A blue sign with a diagram showing a branch off the road ahead and the following text.
Forward destinations: Preston.
Exit destinations: Leyland; B5256; (A49).
Junction number: 28.
Leyland might be the most easily forgotten of the UK's 1960s New Towns. It was known, in its day, as the Central Lancashire New Town and never really came together as a single place with its own identity - Leyland is just the most recognisable town that was absorbed into its loose form.