The motorway that disappeared
It's one of the UK's oldest motorways - it was joint second to open - but it ceased to exist in 2009 when widening works on the M1 disconnected it from the motorway network. The former M10 is now part of the A414.
This video takes you back to 11 October 2003, to an M1 that hadn't been widened yet and a little spur that was still called the M10. So much has changed that the first half of this journey is unrecognisable, but the second half has seen so few changes that it's still recognisably a motorway from 1959.
See also our guide to the former M10.
With thanks to Steven Jukes for driving!
Map extract from OS Opendata 1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster under the Open Government Licence 3.0.
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