Cottage Service Station fuel prices
Cottage Filling Station, Chester, CH1 6BS
E10 (Unleaded) price history at this station
Every price change recorded here since we began watching this forecourt on 10 Aug. The first reading is dated earlier because that price was already standing when we started.
The shaded bands are periods with no recorded price. The line stops rather than crossing them, because we did not observe what the price did. 10 Aug–16 Aug, 26 Aug–27 Aug cannot be recovered — no collection ran and no raw feed was archived. 17 Sept–23 Sept, 17 Sept–23 Sept is archived but has not been replayed into the history yet.
How 183.9p compares
Same fuel, same day — E10 (Unleaded).
- Wales173.7p
- Chester174.1p
- UK average174.2p
- This station183.9p
Filling a 50 litre tank here costs £91.95 — £4.85 more than the same tank at the UK average.
Cheaper E10 (Unleaded) within 3 miles
Ranked by price, then distance. Never by anything else.
- 1Esso - Saltney Service Station1.9 mi · 12.0p cheaper a litre171.9p
- 2Broughton Chester Extra - Petrol Filling Station2.5 mi · 12.0p cheaper a litre171.9p
- 3MFG Morrisons Saltney1.7 mi · 11.0p cheaper a litre172.9p
- 4MFG Morrisons Chester Liverpool Road2.3 mi · 10.0p cheaper a litre173.9p
- 5EG Moston Pfs2.8 mi · 10.0p cheaper a litre173.9p
Distances are as the crow flies, so they do not tell you whether the drive is worth it — a station two miles away across a river is not two miles away. To find out what a detour actually costs in your car, use the route planner, or if you know the road distance, the detour calculator.
↑ This is a 30-day high for this station.
Where your money goes
For E10 at 183.9p/litre here, using the government's published fuel duty rate and VAT for the week ending 21 Sept 2026.
- Wholesale & retail margin
- 100.2p (54%)
- Fuel duty
- 53.0p (29%)
- VAT
- 30.7p (17%)
Duty is a flat government rate, the same at every station. “Wholesale & retail margin” is everything else — what the fuel itself, transport and the retailer's margin actually cost.
Where this comes from
Retailers are required to publish a price change within 30 minutes under the UK Government’s statutory price reporting scheme. We record every change as it is reported and never estimate a missing one — where we have no price, the page says so.