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Chigwell
MSO Home - Unbuilt Services - Chigwell
Factfile:
Motorway: M40
Junctions: Between J4 and J5
Location: Essex IG7
Other names: none
Date planned: 1977-1980
The M11, like many other motorways, was meant to head much further into London then it actually does - some ten miles in this case. The story of Chigwell services is a fairly simple one: had the road been built to its full length then these services would have been needed, but as the bottom end of it was never built, they're not. The unbuilt extension also explains why the M11 'starts' at J4, a junction with a large gap in the middle of it.
It's all part of the London Ringways, a plan which is covered in great detail over on CBRD
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Today, the site forms a police control depot and an emergency turn-around point for authorised vehicles. Birchanger Green is now the M11's only service station.
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