Preston By-pass
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preston-by-pass-169-16248524
title:
Preston By-pass
text:
The Preston Bypass was the United Kingdom's first motorway, opened in 1958. It was designed and engineered by Lancashire County Council surveyor James Drake as part of a larger initiative to create a north-south motorway network that would later form part of the M6 motorway. The original 8+1⁄4-mile (13.3 km) motorway ran around the east side of Preston between Bamber Bridge and Broughton and crossed over the River Ribble at Samlesbury at the M6 Junction 31. Planning started in 1937, despite no l
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description:
United Kingdom's first motorway
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_By-pass
date created:
2012-06-22T18:33:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T16:37:02Z
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