Braintree

The cheapest unleaded in town currently starts near 151p per litre. A few outlying forecourts price well above the typical local level, so the average is a better guide here than the extremes.

The supermarket sites, including Sainsburys, tend to set the floor for prices here. Supermarkets account for 1 of the 9 stations here, with branded and independent sites making up the remainder.

Shell around Shell Whitecourt has been setting the cheapest unleaded price locally of late. Several of the busier sites sit along Coggeshall Road and Rayne Road, so you can check them against each other without leaving your usual route.

Unleaded prices around Braintree sit broadly in line with the rest of East of England. Diesel averages around 178p per litre across the stations listed for Braintree.

Everything within about 8 km of the centre is included, so edge-of-town and retail park sites appear alongside the central forecourts. Prices in Braintree can move mid-week as well as at weekends, so the ordering above is worth a glance even if you always use the same forecourt.

The table below carries the exact live figures per station, and alerts can flag a drop at the forecourts you actually use.