[richardhod]

My father was present, as a boy, at the opening of the Lancaster bypass, which was the first section of motorway constructed in in Britain, followed by the Preston bypass. He was always very careful to remind people how the M6 was the first motorway in Britain and not the M1.

[123pie123]

but reading the M1 section

"Sticklers will point out that the Preston Bypass was the first motorway, and they're right. It was part of the M6, but only eight miles long. Opened just a year later, and initially covering 60 miles, the M1 was the first long distance motorway in the UK."

[richardhod]

The first sections of motorway... Definitions definitions

[richardhod]

I did get the order wrong. Must have been the Preston bypass that was first, which I double checked