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What our first week of fuel tracking reveals about filling up in Stone

A Little Bit of Stone recently launched a fuel price tracker, giving drivers a way to compare petrol and diesel prices across the town and at nearby forecourts.

Diesel Petrol Pump

You can find it on our Stone petrol and diesel prices page. Each Stone station also has its own price history and graphs, so you can see when prices changed and by how much.

Our first weekly review, covering Thursday 17 to Wednesday 23 September 2026, shows diesel prices rose at four of Stone’s five forecourts. Petrol rose at three stations, fell at Darlaston and remained unchanged at Walton roundabout Shell.

By the end of Wednesday, the cheapest diesel within the tracker’s 12-mile radius cost £4.95 less for a 55-litre fill than Stone’s cheapest option.


Petrol

StationEnd-of-week priceWeekly change
Darlaston168.9pDown 1p
Morrisons169.9pUp 1p
Fillybrook BP169.9pUp 1p
Fairway Esso169.9pUp 2p
Walton Shell174.9pUnchanged

Diesel

StationEnd-of-week priceWeekly change
Morrisons194.9pUp 3p
Darlaston195.9pUp 2p
Fillybrook BP197.9pUp 6p
Fairway Esso198.9pUp 7p
Walton Shell198.9pUnchanged

What changed at Stone’s forecourts

The tracker records every price change for standard petrol and diesel. To measure the week’s movement, we compared the price in place at the start of 17 September with the latest price recorded on 23 September.

All prices and changes are in pence per litre.

Fairway recorded the largest diesel increase, rising from 191.9p to 198.9p a litre. That added £3.85 to the cost of buying 55 litres. Its petrol price rose by 2p a litre.

Fillybrook’s diesel increased by 6p over the week, adding £3.30 to the same quantity. Its final increase came late on Wednesday evening, when diesel rose by 3p and petrol by 1p.

Morrisons also increased its diesel price on Wednesday evening, taking it to 194.9p. Across the week, its diesel rose by 3p and petrol by 1p a litre.

Darlaston reduced both fuels by 1p on Tuesday 22 September. That left its petrol cheaper than at the start of the week, although diesel still finished 2p higher after earlier increases.

Both prices at Walton roundabout Shell remained unchanged throughout the period.

What a 55-litre fill cost in Stone

Morrisons finished the week with Stone’s lowest diesel price at 194.9p a litre. Fairway and Walton Shell were both at 198.9p, making the difference between the cheapest and most expensive diesel £2.20 on 55 litres.

For petrol, Darlaston finished cheapest at 168.9p. Walton Shell’s 174.9p was the highest, a difference of £3.30 on the same quantity.

We use 55 litres for comparisons throughout the tracker. The amount you spend will depend on how much fuel you buy.

How Stone compared with nearby stations

At the end of Wednesday, the lowest diesel price within the tracker’s 12-mile radius was 185.9p a litre, shared by:

  • Tesco Hanley Extra
  • Tesco Longton Extra
  • Tesco Stoke-on-Trent Superstore
  • Sainsbury’s Stoke-on-Trent
  • Sainsbury’s Newcastle-under-Lyme

That was 9p a litre below Morrisons, Stone’s cheapest diesel option, making a 55-litre purchase £4.95 less. Compared with Fairway or Walton Shell, the difference was £7.15.

There were also differences between Morrisons sites. Diesel at Stoke and Goose Street finished at 191.9p, while Milehouse Lane was at 189.9p. Compared with Morrisons Stone, that meant differences of £1.65 and £2.75 respectively on 55 litres.

In Stafford, Tesco’s diesel was 193.9p, equivalent to 55p less on 55 litres than Morrisons Stone. Asda Stafford’s 194.7p was just 11p less on the same quantity.

For petrol, the gap between the cheapest options was much smaller. Asda Wolstanton’s 167.7p was just 1.2p below Darlaston, a difference of 66p on 55 litres.

These comparisons cover the fuel purchase itself. Any extra fuel used driving to another forecourt would reduce the saving.

All figures in this review reflect prices at the end of Wednesday 23 September. Visit our live petrol and diesel tracker for subsequent changes, and select a Stone station to explore its price history.diesel tracker for the latest figures, and select a Stone station to explore its price history.

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