text: 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 .