M5 motorway

M5 motorway Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0

Motorway in England

The M5 is a motorway in England. It runs south-west from the M6 at junction 8, north-west of Birmingham to Exeter in Devon. The M5 runs through Sandwell Valley and its early sections form part of the Birmingham Motorway Box, after which it passes Worcester, Cheltenham, and Gloucester. It intersects with the M4 motorway at Almondsbury Interchange north of Bristol, then serves Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater, Taunton, and Tiverton, before terminating at junction 31 to the south of Exeter. At a total length of 163 miles, the M5 is the fourth-longest motorway in the UK.

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