M6 Preston Bypass

Preston Bypass
Opened
Route
M6
Start point
29
Bamber Bridge
End point
32
Broughton

The Preston Bypass continued west from J32 to Broughton Interchange. That section is now part of M55.

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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