M5 Collumpton Bypass

Name
Collumpton Bypass
Opened
Current route
Start point
Junction number at start: 27
Tiverton Parkway
End point
Junction number at end: 28
Collumpton
Original route

The length from Five Bridges to J28 was originally the A38 Collumpton Bypass and was upgraded as part of this scheme.

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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