M5 Cribbs Causeway - Avonmouth

Name
Cribbs Causeway Avonmouth
Opened
Route
Start point
Junction number at start: 17
Cribbs Causeway
End point
Junction number at end: 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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What's new

The sunlit uplands

On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.

Grand openings

Our much-loved Opening Booklets section has two new publications for you to explore, and we’re making some overdue changes to make them easier to find and easier to read.

Silver bullet

The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?

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