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Bluewater shopping centre has two dualled GSJs which aren't even coloured yellow on the OS 1:50,000, let alone classified.

The approach roads to Stansted airport, built in the early 1990s, were very impressive unclassified partly dual carriageway roads until they became part of the A120 when the Stansted-Braintree improvement was built.
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Team Valley in Gateshead about a mile of D2 through the trading estate.
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There are a significant number in Liverpool suburbs, notably in the north-east of the city, that were built in the 1930s with new tramways down the middle, through major new housing areas. Utting Avenue and Muirhead Avenue are just two examples. The trams went in the 1950s but the unclassified alignments continue as major distributors within these areas.
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Burns wrote:I found this on the outskirts of Motherwell. I'm assuming it's part of a plan that was never completed though.
That was Ravenscraig steelworks. There was a plan for a new town to be built there at one point, I'm not sure what the current plans for the site are.
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Paspie wrote:Stevenage has quite a few of them, most notably here.

Isn't that on the A1070 or A1155 or something like that....
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rhyds wrote:I can't find it on streetview, but the Epynt range has a mapped and signed D1 access (with crossovers through the hedge).
It's a proper unclassified Dual. See attatched photo and note the only crossover to have recently been adorned with no-entry signage. This is an unusual view of this unusual dual carriageway taken from several miles away so sorry about the poor quality.
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Another one is the fairly new Queen Elizabeth Way, extending south from near the A66 at Stockton across the River Tees to Ingleby Barwick.
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This is possibly the only one in Ireland, except it does have an L number like every other "unclassified" road does - and is very short. Its also the only L road to have a junction with a motorway!
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Burns wrote:I found this on the outskirts of Motherwell. I'm assuming it's part of a plan that was never completed though.
That road is going to be part of the new massive Ravenscraig housing development and leisure complex. See this site: http://www.ravenscraig.co.uk/
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AAndy wrote:
rhyds wrote:I can't find it on streetview, but the Epynt range has a mapped and signed D1 access (with crossovers through the hedge).
It's a proper unclassified Dual. See attatched photo and note the only crossover to have recently been adorned with no-entry signage. This is an unusual view of this unusual dual carriageway taken from several miles away so sorry about the poor quality.
Thanks for the heads up! Here is the start of the section on streetview.
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AAndy wrote:It's a proper unclassified Dual. See attatched photo and note the only crossover to have recently been adorned with no-entry signage. This is an unusual view of this unusual dual carriageway taken from several miles away so sorry about the poor quality.
That's so odd. What's the story behind it?

Is it as quiet as it looks?
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The road is the main access to the Epynt military range. I assume it's built as a dual to make shifting heavy military kit easier.
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Nwallace wrote:There's a few round Dundee,
Balgowan Avenue: http://g.co/maps/mmq6z

and a few that will look like they are DV on the map but aren't...

Logie Avenue: http://g.co/maps/m8ycg
Craigie Avenue and others in the vicinity
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I think Calder Bridge to Sellafield has been mentioned in other threads but not yet in this one.

I could name a few urban ones too. They're not difficult to find where Landranger maps cover cities, and we've had a thread on dual carriageway style urban avenues.
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wrinkly wrote:I think Calder Bridge to Sellafield has been mentioned in other threads but not yet in this one.

I could name a few urban ones too. They're not difficult to find where Landranger maps cover cities, and we've had a thread on dual carriageway style urban avenues.
I was thinking more of the rural bypassed ones when I started the thread.
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Beecdale Road, Nottingham.
A6514 end
B6004/B690 end
ra with Hollington Road (unclassified DC)
also, zoom out and you'll see Wigman Road, which is also u/c DC
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Castle Hills Fm. in Bickenhill, W. Mids., boasts a strtch of U/C, unmetalled D1
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Dargan Road, Belfast?

As per NIRS's page http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/roads/dar ... ening.html

And the associated road between the A2 Shore Road and Fortwilliam junction. Quite fun when empty!
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I think one of the most rural dual carriageways must be the road entering the Kent village of Eccles from the south/east. My Google Maps is playing up so I can't provide a link :(
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Here's a good one the extension of the A3290 into the Thames valley Business Park at Reading.

Thames valley Park access road
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