M61 motorway the filming of "The Services", a pilot episode for the Farnworth-born comedian Peter Kay series "That Peter Kay Thing", a spoof documentary of a day in the life of the services staff. Data from driver location signs are used to provide distance information. M61 motorway The M61 is a motorway in North West England. It runs from the M60 motorway northwest of Manchester and heads northwest past Bolton and Chorley to join the M6 just north of the junction between the M6 and M65 motorways to the south of Preston. Perhaps the most distinguishing section of the M61 is to
England government body responsible for overseeing transport in England. There are many motorways in England, and many other trunk roads, such as the A1 Great North Road, which runs through eastern England from London to Newcastle (much of this section is motorway) and onward to the Scottish border. The longest motorway in England is the M6, from Rugby through the North West up to the Anglo-Scottish border, a distance of . Other major routes include: the M1 from London to Leeds, the M25 which encircles London, the M60 which encircles Manchester, the M4 from London to South Wales, the M62 from