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Ordnance Survey 1:25000 map. To be exact, a few metres of the tips of the eastbound slip roads are in Kent, but the entirety of the complex sits firmly in Surrey, including crucially the signs which denote the commencement of motorway regulations (and ergo the end of the service area) on the eastbound carriageway are about 200 metres inside Surrey. This I have established by comparing the map referenced in the article with the Google StreetView of the signs
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