Drivers searching for fuel in remote areas are often saved by independently owned rural filling stations, whose owners and communities are as diverse as the landscapes they live in.

Andrew and Colleen Johnson discovered their little piece of Wales one sunny August bank holiday.

“We moved here nine years ago from Hampshire,” says Andrew. “I was a driving instructor and special constable and my wife worked in an insurance broker.”

He points at the nearby hill. “We came round the hairpin bend and just went: ‘Wow’. Almost, I think, we’d made up our minds before we’d even arrived.”