Cuerden embankment, view north, 12 December 1997
Cuerden embankment, view north (see all photos of the same view)
The two motorways crossing this view are both carried on huge embankments that have almost completely reshaped the valley. The nearest faces Cuerden Valley Park and in the years since the motorway has opened has been covered with trees.
Date
12 December 1997
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
North
Roads visible
M6 motorway
What's new
The Ringways Map is here
The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.
Red, white and blue
Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?
The sunlit uplands
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
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