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A short motorway leg
The M40 between junctions 1A and 8 is among the easier stretches of motorway in the south. It carries less freight than the M1 and fewer commuters than the M4. Outside the Denham approach, a car holds a steady pace for the whole leg.
The exception is the Stokenchurch cutting, where the road climbs through the Chilterns and slows in heavy rain or low cloud. Winter fog sits in that gap more often than the surrounding country would suggest, and the chauffeur allows for it rather than pushing through it.
Junction 8 at Wheatley is the exit for the city. The A40 continues into Headington and past the London Road, and the run from the slip road to the ring road takes ten minutes on a good morning and twenty-five at the school run.









