M53 motorway
M53 motorway in the UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Operator: | Highways Agency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Start of the street: | Wallasey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of street: | Chester | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall length: | 30.4 km (18.9 mi ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
M53 at Storeton (photo 2009) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course of the road
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The M53 motorway ( English for, M53 ') is a little over 30 km long, Between 1972 and 1982 built, in its northern section to the car plant in Ellesmere Port, first as M531 designated motorway in England , on the Wirral Peninsula between the River Mersey and the River Dee from Wallasey in a predominantly south-southeast direction to the northeast outskirts of the city of Chester and then merges into the A55 road . The towns of Birkenhead , Bebington and Ellesmere Port are close to the motorway that crosses the M56 motorway .