M180 motorway

M180
Route information
Part of E22
Maintained by Highways England
Length	25.5 mi (41.0 km)
Existed	1977–present
History	Constructed 1977–79
Major junctions
From	Stainforth
Major intersections	M18 motorway M181 motorway
To	Elsham
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Primary destinations	Scunthorpe
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones
← M90 → M181

The M180 is a 25.5-mile (41 km) motorway in eastern England, starting at junction 5 on the M18 motorway in Hatfield, within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and terminating at Barnetby, Lincolnshire, some 10 miles (16 km) from the port of Immingham and 14 miles (23 km) from the port of Grimsby. The A180 road continues to the east for Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham. Scunthorpe, Lincoln, Hull (via the Humber Bridge), Brigg, Bawtry and the Isle of Axholme can be accessed using the motorway. Humberside and Doncaster Sheffield international airports, and the Killingholme, Humber and Lindsey oil refineries are close to the M180. The road forms part of the unsigned Euroroute E22 and is the main route along the south bank of the Humber Estuary. At 25 miles long it is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom to carry a three digit number and one of just two major motorways (the other being the M621) in the UK to carry a three digit number.

History

Plan of the M180 and A180

Planning and construction

The motorway bypass around Brigg was discussed for many years, but the Flixborough explosion gave it more importance, and was built three years later in 1977 as the second section of the motorway. At this time the A15 ran through Hibaldstow and Redbourne to Brigg, and the junction with the motorway was at Castlethorpe Corner, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the current A15 junction on the line of the Roman Ermine Street. The initial, and somewhat diminutive section of the motorway was the short-lived A18(M) also known as the Tudworth Link, which connected the roundabout junction with the M18 to the A18/A614. The easterly A18(M) sliproad is still used, though the original roundabout at junction 1 has now been replaced by a bridge close to Tudworth Hall Farm. The last section to be built was the Trent viaduct, opened in October 1979 by Kenneth Clarke, despite being 43 weeks late on account of strikes and bad weather.

The motorway is built to dual three-lane standard for most of its duration (aside from a short dual two-lane section past Scunthorpe), and is quite straight and flat.

The M180 has its own spur – the M181. While the M180 has to make do with a roundabout junction with the M18, its spur has a large, freeflowing trumpet interchange. At the start of the M180 are the Doncaster North services, owned by Moto.Doncaster North

A180 extension

It was extended in the 1980s to trunk-road standard as the A180 which is a two lane dual carriageway which continues on to Grimsby and Cleethorpes. In its early planning stages, it was to be named the A18.

The £18 million 6-mile (9.7 km) section from Brigg to Ulceby (A160) was opened on 29 March 1983 by Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, and the £21 million 7-mile (11 km) section from Ulceby to Grimsby opened in late 1983.

Junctions

County	Location	mi	km	Junction	Destinations	Notes
South Yorkshire	Thorne	0	0	—	M18  - Doncaster, Sheffield, Thorne
		1.7	1.0	1	A18  - Doncaster, Scunthorpe A614 - Thorne	No Westbound exit or Eastbound entrance
Lincolnshire	—	7.3	11.8	2	A161  - Belton, Ealand
	Scunthorpe	12.1	19.4	3	M181  - Scunthorpe
		18.7	30.1	4	A15  - Lincoln, Peterborough A18 - Keelby, Brigg
	—	25.4	40.9	5	A15  - Hull A18 - Scunthorpe, Brigg A180 - Grimsby
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access

*Ceremonial Counties

Coordinate list

External links

Template:Attached KML/M180 motorway

KML is from Wikidata

• Pathetic Motorways – M180
• UK Motorway Archive.