M25 Bignell’s Corner - Potters Bar

Bignell’s Corner Potters Bar
Opened
Current route
M25
Start point
23
Bignell’s Corner
End point
24
Potters Bar
Original route
A1178

This section had been open as A1178 since approximately 1976.

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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