M53 motorway

The **M53**, or **Mid-Wirral Motorway**, is a motorway in North West England. It connects the A55 near Chester with the Kingsway Tunnel by Liverpool. The motorway is about  long.

## Junctions

|colspan="6"|**M53 motorway junctions**||||||||
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|mile|km|Northbound exits (B carriageway)|Junction|Southbound exits (A carriageway)|||||
|0.0|0.0|_End of motorway Road continues as_ <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**Wallasey Tunnel**</span> _towards Liverpool_|rowspan=3|J1|Birkenhead, New Brighton, Wallasey <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A5139**</span> <span style="color:black; background:white">**(A554)**</span> _Non-motorway traffic_||||
|||Birkenhead  <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A5139**</span>|_Start of motorway_||||||
|||Wallasey, Birkenhead <span style="color:black; background:white">**A554**</span>|||||||
|||_End of motorway_ West Kirby <span style="color:black; background:white">**A551**</span> <span style="color:black; background:white">**(B5139)**</span> Moreton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A551**</span>, Hoylake <span style="color:black; background:white">**(A553)**</span>|rowspan=2|J2A|_Start of motorway (Moreton Spur)_||||
|||Upton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A551**</span>|||||||
|6.5|10.5|Hoylake, West Kirby <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(A551)**</span>|J2|Hoylake, West Kirby <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(A551)**</span>|||||
|8.6|13.8|Birkenhead <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A552**</span>|J3|Birkenhead, Heswall <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A552**</span>|||||
|11.7|18.8|Clatterbridge, Heswall, Bebington <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5137**</span>|J4|Bebington, Bromborough, Clatterbridge, Neston <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5137**</span>|||||
|15.8|25.4|Birkenhead, Queensferry <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A41**</span>|J5|NORTH WALES, Queensferry, Eastham <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A41**</span>|||||
|rowspan=2|16.2|rowspan=2|26.1|style=background:skyblue|_Entering Merseyside_|rowspan=2|J6|Vauxhall (Cars Only), Eastham Oil Terminal|
|Vauxhall (Cars Only), Eastham Oil Terminal|style=background:skyblue|_Entering Cheshire_|||||||
|17.5|28.2|Overpool, Whitby, North Road Industrial Estate <span style="color:black; background:white">**B5132**</span>|J7|Overpool, Whitby, North Road Industrial Estate <span style="color:black; background:white">**B5132**</span>|||||
|18.3|29.5|Netherpool and Rossmore Industrial Estates, Docks|J8|Netherpool and Rossmore Industrial Estates, Docks|||||
|19.1|30.7|Ellesmere Port (Centre), <span style="color:white; background:#794400">**Boat Museum**</span> <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5032**</span>|J9|Ellesmere Port (Centre), Stanlow, <span style="color:white; background:#794400">**Boat Museum**</span> <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5032**</span>|||||
|20.9|33.7|Queensferry, Stanlow <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5117**</span>|J10|Queensferry, Stanlow <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5117**</span>|||||
|21.6|34.8|Runcorn, Liverpool , Warrington, <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M6)**</span>, Manchester <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M56**</span>|J11|Runcorn, Warrington, <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M6)**</span>, Manchester <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M56**</span>|||||
|24.5|39.5|_Start of motorway_|rowspan=2|J12|Chester <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A56**</span>||||
|24.9|40.1|Chester, Helsby <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A56**</span> _Non-motorway traffic_|_End of motorway Road continues as_ <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A55**</span> _towards North Wales_||||||

## Infobox (road)

- **country**: GBR
- **type**: M
- **route**: 53
- **length mi**: 18.9
- **direction a**: North
- **direction b**: South
- **terminus a**: Bidston
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- **counties**: Merseyside, Cheshire
- **destinations**: Wallasey
Birkenhead
Ellesmere Port
Chester
- **terminus b**: Hoole Village
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- **previous type**: M
- **next type**: M
- **previous route**: 50
- **previous dab**: Great Britain
- **next route**: 54
- **established**: 1972
- **history**: Opened: 1972
Completed: 1982
- **junction**:
J11 → M56 motorway
- **map**: M53 motorway (Great Britain) map.svg
- **maint**: Highways England
- **photo**: M53, Storeton 130909.JPG
- **photo notes**: Looking north near Storeton