M53 Ellesmere Port Motorway

Ellesmere Port Motorway

Opened 22 December 1975

Chronology Map for 1975

Current route

M53

Start point

Hooton

End point

Stanlow Halt

Original route

M531

This scheme upgraded the existing A5032 Hooton Industrial Road to 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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