The M23 motorway is a major road in England. The motorway runs from London to Crawley in West Sussex. Originally, it was planned to start the motorway from inner London, but difficulties over finding an acceptable route mean that it goes no further north than Hooley, Surrey just south of Coulsdon. From there, the road runs south for seventeen miles, past Redhill and Gatwick Airport to end on the A23 road just south of Crawley. Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... A motorway (in United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and some other Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and a classification. ... St. ... Map sources for Crawley at grid reference TQ2736 Crawley is a town and local government district in West Sussex, England. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... Grid reference: TQ287564 Hooley is a small village in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. ... Grid reference: TQ298596 Coulsdon is a place in the London Borough of Croydon on the Brighton Road (A23). ... Redhill is a town in the Reigate and Banstead borough of Surrey, England and is part of the London commuter belt. ... Gatwick Airport (IATA Airport Code: LGW, ICAO Airport Code: EGKK) is Londons second airport and the second largest airport in the UK after Heathrow. ... The A23 road is a major road in England. ...
The motorway was constructed between 1972 and 1975 contemporaneously with the first southern section of the M25 from Godstone to Reigate (M25 junctions 6 to 8).
The M23 was planned as a means of relieving congestion on the A23 through Streatham, Thornton Heath, Purley and Coulsdon in south London and was originally intended to terminate in Streatham Vale at a junction with the London Ringways Plan's Ringway 2 (the intended replacement of the South Circular Road (A205)).
The motorway was widened to ten lanes between junctions 12 and 14, and twelve lanes between junctions 14 and 15, in November 2005.
While this is more a structural than a logical issue, at junction 5 near Sevenoaks continuing around the M25 requires the driver to follow the slip roads, as the anticlockwise carriageway continues as the M26 to the east (towards the M20) and the clockwise as the A21 towards the south coast.
The distance of the motorway from central London (taken as Charing Cross) varies from approximately 12 miles (20 km) near Potters Bar to 20 miles (32 km) near Byfleet.
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