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The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle. It was the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the UK; [2] the first motorway in the country was the Preston Bypass, which later became part of the M6. [3] The motorway is 193 miles (311 km) long and was constructed in four ...
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 ...
The motorway was designed to be capable of handling vehicles at speeds of 70 mph (110 km/h), [5] although there was no speed limit on UK motorways until 1965. [12] Lancashire Police estimated that 2,300 cars were using the road each day within the first month of opening, which was considerably less than the road's capacity. [13]
Numbered roads in the UK are signed as M (Motorway), A, [12] or B [12] roads (legal "classification" varies between countries), as well as various categories of more minor roads: for internal purposes, local authorities may also use C, [13] D [citation needed] and U [13] (the letter standing for "Unclassified"); use of C and U numbers on signs is unusual but examples can be found in all four ...
England location map.svg; Author: UK motorways map (thick lines).svg: User:Dr Greg and User:Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey and OpenStreetMap data; England location map.svg: Spischot; derivative work: Dr Greg; Other versions: File:UK motorways map (thick lines).svg, with thicker darker lines, suitable for small thumbnails; File:UK ...
The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is a motorway in the United Kingdom running from west London to southwest Wales.The English section to the Severn Bridge was constructed between 1961 and 1971; the Welsh element was largely complete by 1980, though a non-motorway section around Briton Ferry bridge remained until 1993.
Motorways in the United Kingdom that no longer exist, due to renumbering, downgrading, or other reasons. Pages in category "Former motorways of the United Kingdom" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
English: The A1(M) motorway of Great Britain highlighted against the motorways of the United Kingdom in 2016. Includes one section under construction in 2016. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum.