[7] The station is mentioned in The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and is supposedly named after the mother of an associate of the main villain.

It was the proposed meeting point for Marion and Keith (Rob Brydon) in Series 2 Episode 1 - The Services - of the comedy Marion and Geoff and features several times in the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, although scenes purportedly at Leigh Delamere were filmed at Cardiff Gate services in Wales.

In chapter 10 he describes it as follows: "Leigh Delamere service station is unquestionably the Xanadu of the M4.

Bring us, it seems to say, your weary and oppressed, your travel-sick children, your knackered and your bored stiff, and we will make them a strong cup of tea and a plate of scrambled eggs.

If only it had a cinema and some rudimentary form of democratic government, no-one with any sense would ever want to leave."