M5 (north)
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We look at major UK driving routes and reveal everything you need to know
YOU MIGHT SAY that this is the road to holiday heaven in the UK, connecting, as it does, the north, north Wales and the Midlands via the M6, and south Wales, London and the east via the M4 to the mild weather, moors, areas of outstanding natural beauty and coastal resorts of England’s beautiful south-west.
As such, it gets extremely busy during the holiday seasons. Not that it isn’t busy at other times, because it also connects Britain’s second-largest city, Birmingham, with the port of Bristol, linking the industrial heartlands of the Midlands to Avonmouth and south Wales.
The road follows the route of the A38 quite closely, although unlike the A38,…
