M5 Cribbs Causeway - Avonmouth

Cribbs Causeway Avonmouth
Opened
Route
M5
Start point
17
Cribbs Causeway
End point
18
Lawrence Weston

Included the Avonmouth Spur, which was temporarily the southern end of the motorway.

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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Harry Yeadon

A civil engineer, working principally in the North West of England, responsible for many of the area's motorways.

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