Michael Parry, of W Parry and Sons, who have run the garage since 1947, blame a lower and lower margin and fewer customers for the closure – plus a two-tier petrol price structure which favours supermarket garages and the big-name petrol outlets.
"We have been paying as much as 4p a litre more than people like Esso and Shell," he said. The garage had been supplied by UK Oil, now CPC.
"Back in the petrol shortage and fuel blockades when we kept going everyone wanted to know us, of course, but now all those extra customers have dropped away again.
"It has not been an easy decision to make, taking something out of the village like this. But in reality we have been putting it off for several years now. We have finally decided to bite the bullet."
Mr Parry said the haulage contractor and agricultural machinery side of the business would remain in operation after the pumps shut – the repairs and servicing side had already been closed down earlier in the year.
The concern had been kept going by the family since just after the Second World War and was a village institution.
"I believe it was a garage long before we took it over – but I don't know exactly how old it is," said Mr Parry.