Studland Motor Road

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Not quite a motorway, but certainly a motor road. Decades before motorways existed in the UK, an odd legal precedent was set by the creation of a private road in Dorset that would only be open to motor traffic. It's still there today and is, in a sense, the original toll motorway. But it's not much like a motorway to drive...

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The history of the motor road and a selection of pictures are elsewhere on CBRD.
Studland Motor Road >

Video captured
13 June 2010
Running time
4'06"