M55 Preston Bypass

Preston Bypass
Opened
Current route
M55
Start point
M6 J32
Broughton
End point
1
Broughton
Original route
M6

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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