M50 motorway (Great Britain)

The M50 is a 22-mile/35-km-long dual two-lane motorway in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire, England. It is sometimes referred to as the Ross Spur, connecting, as it does, the M5 motorway to a point close to the Herefordshire town of Ross-on-Wye, where it joins the A40 road continuing westward into Wales.RouteThe M50 runs ENE-WSW between: junction 8 of the M5 motorway, NNE of Tewkesbury on the Gloucestershire-Worcestershire border; anda junction with the dualled A449 / A40 / A465 ("Heads of the Valleys Road") taking traffic on into South Wales. Leaving the M5 at junction 8, it passes north of Tewkesbury then south of Ledbury. Between junctions 1 and 2 chiefly for these towns respectively, it crosses the River Severn on the Queenhill Bridge and Viaduct over the flood plain. After passing north of Newent, the motorway reaches its terminus, junction 4.