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Location mapA very tiny motorway, but it manages a free-flowing trumpet interchange with the M180, which is more than that road can muster when it hits the M18 Its interchange with the M180 is actually several miles from anywhere at all.

The M181 is unusual in that it is one of a small number of tiny motorway spurs that (for no apparent reason) was awarded its own number. It, and roads like the M10, are seemingly no more important than quite a lot of motorway spurs with no number.

Factfile

Start Bottesford Moor (M180)
Finish Scunthorpe (A18)
Passes None
Length 2 miles
Terminates None
Spurs None
Meets None

Images

Views of the M181 from on and off the road. If you have a photo to contribute, contact me.

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Southbound, approaching the trumpet interchange, the road splits - M180 wherever you go. To see the rest of the M181, imagine a two lane motorway running in a straight line on flat land and you've got it. I wonder why there's no hard shoulder northbound through this junction?
Photo by Steven Jukes

Construction Timeline

When the various parts of the M181 were built, listed in chronological order.

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1978 Entire Motorway

Exit List

All the junctions and destinations along the route.

Junction   Southbound               Northbound
(M180 J3)   Grimsby
Humber Bridge
(A15)
M180 Image
 





M180
  NORTH
Trumpet
 





M180
  N/A







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Doncaster
(M18 Image)
M180 Image

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  2 miles, 2 lanes Image   Image 2 miles, 2 lanes
N/A









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A18









Roundabout
A1077
SOUTH
  A18









  Keadby
Gunness
A18

Crosby
Barton
A1077

Scunthorpe
A18
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With thanks to Joseph for information in this section.