M26 Ditton Bypass

Name
Ditton Bypass
Opened
Current route
Start point
Junction number at start: 2A
Wrotham Heath
End point
Junction number at end: M20 J3
Addington
Original route

This scheme continued east to M20 junction 5, and was originally all part of the 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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