Welcome to Roads.org.uk!

M56

North Cheshire Motorway

Cheadle to Chester

The M56 is sometimes rather poetically described as the "North Cheshire motorway", and runs from Greater Manchester to Chester, with connections to the Wirral and North Wales.

Routes

M56

Looking out for number one 04 October 2022

Markerposts are meant to start at one end of a road and count the kilometres to the other. But things are never that simple.

Routes

M1 M3 M4 M6 M6 Toll M11 M18 M23 M26 M27 M40 M55 M56 M74 M271 A1 A1(M) A3 A23 A35 A74(M)

What's new

London’s other forgotten motorways

We’ve spent years documenting the unbuilt urban motorway network planned for London. Today we’re unveiling more new routes that have never been seen before!

The middle of nowhere

A national system of road numbers radiating from a central point suggests there is… well, a central point. But if you go looking for it you’ll find it doesn’t exist.

Not so Smart

There have been rumours for months. Now the announcement has been made - “all new Smart Motorways scrapped”. What does this mean and who are the winners?

Share this page

Have you seen...

New Medway Viaducts

Taken over the course of two years, from 2002 to 2003, these sixteen images chart the construction of two new bridges alongside the M2 Medway Viaduct.