M55 Preston Bypass

Name
Preston Bypass
Opened
Current route
Start point
Junction number at start: M6 J32
Broughton
End point
Junction number at end: 1
Broughton
Original route

The Preston Bypass included the M6 between junctions 29 and 32, and originally the whole scheme was M6.

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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