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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