the junction was completed in , with essentially no effect on the layout of the junction.
In the same year, the six year-old reinforced concrete piers of the two bridges, which were presumably in poor condition, were demolished and rebuilt in place.
The A66 leads north-west towards Penrith and the M6 motorway. There are also two other exits from the junction: the A towards the Yorkshire Dales and Richmond and a minor road to Middleton Tyas and Croft-on-Tees.
The route now called the A66 was once 'the winter road' from Scotch Corner to Glasgow, by way of Carlisle. Particularly for cattle droving, the shorter route was advantageous when passable. The Summer Road is one of the most spectacular routes in England.
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