Can you tell me if the M1 was the first ever motorway to be built?
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in england. Yes.
I don't know either - but they can't be in numerical order because the M25 was built after the M40 - hmmmm lets see if we get an answer.
No, Britain's oldest bit of motorway is the M6 outside Preston, believe it or not!
i think the m1 is the first ,its called the M1 becouse it takes u from london all the way up north u also have the A1 witch isnt a motor way and the idea was taken from that the cut down the travel time buy building a motorway!!!!!! well thats my theory.
The first one was actually by reston,it was 6 miles of the M6,(i knew that before looking it up)the next one was the Chiswick flyover at the M4,then it was a 68 mile stretch of the M1.
So now you know heres a site for your interesting hobby.
http://www.iht.org/motorway/stats.htm.
The M1 was indeed the first motorway in the UK, the first stretches were opened in the early '60's, don't know exactly when, and it had no speed limit until the late '60's.
The M6 was Britain's first motorway, or at least part of it was. It wasn't called the M6 then though. The M1 is called the M1 cause it follows sort of the same route and connects the same major towns as the A1. The M40 is called that because it was originally built to bypass the busiest sections of the A40. If you want to know anything more about Britain's exciting road numbering then this geek can tell you:
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/
The Preston by-pass was the first stretch of Motorway built in the U.K.
They are numbered, basically, after the original `A` road that they followed, hence M1 follows A1, M4 follows A4 etc.road numbers in England and Wales radiate from London, north is A1 then clockwise around to A6. All road numbers that start or are deemed to start in the segments formed by the radiating lines of roads begin with the appropriate number. For example A408 begins in the sector between A4 and A5 and A10 in the A1 to A2 sector and so on and so forth.
A7 ,A8 and A9 are in Scotland.
Gosh, that was not easy to describe !
The first stretch of motorway bult in England was in Preston and is now the M6
Get on with it and give Jimmer the prize.
A great answer with a good reference.
I remember our old Morris Oxford topping 82mph downhill on it just after opening!
no the first was part of the now m6 it was around the preston area in the noth west of england
What he said!
yes in England
The M6 at Preston was the first motorway to be built it was then called the Preston by-pass i know this because i live there.
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