In England they call a rest area a lay-by.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I turned the car into a lay-by and cut the engine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temptation] Reference

I pulled into a lay-by which fortunately was empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Lies Gloria Mundy]

I parked the car in the lay-by behind the horse-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Cert]

'I'm just thinking,' said Rebus, 'about that lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]

The car goes off, leaving her car still in the lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]

At that lay-by, what was she hanging around there for? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]

She must have telephoned him from the box in the lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]

'Mrs Jack's BMW was parked in a lay-by,' explained Rebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]

Not the same car returning to the lay-by, but another car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]

Luckily, there was a lay-by coming up for Eva to skid into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Bloom] Reference

A police car was parked in a lay-by at the side of the lane.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Darker Place]

They found the MAN truck abandoned in a lay-by near Harrogate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Scroll]

So they argued, and he stormed off, leaving her in the lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]

Here too is a lay-by with a mobile café catering to the bikers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Voice] Reference

It had to be reasonably close to the safest route to the lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jigsaw Man]

Dey gave us Christmas holidays, an '4th of July, an' lay-by time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

Some minutes after the last check, Petersen pulled into a lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Partisans]

They wus allowed holidays Christmas and at lay-by time, an 'they wus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

Shelley indicated and began slowing down as they approached a lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's October, 1956.] Reference

It was Bert, the man in charge of the horse in the lay-by on Maidenhead Thicket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Cert]

Anna parked in the small lay-by at the side of Mrs Eatwells cottage in Oxfordshire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadly Intent] Reference

A little way along there, I stopped the car in a lay-by and switched off the engine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Money]

The officers watched from a lay-by and targeted only vehicles leaving our local pub.    From Wordnik.com.  [A question of attitude] Reference

He could avoid adding to prison overcrowding by quietly serving his sentence in a lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shannon Matthews « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

On her way home she stopped for a cup of coffee at a truckers 'lay-by, where she met Housel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Days Without Food Or Water] Reference

Stuck on the hard shoulder, I took the girls out of the car and was walking towards a lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Humanity Shines Through...] Reference

Five hundred yards after the house he found a little gravelly lay-by beneath some beech trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

(In California, my favorite lay-by is on the road from Carpenteria to Ojai overlooking Lake Casitas.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathryn Ireland: Suggestions For A Recession Romance] Reference

Four hundred yards beyond the gates I pulled into a convenient lay-by switched off engine and lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satan Bug]

The BRDM, warned by Nikolai to take particular care, had pulled off the road into a farmworkers 'lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Clash]

De hours of work on de farm wus from sun to sun wid no time 'cept at Christmas and at lay-by time, 4th of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

Time to figure the forces required to bring the Minister to a lay-by behind some bushes at the end of a runway.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Game]

At the bottom of the hill Donny pulled into the lay-by near the bread van, and we got out to wait beside its driver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

As shown in Figure 5, the lay-by lane just south of Atlantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantic Yards Report] Reference

He drove it towards Anne Corcoran's townland and parked it in a lay-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [IrishExaminer.com] Reference

And when the road opens why not sell barbequed morsels from the lay-by?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In October 2007 Ms Pilkington, a single mother of two, drove to a lay-by with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference