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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

Farewell GLC lights

Why am I all nostalgic about some street lights being replaced?

Silver bullet

The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?

Skid Risk, Accident, Fog

For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.

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