M5 Cribbs Causeway - Avonmouth

Cribbs Causeway Avonmouth

Opened 28 August 1969

Cribbs Causeway

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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