M60 motorway

The **M60**, also called the **Manchester Ring Motorway** or the **Manchester Outer Ring Road**, is a motorway. It is a ring road around Manchester, England, as well as other towns nearby. The M60 is about  long. The M60 was created in 2000 by using old parts of the M62, M66, and all of the M63.

## Junctions

|colspan="5"|**M60 motorway junctions**|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|mile|km|Anti-clockwise exits (B Carriageway)|Junction|Clockwise exits (A Carriageway)||||
|0.0|0.0|Stockport (West & Centre) <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5145**</span>|J1|Stockport (West) <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5145**</span>||||
|1.5|2.4|Cheadle <span style="color:black; background:white">**A560**</span>|J2|_No access (on-slip only)_||||
|||Cheadle, Wilmslow <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A34**</span>|J3|Cheadle, Wilmslow <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A34**</span>||||
|||_No access (on-slip only)_|J4|Chester, Warrington, Manchester , Birmingham <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M6)**</span> <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M56**</span>||||
|4.5|7.3|Chester, Manchester , Birmingham <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M6)**</span> <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A5103**</span> <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M56)**</span>|J5|Manchester (C), Didsbury <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A5103**</span>||||
|6.0|9.7|Sale <span style="color:black; background:white">**A6144**</span>|J6|Sale <span style="color:black; background:white">**A6144**</span>||||
|6.8|10.9|Manchester (C), Stretford, Altrincham <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A56**</span>|J7|Altrincham, Manchester (C), Stretford <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A56**</span>||||
|rowspan=2|7.5|rowspan=2|12.0|_End of variable speed limit_|rowspan=2|J8|Carrington <span style="color:black; background:white">**A6144**</span>|
|Carrington <span style="color:black; background:white">**A6144**</span>|_Start of variable speed limit_|||||||
|9.3|15.0|Trafford Park, <span style="color:white; background:#794400">**Trafford Centre**</span> <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A5081**</span>|J9|Urmston <span style="color:black; background:white">**B5158**</span>, Trafford Park <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A5081**</span>||||
|10.3|16.5|Trafford Park, Urmston <span style="color:black; background:white">**B5214**</span>|J10|Trafford Park <span style="color:black; background:white">**B5214**</span>||||
|11.4|18.4|Eccles, Irlam <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A57**</span>|J11|Irlam, Eccles <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A57**</span>||||
|12.2|19.7|Manchester (C), Salford <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M602**</span> <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M6)**</span>, Liverpool <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M62**</span>|J12|Liverpool, Warrington <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M62**</span> Manchester (C), Salford <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M602**</span>||||
|13.0|21.0|Swinton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A572**</span>, Worsley <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A575**</span>|J13|Worsley, Leigh <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A575**</span>, Swinton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A572**</span>||||
|14.1|22.7|St. Helens, Leigh <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A580**</span>|J14|_No access (on-slip only)_||||
|||<span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M6 North)**</span>, Preston, Wigan, Bolton <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M61**</span>|J15|Preston, Wigan, Bolton <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M61**</span>||||
|16.3|26.2|Salford, Kearsley <span style="color:black; background:white">**A666**</span>|J16|_No access (on-slip only)_||||
|18.5|29.7|Manchester City Centre, Prestwich, Whitefield <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A56**</span>|J17|Whitefield, Prestwich <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A56**</span>||||
|rowspan=2|19.8|rowspan=2|31.8|_Start of variable speed limit_|rowspan=2|J18 TOTSO|Burnley, Bury <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M66**</span> Leeds, Huddersfield <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M62**</span>|
|Leeds <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M62**</span> Bury, Burnley, Blackburn <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M66**</span>|_End of variable speed limit_|||||||
|21.0|33.8|Middleton <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A576**</span>|J19|Manchester City Centre, Middleton <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A576**</span>||||
|22.6|36.4|_No access (on-slip only)_|J20|Middleton, Blackley <span style="color:black; background:white">**A664**</span>||||
|24.7|39.8|Rochdale, <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(A627(M))**</span>, Chadderton <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**(A663)**</span>|J21|Manchester City Centre, Chadderton <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**(A663)**</span>||||
|26.3|42.3|Manchester City Centre, Oldham <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A62**</span>|J22|Oldham <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A62**</span>||||
|28.6|46.0|Ashton-under-Lyne <span style="color:black; background:white">**A6140**</span>|J23|Ashton-under-Lyne <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A635**</span>||||
|30.6|49.3|Manchester City Centre, Denton <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A57**</span>, Hyde, Sheffield <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M67)**</span>|J24|Denton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A57**</span>, Hyde, Sheffield <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M67)**</span> Manchester City Centre <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A57**</span>||||
|||Bredbury <span style="color:black; background:white">**A560**</span>|J25|Bredbury <span style="color:black; background:white">**A560**</span>||||
|||_No access_|J26|Stockport (E&C) <span style="color:black; background:white">**A560**</span>||||
|||Stockport (East) <span style="color:black; background:white">**A560**</span>|J27|_No access (on-slip only)_||||
|36.1|58.1|colspan="3"|_Motorway continues to J1_|||||

## Infobox (road)

- **country**: GBR
- **type**: M
- **route**: 60
- **alternate name**: Manchester Outer Ring Road
- **maint**: Highways England
- **photo**: M60 at Cutler Hill, Failsworth.jpg
- **photo notes**: Looking south at Cutler Hill near Failsworth
- **length mi**: 36.1
- **length round**: 0
- **length notes**: are concurrent with the M62 motorway
- **established**: 1998
- **history**: Opened: 1960 (as M62 motorway, M62), 1971 (Middleton, Greater Manchester, Middleton Link), 1974 (as M63 motorway, M63)
Renumbered: 1998
Completed: 2000
- **orbital**: Manchester
- **junction**:
J4 → M56 motorway

/
J12 → M62 motorway/M602 motorway

J15 → M61 motorway

/
J18 → M62 motorway/M66 motorway

J24 → M67 motorway
- **map**: M60 motorway (Great Britain) map.svg
- **e-road**: and
- **counties**: Greater Manchester
- **destinations**: Manchester, Stockport, Trafford Park, Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham
- **previous type**: M
- **next type**: M
- **previous route**: 58
- **next route**: 61