M20 Ditton Bypass

Name
Ditton Bypass
Opened
Route
Start point
Junction number at start: 3
Addington
End point
Junction number at end: 5
Aylesford

This scheme included the present M26 between junction 2A and the M20, and was all at that time part of M20.

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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