[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