M26 Ditton Bypass

Ditton Bypass

Opened 7 December 1971

Chronology Map for 1971

Current route

M26

Start point

Wrotham Heath

End point

M20 J3

Addington

Original route

M20

This scheme continued east to M20 junction 5, and was originally all part of the M20.

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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