South East England

M1

M1 Southern Extension

Why does the M1 come to a crashing halt in London?

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M1 Stirling Corner Link

M1 Stirling Corner Link

Have you ever noticed that the M1 has no junction 3?

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M4 Heathrow Spur

M4 Heathrow Spur

Heathrow Airport, a bus lane and a hot cross bun. What more could you ask for?

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M10

M10 St. Albans Bypass

Opened on the same day as the M1, now just yet another green line on a map...

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M12

M12 London - Essex

With tendancies to thrash about all over Essex, it's possibly the most confusing motorway to research in Britain.

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M13

M13 Blackwall - Maplin

Hang on a minute, a motorway that passes just south of Southend?

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M15

M15 Ringway 2

A secretive, unsigned motorway from the 1970s. As usual, part of so much more...

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M16

M16 Ringway 3

One of London's Ringways, now just an anonymous bit of road

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M26

M26 Wrotham Spur

A glorified sliproad, or an essential part of south-east England's motorway network?

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M27

M27 Portsmouth - Chichester

Why is the does the A27 east of Portsmouth have hard shoulders and four lanes each way?

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M31

M31 M3 - M4 Link Motorway

Cutting off the western M25 in a big way

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M41

M41 West Cross Route

A glorified number for a mile of motorway.

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M271

M271 Totton Spur

The "motorway school practical."

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M272

M272 Portswood Link

Down in deepest darkest Hampshire, a strange road awaits...

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M275

M275 Portsmouth Spur

Traffic lights, half-built junctions and daft signage. What a way to get to Portsmouth!

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A1(M)

A1(M) London - Tyneside Motorway

Just why is the A1(M) in lots of pieces?

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A2(M)

A2(M) Dover Radial Route

One of London's unbuilt routes that's ended up half-there...

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A2(M) Medway Motorway

A2(M) Medway Motorway

The motorway murdered by the Daily Telegraph!

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A3(M)

A3(M) Havant - Waterlooville

One of those rare beasties, a motorway that doesn't connect with anything.

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A4(M)

A4(M) Maidenhead Bypass

A bypass of Maidenhead, Berkshire that includes a small field trip...

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A14(M)

A14(M) Bar Hill - Alconbury

Huntingdonshire: Tiny county, even smaller motorway.

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A20(M)

A20(M) Maidstone Bypass

Maidstone, Kent's original motorway bypass

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A36(M)

A36(M) Ower Spur

Southampton's mythical motorway

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A40(M) Westway

A40(M) Westway

Through the rooftops of the West London suburbs

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A40(M) High Wycombe Bypass

A40(M) High Wycombe Bypass

The almost-but-not-quite motorway

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A41(M)

A41(M) Watford - Tring Motorway

Just a tiny blue line on old maps that should have been so much more...

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A50

A50 London - Yorkshire Motorway

There's a much, much more famous number for this motorway...

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A102(M) Blackwall Tunnel SA

A102(M) Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach

The Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach, which, not surprisingly, was south of London's Blackwall Tunnel. Bet you didn't guess that.

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A102(M) East Cross Route

A102(M) East Cross Route

Crossing East London, from Hackney Wick to Blackwall.

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A308(M)

A308(M) Maidenhead Spur

The shortest signed motorway in Great Britain. Is it any good though?

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A329(M)

A329(M) Reading - Wokingham

The last dual-carriageway motorway in Great Britain with no central barrier. And it's the washed-up remains of something bigger.

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A404(M)

A404(M) Maidenhead Bypass

Once part of the mighty M4, it doesn't even have junction numbers of its own.

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A423(M)

A423(M) Maidenhead Bypass

The third renumber out of four for the Maidenhead Bypass!

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A604(M)

A604(M) Bar Hill - Alconbury

One mile of unsigned goodness. Does it even exist?

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'A' Ring

'A' Ring, London

London's unbuilt motorway Inner Ring Road. Hyde Park to Tower Bridge and back again in one easy loop...

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Northern & Western Motorway

Northern and Western Motorway

Back in 1923, motorways were almost unheard of. We look at a motorway that might just have changed everything...

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Ringways for Beginners

Ringways for Beginners

Meet the largest, and potentially most costly, set of urban motorway proposals in the United Kingdom.

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