M6 motorway

M6 motorway is the longest motorway in England, at 232 miles long. It links the M1 motorway at Catthorpe in Leicestershire in the south, to the Guards Mill interchange in Cumberland, where the road continues as the A74(M) motorway to Scotland. A major road in the Midlands and North West of England, it serves several major cities, most notably Birmingham, as well as Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent and Wolverhampton. The first section of M6 to open, and aslo the first length of motorway in Britain, was the bypass of Preston in 1958. Other major settlements on the M6 include (from north to south) Carlisle, Lancaster, Wigan, Warrington, Stafford and Rugby. It also, via adjoining motorways such as the M56, M61 and M62, serves the major south Lancashire towns such as Liverpool and Manchester.