Original: Diverging from the A5, the motorway takes a more northerly route through the East Midlands, via Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham to Sheffield, where the M18 splits from the M1 at junction 32 to head to Doncaster.
Simplified: It passes near Leicester, Loughborough and Nottingham to Sheffield. Here the M18 splits from the M1 at Junction 32.