Colyford Filling Station is a Grade II listed building. It was built in 1927-8, at the instigation of a Mr W H Davey, farmer and entrepreneur, who identified the need for a filling station on this section of the road between Lyme Regis and Sidmouth.
The Colyford Filling Station provided over seventy years of service, with Mr Davey remaining in place until the 1970s. In the 1930s T E Lawrence is said regularly to have filled his Brough Superior motorcycle here, Colyford lying between Plymouth, where he was serving with the RAF, and his house in Dorset. The filling station ceased to operate as a petrol station in 2001 but the pumps still remain.
Parking is available at the front of the cafe. The owners of the cafe have kindly given permission for the placement of the cache outside their property and staff are aware that it is hidden there! .