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Jail House Cafe

With ample parking, the cafe, a converted coach, serves all the usual temptations of a roadside establishment. The difference here is that the coach is just to one side of the approach to Gatwick Airport and offers panoramic views of the runway and its busy aircraft movements. Richard Wain-Heapy achieved an ambition when he opened the food stop recently. But why a coach?

“I love most forms of transport,” Richard explains. “I’ve always wanted a coach, but when you’ve got one, what do you do with it? It’s still road legal and this seemed the best compromise.”

And the Jail House moniker? A nearby building is now the workshop for Adrenalin Motorcycles (another of Richard’s realised ambitions) and many years ago it was the overspill lock-up facility when things got lairy in the nearby village of Charlwood.

Meanwhile, among Adrenalin’s lines of Japanese classics, there’s a sprinkling of interesting British and Italian machinery that could prove even more tempting than the tea…