A6070 Lancaster Bypass

Name
Lancaster Bypass
Opened
Current route
Start point
Junction number at start: M6 J35
Carnforth
End point
Junction number at end: 35A
Keer Level Roundabout
Original route
Other numbers held
Motorway downgraded

This scheme included the M6 between J33 and J35, and initially the whole scheme was M6.

Road scheme and chronology data is courtesy SABRE (where much of it was gathered by member Ross Spur), with additional data from the UK Motorway Archive, the Scottish Roads Archive and the Northern Ireland Roads Site.

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The road that made no sense

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