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Looking east near Aylesford. The M20 is a motorway in Kent, England.It follows on from the A20 at Swanley, meeting the M25, and continuing on to Folkestone, providing a link to the Channel Tunnel and the ports at Dover.
Folkestone services is a motorway service station on the M20 motorway at Westenhanger, seven miles from Folkestone in Kent, England. It was the second to be built on the motorway, and was opened on 9 January 2008. [citation needed] It is found off Junction 11; it contains a petrol station, parking for both cars and lorries, and a number of shops.
Motorways; A and B road zones; The A20 is a major road in south-east England, carrying traffic from London to Dover in Kent. ... Folkestone signed westbound only ...
A west-east motorway bypassing Medway, Sittingbourne and Faversham. Kent: 106,582 25.7 41.4 M20: A west-east motorway linking London to Folkestone and the Channel Tunnel. 120,348 50.6 81.4 M23: A north-south motorway linking London to Gatwick Airport and Crawley. Surrey, West Sussex: 110,574 15.9 25.6 M25: A ring road of London numbered ...
Folkestone Museum, which holds a collection of fossils, archaeological remains and paintings relocated to Folkestone Town Hall in spring 2017. [40] Folkestone has an annual Comic Convention each May organised by Planet Folkestone. The convention is a volunteer-run event which raising funds for local charities including Academy FM, East Kent ...
The M20 is the main road from the London Orbital Motorway (the M25), the world's largest and busiest ring road, [4] to the Port of Dover, the busiest ferry terminal in Europe, [5] and the Channel Tunnel. It runs south-east from the M25 near Swanley through Kent via the county town Maidstone, Ashford, and Folkestone to Dover. Most of the road is ...
Motorway service areas, also known as service stations, are places where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel, rest, or take refreshments. Some also incorporate or adjoin hotels. Only 20 motorway services in the UK remain in the ownership of the Department for Transport and let on 50-year leases to private operating companies. [1]
The vehicle shuttle terminals are at Cheriton (part of Folkestone) and Coquelles, and are connected to the English M20 and French A16 motorways respectively. Tunnelling commenced in 1988, and the tunnel began operating in 1994. [57] At the peak of construction 15,000 people were employed with daily expenditure over £3 million. [9]