diff --git a/src/common/coreservices.ts b/src/common/coreservices.ts
index a7b8134b..8f0c0f04 100644
--- a/src/common/coreservices.ts
+++ b/src/common/coreservices.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  */
 /** for typedoc */
 import {IInjectable, Obj} from "./common";
+import { Disposable } from "../interface";
 
 export let notImplemented = (fnname: string) => () => {
   throw new Error(`${fnname}(): No coreservices implementation for UI-Router is loaded.`);
@@ -14,17 +15,9 @@ export let notImplemented = (fnname: string) => () => {
 let services: CoreServices = {
   $q: undefined,
   $injector: undefined,
-  location: <any> {},
-  locationConfig: <any> {},
   template: <any> {}
 };
 
-["setUrl", "path", "search", "hash", "onChange"]
-    .forEach(key => services.location[key] = notImplemented(key));
-
-["port", "protocol", "host", "baseHref", "html5Mode", "hashPrefix" ]
-    .forEach(key => services.locationConfig[key] = notImplemented(key));
-
 export interface $QLikeDeferred {
   resolve: (val?: any) => void;
   reject: (reason?: any) => void;
@@ -51,30 +44,25 @@ export interface $InjectorLike {
 export interface CoreServices {
   $q: $QLike;
   $injector: $InjectorLike;
-  /** Services related to getting or setting the browser location (url) */
-  location: LocationServices;
-  /** Retrieves configuration for how to construct a URL. */
-  locationConfig: LocationConfig;
   template: TemplateServices;
 }
 
-export interface LocationServices {
+export interface LocationServices extends Disposable {
   setUrl(newurl: string, replace?: boolean): void;
   path(): string;
   search(): { [key: string]: any };
   hash(): string;
   onChange(callback: Function): Function;
-  html5Mode(): boolean;
-  hashPrefix(): string;
-  hashPrefix(newprefix: string): string;
 }
 
-export interface LocationConfig {
+export interface LocationConfig extends Disposable {
   port(): number;
   protocol(): string;
   host(): string;
-
   baseHref(): string;
+  html5Mode(): boolean;
+  hashPrefix(): string;
+  hashPrefix(newprefix: string): string;
 }
 
 export interface TemplateServices {
diff --git a/src/vanilla/browserLocationConfig.ts b/src/vanilla/browserLocationConfig.ts
index 2f715c54..eb2dd9b3 100644
--- a/src/vanilla/browserLocationConfig.ts
+++ b/src/vanilla/browserLocationConfig.ts
@@ -9,20 +9,32 @@ import { LocationConfig } from "../common/coreservices";
 /** A `LocationConfig` that delegates to the browser's `location` object */
 export class BrowserLocationConfig implements LocationConfig {
   private _baseHref = undefined;
+  private _hashPrefix = "";
 
-  port() {
+  constructor(router?, private _isHtml5 = false) { }
+
+  port(): number {
     return parseInt(location.port);
   }
 
-  protocol () {
+  protocol(): string {
     return location.protocol;
   }
 
-  host() {
+  host(): string {
     return location.host;
   }
 
-  baseHref(href?: string) {
+  html5Mode(): boolean {
+    return this._isHtml5;
+  }
+
+  hashPrefix(): string;
+  hashPrefix(newprefix?: string): string {
+    return isDefined(newprefix) ? this._hashPrefix = newprefix : this._hashPrefix;
+  };
+
+  baseHref(href?: string): string {
     return isDefined(href) ? this._baseHref = href : this._baseHref || this.applyDocumentBaseHref();
   }
 
@@ -30,4 +42,6 @@ export class BrowserLocationConfig implements LocationConfig {
     let baseTags = document.getElementsByTagName("base");
     return this._baseHref = baseTags.length ? baseTags[0].href.substr(location.origin.length) : "";
   }
+
+  dispose() {}
 }
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diff --git a/src/vanilla/hashLocation.ts b/src/vanilla/hashLocation.ts
index b0f4f16f..e806e7cd 100644
--- a/src/vanilla/hashLocation.ts
+++ b/src/vanilla/hashLocation.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import { BrowserLocationConfig } from "./browserLocationConfig";
 /** A `LocationServices` that uses the browser hash "#" to get/set the current location */
 export class HashLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
   private _listeners: Function[] = [];
-  private _hashPrefix = "";
 
   hash() {
       return splitHash(trimHashVal(location.hash))[1];
@@ -37,17 +36,6 @@ export class HashLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
     return pushTo(this._listeners, () => window.removeEventListener('hashchange', cb));
   }
 
-  html5Mode() {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  hashPrefix(newprefix?: string): string {
-    if(isDefined(newprefix)) {
-      this._hashPrefix = newprefix;
-    }
-    return this._hashPrefix;
-  }
-
   dispose() {
     deregAll(this._listeners);
   }
@@ -55,4 +43,4 @@ export class HashLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
 
 /** A `UIRouterPlugin` uses the browser hash to get/set the current location */
 export const hashLocationPlugin: (router: UIRouter) => LocationPlugin =
-    locationPluginFactory('vanilla.hashBangLocation', HashLocationService, BrowserLocationConfig);
+    locationPluginFactory('vanilla.hashBangLocation', false, HashLocationService, BrowserLocationConfig);
diff --git a/src/vanilla/memoryLocation.ts b/src/vanilla/memoryLocation.ts
index d7ecbd50..f31ab788 100644
--- a/src/vanilla/memoryLocation.ts
+++ b/src/vanilla/memoryLocation.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import { isDefined } from "../common/index";
 import { LocationConfig, LocationServices } from "../common/coreservices";
 import { splitQuery, getParams, splitHash, locationPluginFactory } from "./utils";
-import { removeFrom, unnestR, deregAll } from "../common/common";
+import { removeFrom, unnestR, deregAll, noop } from "../common/common";
 import { UIRouter } from "../router";
 import { LocationPlugin } from "./interface";
 import { isArray } from "../common/predicates";
@@ -17,17 +17,20 @@ export class MemoryLocationConfig implements LocationConfig {
   _port = 80;
   _protocol = "http";
   _host = "localhost";
+  _hashPrefix = "";
 
   port = () => this._port;
   protocol = () => this._protocol;
   host = () => this._host;
   baseHref = () => this._baseHref;
+  html5Mode = () => false;
+  hashPrefix = (newval?) => isDefined(newval) ? this._hashPrefix = newval : this._hashPrefix;
+  dispose = noop;
 }
 
 /** A `LocationServices` that gets/sets the current location from an in-memory object */
 export class MemoryLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
   _listeners: Function[] = [];
-  _hashPrefix = "";
   _url = {
     path: '',
     search: {},
@@ -65,14 +68,6 @@ export class MemoryLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
     return this._url.search;
   }
 
-  html5Mode() {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  hashPrefix(newprefix?: string): string {
-    return isDefined(newprefix) ? this._hashPrefix = newprefix : this._hashPrefix;
-  }
-
   setUrl(url: string, replace: boolean = false) {
     if (isDefined(url)) {
       let path = splitHash(splitQuery(url)[0])[0];
@@ -98,4 +93,4 @@ export class MemoryLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
 
 /** A `UIRouterPlugin` that gets/sets the current location from an in-memory object */
 export const memoryLocationPlugin: (router: UIRouter) => LocationPlugin =
-    locationPluginFactory("vanilla.memoryLocation", MemoryLocationService, MemoryLocationConfig);
\ No newline at end of file
+    locationPluginFactory("vanilla.memoryLocation", false, MemoryLocationService, MemoryLocationConfig);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/vanilla/pushStateLocation.ts b/src/vanilla/pushStateLocation.ts
index cd2a4a73..ee349f02 100644
--- a/src/vanilla/pushStateLocation.ts
+++ b/src/vanilla/pushStateLocation.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * @module vanilla
  */ /** */
 import { isDefined } from "../common/index";
-import { LocationServices } from "../common/coreservices";
+import { LocationServices, LocationConfig } from "../common/coreservices";
 import { splitQuery, trimHashVal, getParams, locationPluginFactory } from "./utils";
 import { LocationPlugin } from "./interface";
 import { UIRouter } from "../router";
@@ -18,13 +18,14 @@ import { BrowserLocationConfig } from "./browserLocationConfig";
  */
 export class PushStateLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
   private _listeners: Function[] = [];
-  private _hashPrefix = "";
   private _location: Location;
   private _history: History;
+  private _config: LocationConfig;
 
-  constructor(public router: UIRouter) {
+  constructor(router: UIRouter) {
     this._location = location;
     this._history = history;
+    this._config = router.urlService.config;
   };
 
   hash() {
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ export class PushStateLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
   }
 
   path() {
-    let base = this.router.urlConfig.baseHref();
+    let base = this._config.baseHref();
     let path = this._location.pathname;
     let idx = path.indexOf(base);
     if (idx !== 0) throw new Error(`current url: ${path} does not start with <base> tag ${base}`);
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ export class PushStateLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
 
   setUrl(url: string, replace: boolean = false) {
     if (isDefined(url)) {
-      let fullUrl = this.router.urlConfig.baseHref() + url;
+      let fullUrl = this._config.baseHref() + url;
       if (replace) this._history.replaceState(null, null, fullUrl);
       else this._history.pushState(null, null, fullUrl);
     }
@@ -56,23 +57,12 @@ export class PushStateLocationService implements LocationServices, Disposable {
     return pushTo(this._listeners, () => window.removeEventListener("popstate", cb));
   }
 
-  html5Mode() {
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  hashPrefix(newprefix?: string): string {
-    if(isDefined(newprefix)) {
-      this._hashPrefix = newprefix;
-    }
-    return this._hashPrefix;
-  }
-
   dispose(router: UIRouter) {
     deregAll(this._listeners);
   }
-};
+}
 
 /** A `UIRouterPlugin` that gets/sets the current location using the browser's `location` and `history` apis */
 export const pushStateLocationPlugin: (router: UIRouter) => LocationPlugin =
-    locationPluginFactory("vanilla.pushStateLocation", PushStateLocationService, BrowserLocationConfig);
+    locationPluginFactory("vanilla.pushStateLocation", true, PushStateLocationService, BrowserLocationConfig);