Motorway Mayhem M27 J2 - West Wellow Services Traditional Cache
Motorway Mayhem M27 J2 - West Wellow Services
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Part of the series of motorway drive by caches intended to break up tedious motorway journeys. Test tube cache, located near to the West Wellow Services. There is a gap in the central reservation just north of the cache, where it is possible to make a U-turn. Traffic travels very fast past the layby. Please keep hold of dogs & children at GZ.
Route Running approximately parallel both to the coast of the Solent and to the A27, the M27 starts as an eastwards continuation of the A31 from Bournemouth and Poole, meets the A36 from Salisbury, crosses the Wessex Main Line railway, and then meets the M271 to central Southampton. After the M271, the road meets the M3 as it passes to the north of Southampton, passes Southampton Airport, then runs alongside the West Coastway Line as it heads south-east towards Fareham. It then runs alongside the northern outskirts of Fareham, briefly with a fourth climbing lane in either direction, before its junction with the M275 to Portsmouth. At this point the motorway ends, becoming the A27. Unfulfilled plans It has been said that the M27 was intended as a motorway connecting south coast towns from Penzance to Ramsgate. However the only proposal of a route similar to that was by the Institution of Highway Engineers in 1936. Road developments in the New Forest are also restricted due to its National Park status. The M272 was meant to go from Junction 5 through Portswood to the centre of Southampton, joining with an extended M271 (that would have followed a similar route to today's A33). The M272 was instead built (in much reduced form) as the A335 Thomas Lewis Way. Junction 6 was never built - there were plans for a motorway spur (probably to be numbered M273) connecting the M27 to the centre of the Townhill Park area of Southampton. Nearby attractions Junction 1 is about 1 mile (1.6 km) from The Rufus Stone, where King William II, also known as William Rufus, was killed in what may have been a hunting accident in the year 1100. FTF: Joint honours go to Mario McTavish & SeekingSalters.
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