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What driving route do you take to Alton Towers once you leave the motorway?

Fun fact, every large interchange on primary trunk routes in the country has an official name. Some of these are quite classy and cool in places, and on A-Roads they are often displayed on the road signs themselves. One by me for instance is called 'Airport Roundabout' because it's at the foot of an old airfield (now a housing estate), but they're normally named after the nearest settlement, no matter how tiny, and sometimes pubs or historic landmarks next to the site, which makes them quite cool (I think anyway). Very few people have heard of Catbrain or Friar's Wash, but there is a Catbrain and Friar's Wash interchange.

A look on Sabre shows that the name of the A50 Uttoxexter bypass and B5030 junction is probably called 'Ashbourne Road Roundabout'. But Google maps will actually refer to it, very uncreatively, as 'McDonalds Roundabout', and will call it out as such when you approach it.
 
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