What are your bizarre motorway landmarks?

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If we're on the M6, we have to wave to Beech Cliffe Sawmills near Stoke.

M1 at Leicester - the Boden warehouse !
And on the North circular,before it closed down, the place that sold wood veneers and the fab 'veneer of the week' sign

SueW - I see those chineys and think of my friend over in Derbyshire !

On M5:

60 foot high Willow Man (which I always say is the "Wicker Man" and DP tuts because I am stooopid)

Enormous model Dinosaur

Two model Camels

Big SMEEEEELLLL somewhere around Junction 21

There's loads of stuff on the M8 - wire horse, grass pyramids which until recently had red sheep grazing on them, red brick heads, big horn which allegedly does actually play music. They're all meant to be landmarks though so probably don't count.

I always go "ooh tripods" when we pass some pylons that look like erm, tripods about half way along because my dad always did this during the 80s when the tv series was on.

Wixker man and camel are very close to my heart LOL as a bridgy girl and carnivalite by birth! .

for us, its those, the severn bridge and the changing light obelisk near weston, we have to palce bets on what colour it will be, DS1 always claims he said the right colour....

The Soup Tower near Ibrox and the 'Teletubby Trumpet' on M8

MP to the locals it IS wicker man! Not a soul I know calls it willow man!

Oh yes, and when we're coming into Glasgow near Riddrie I always notice the height of the gasometres because my mother used to comment on them without fail. "Ooh the gasometres are very low today". Am such a fascinating companion on a road trip.

Oh yes the gasometers.

Near Glasgow the girder heads.

Glasgow to Edinburgh the metal horse and teletubby land, speaker thing.

I see bok theif mentioned them .

We used to do the trip from Berlin to southern Germany regularly, and always looked for the old border control points - one on the edge of west Berlin, one on the former GDR border. Some of it was/is still standing. There is also a disused, gloriously 70s service station just on the west Berlin side.

There used to be a Plant depot in Bridgwater, we ahd a whole song along the line of 'mummy's scoops mummy's scoops (not ds1's scoops).... used to be a HUGE routine lOL

Do you know if the speaker thing actually makes a sound (obv not that you'd hear at 70 miles an hour or thereabouts)? Or is this a tale I've been fed? - am notoriously gullible about such things.

Aparantly this is the top ten

Spaghetti Junction (M6)
River Severn Bridge (M48)
RAC Bescot (M6)
Wicker Man (M5)
Stirling Castle (M9)
QEII Bridge (M25)
Radcliffe on Soar Power Station (M1)
Fort Dunlop (M6)
The Medway Viaduct (M2)
Stott Hall Farm (M62)

M8 Horse

Livingston roundabout art

The red sheep were the best. Unfortunately they've been sheared now. I hope the farmer does other colours

The Big Heids, look like they are made or girders.

the cows on top of the dairy at Hanworth just off the M3

I know that yellow elephant at Codford too! I grew up in Salis and did Salisbury to Bristol every other weekend for most of my childhood so know the A36 too well.

On the M4, Membury used to mean half way between London and Bristol

On the M1 Todington meant I wasn't far from work

On the M1 Days Services meaant 20 mins from stopping driving

On the M5 Exeter meant an hour from home

There's a weird white-tiled pointy church just off the M53 that my mum always called the 'spaceship' church when we were kids - that means I'm 10 mins away from my parents' house!

My mum was one for noticing gasometer levels as well... why??

M40 it's the pork pie at Burton Dassett!