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 first motorway opened in 1958. The first road restricted to motor traffic, on the other hand, opened in 1923...
