M6 Preston Bypass

Name
Preston Bypass
Opened
Route
Start point
Junction number at start: 29
Bamber Bridge
End point
Junction number at end: 32
Broughton

The Preston Bypass continued west from J32 to Broughton Interchange. That section is now part of M55.

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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