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A397

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A397
Location Map ( geo)
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From:  Portsmouth (SU654046)
To:  Cosham (SU656056)
Distance:  0.7 miles (1.1 km)
Meets:  A3, A27
Former Number(s):  A3
Primary Destinations
Highway Authorities

Portsmouth

Traditional Counties

Hampshire

Route outline (key)
A397 Portsmouth – Cosham
This article is about the current A397, a short road in Portsmouth.
For the original, a road linking Uffculme, near Tiverton, to Tiverton itself, see A397 (Tiverton - Uffculme)
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Looking south on the A397 towards the railway bridge

The A397 is the former A3 through Cosham, Hampshire. Plans to extend it north through Waterlooville to reach Junction 1 of the A3(M) were never executed.

Beginning at the Portsbridge Roundabout there's a short bit of dual carriageway, before a junction with the original road through Cosham. Over the railway the road is a reasonably wide S2, but it widens out to D2 on returning to ground level. Almost immediately, there's a roundabout, and then another short bit of D2 before the road ends at Spur Road Roundabout.

parallel A roads in Cosham on OS 7th Series mapping

The history of this route is debatable. The original A3 through Cosham typically appears on old OS mapping as an A-road along with the newer Northern Road (currently A397 but apparently the A3 from the 1930s at the latest) running parallel.




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Looking South along Northern Road - Geograph - 2395196.jpgNorthern Road in 2011 - Geograph - 2355196.jpgNorthern Road in 1985 - Geograph - 2294875.jpgNorthern part of Northern Road - Geograph - 2395177.jpgBlue footbridge in Northern Road (1) - Geograph - 2395111.jpg
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