![]() The early M1 had no speed limits, crash barriers, or lighting, and had soft shoulders rather than hard. The M1 was Britain's first full-length motorway and opened in 1959. The first section of motorway was the Preston Bypass in Lancashire, now part of the M6 motorway, which opened in 1958. Lord Montagu formed a company to build a 'motorway like road' from London to Birmingham in 1923, but it was a further 26 years before the Special Roads Act 1949 was passed, which allowed for the construction of roads limited to specific vehicle classifications, and in the 1950s, the country's first motorways were given the government go-ahead. There had been plans before the Second World War for a motorway network in the United Kingdom. The southern end was extended in 1977 and the northern end was extended in 1999. ![]() Most of the motorway was opened between 19. The motorway is 193 miles (311 km) long and was constructed in four phases. It was the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the UK the first motorway in the country was the Preston Bypass, which later became part of the M6. The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle. Greater London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
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