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• MOTORWAY MADNESS ? M62, Warrington Lancashire England

  Published: 27th June 2010

  Motorway madness? If it wasn't for a couple of rampant rams and the toss of a coin, the history of the M62 could've been very different! We've been taking a look back at the origins of West Yorkshire's very own 'mountain motorway'...and found some startling facts! It's probably hard to believe as you zip along the M62 in air conditioned comfort that this road didn't even exist so very long ago! But, just four decades back there was very little here besides sheep, moorland and more sheep. Plenty of sheep! It was going to be quite some task to join the White Rose and Red Rose counties together with landscape like this contend with, but work began in earnest in 1966 to build this historic link. Before that, though, was the i

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• Priest Walks The M62. M62, Warrington Lancashire England

  Published: 24th June 2010

  Priest walks length of the M62   ALTHOUGH motorway anoraks may enjoy fruitful hours in the service station cafe discussing facts about the M62, those of us with interests outside the realms of tarmac and blue signs are unlikely to have given the route much thought. As one of the busiest roads in Britain, with around 100,000 cars passing through some sections each day, it is hardly a place that inspires a pleasant two-hour drive, let alone a two-month walk. But that was exactly what Rev John Davies had in mind when he decided to trek the entire 107 miles from Hull to Liverpool. During his unusual journey, the 45-year-old vicar, of Good Shepherd Church in West Derby, which serves the people of Norris Green and Croxteth, walked throu

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• Area M62, The Truth Is Out There! M62, Warrington Lancashire England

  Published: 24th June 2010

  UFO hunting in Area M62 Think UFO-watcher and the image that often springs to mind is a jobless, unshaven man with lank greasy hair. He will also have body odour that could fell an ox at 50 paces, and all the social airs and graces of a cripplingly shy librarian. But here, at a slightly down-at-heel Pontefract hotel just off the M62 in my native Yorkshire, that image is well and truly shattered. There are company directors, secretaries, policemen and building society managers all gathered in this mock-Tudor function room for Britain’s UFOlogists’ annual shindig. This is, truly, a close encounter of a Yorkshire kind – and these people certainly know their alien onions. Secret Ministry of Defence documents were relea

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• JUNCTIONS ON THE M62. M62, Warrington Lancashire England

  Published: 23rd June 2010

  Junction 4:Liverpool, Childwall, Edge Hill Junction 5:Wavertree, Huyton, Knotty Ash Junction 6:Whiston, Tarbock Junction 7:Widnes, Rainhill Junction 8:Burtonwood, Great Sankey Junction 9:Warrington, Winwick, Orford Service area:Burtonwood Services Junction 10:Interchange - no exits Junction 11:Risley Junction 12:Interchange - no exits Junction 18:Interchange - no exits Service area:Birch Services Junction 19:Heywood, Middleton Junction 20:Castleton, Rochdale Junction 21:Milnrow, Newhey Junction 22:Rishworth, Densaw, Moss Moor Junction 23:Huddersfield, Sowood Junction 24:Elland, Huddersfield, Halifax Junction 25:Liversedge, Brighouse, Mirfield Service area:Hartshead Moor Services Junction 26:Cleckheaton, Oaken

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• ENGLAND'S ONLY COAS-TO-COAST MOTORWAY. M62, Warrington Lancashire England

  Published: 23rd June 2010

      In the Thirties, planners imagined a magnificent road linking Liverpool to Hull. But the dream soured, as Joe Moran discovered   "Why don't we cross the city limit/And head on down the end of 62?" The Liverpool group, It's Immaterial, posed this question on "Driving Away From Home", a haunting road song that was a hit in the summer I sat my O-levels. The chorus warmly recommends driving along the M62 for "30 miles or more" (which seems like a long way when you're 16 and your family doesn't own a car). Twenty years on, driving along England's only coast-to-coast motorway no longer seems like an alluring alternative to exam revision. When the Queen officially op

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• Walking the M62. M62, Warrington Lancashire England

  Published: 23rd June 2010

  Walking the M62 I spent the whole of September and October 2007 walking the M62 motorway corridor, Hull back to Liverpool.This blog records my daily diary and reflections on the experience.You can also read all this and additional material in book form, also called Walking the M62 and available online. Thursday, November 22, 2007 Here's the book of the journey Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Off-line till Advent The journey over, I’m resting my feet - and also my blogging - for the month of November. I’m hoping that the break will give me some time to start to process this experience of walking the M62, and prepare me for my return to everyday work. So if you come here (or here) seeking fr

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