M53 Ellesmere Port Motorway

Ellesmere Port Motorway
Opened
Current route
M53
Start point
5
Hooton
End point
10
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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