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    The M61 is a motorway in North West England between Manchester and Preston, linking the M60 Manchester orbital motorway with the M6 motorway. It runs from...
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    Bridge just south of Preston, through major junctions with the M6 and M61 motorways, east past Darwen, Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley, Brierfield, Nelson...
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  • M61 or M-61 may refer to: In transportation: M61 motorway, a motorway in England M-61 (Michigan highway), a state highway in Michigan M61, a class of...
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    supplemented by the M61 as far as Manchester, with the M60 acting as a bypass around the city. South of Manchester, there is no true motorway replacement for...
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    the M61 Kearsley Spur and Southbound Link Roads to the A580 Eastbound) (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) Order (SI 2011/1638) The M61 Motorway (Junctions...
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    restored and converted into a private dwelling that is visible from the M61 motorway. The Church of England School built in 1861, opposite St Bartholomew's...
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    The M60 motorway, Manchester Ring Motorway or Manchester Outer Ring Road is an orbital motorway in North West England. Built over a 40-year period, it...
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    The M58 is a motorway passing through Merseyside and Lancashire, terminating in Greater Manchester. It is 12 miles (19.3 km) long and provides a link between...
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    when their Peugeot 206 car was found abandoned and on fire next to the M61 motorway in Bolton, Greater Manchester. Evidence was discovered that Marten had...
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    Rivington services (category M61 motorway service stations)
    Rivington services is a motorway service area in Anderton, Lancashire, England, situated between junctions 6 and 8 of the M61 (there is no junction 7)...
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    Manchester. It lies at the southern edge of the West Pennine Moors with the M61 motorway passing close to the south and west. At the 2011 Census, Horwich had...
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    The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle. It was the first inter-urban motorway to be...
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    Restriction and Prohibition of Traffic) Order (SI 2010/513) The M61 Motorway (Entry Slip Road to M61 Northbound from A580 Westbound) (Temporary Prohibition of...
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    This list of motorways in the United Kingdom is a complete list of motorways in the United Kingdom. Note that the numbering scheme used for Great Britain...
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    comedy Phoenix Nights. Farnworth is north of junctions 3 and 4 of the M61 motorway. The main roads run through the town are the A666 (Farnworth and Kearsley...
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    Horwich and Aspull. The M61 motorway, part of the national motorway network between the M60/M62 (Manchester orbital motorway) and the M6 (Preston) was...
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    A smart motorway (formerly managed motorway and active traffic management), also known in Scotland as an intelligent transport system, is a section of...
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    The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands with the South West. It runs from junction 8 of the M6 at West Bromwich near Birmingham to Exeter...
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    served by the A6, A59, A582, A583, A584 and, to the very south-east, the M61 motorway. To the east of the county are the A59, A6119, A677, A679, A666, A680...
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    by the A6 Roman road. It is located near to junctions 6 and 8 of the M61 motorway and junction 27 of the M6; Charnock Richard services are sited within...
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    approximately parallel to the M1 motorway; between Manchester and Preston, it is close to the M6 and M61 motorways; and from Preston to its northern...
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    is a spur to and from the M61 motorway through the town centre to Astley Bridge, Egerton, Darwen and Blackburn. The M61 has three dedicated junctions...
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    between Greater Manchester and Lancashire. The river is crossed by the M61 motorway near Rivington services, and then turns to the north-west to reach the...
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    2009/3196) The M61 Motorway (Junction 6 Southbound Dedicated Exit Slip Road) (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) Order (SI 2009/3197) The M5 Motorway (Junctions...
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     2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 245. "History of the M61". M61 Motorway. Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 27 October...
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    and Preston. It has a junction with the B6227 towards Rivington. The M61 motorway passes the eastern fringe of the village. Adlington railway station is...
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    The M2 is a 26-mile-long (42 km) long motorway in Kent, England, and was built to bypass a section of the A2 road in Kent, which goes through the Medway...
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    road just south of Bamber Bridge, near the junction of the M6, M65 and M61 motorways. As is hinted at by the way the place name of Stretton recurs along...
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  • since 2010. Harper Green is located north of junctions 3 and 4 of the M61 motorway. The only main road through Harper Green is the B6199 (Plodder Lane)...
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  • North of England and adjacent to the M1, M6 and M61 were identified as marginal constituencies where "Motorway man" could influence the outcome of the general...
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