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Vierwielen wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 17:32 How about this section of the Fosse Way (appropriately named "Roman Road") somewhere between Coventry and Leicester. Sorry, I don't have the "A" number for the road - I don't believe that the Romans numbered their roads that way. :)

The area to the right of this road (ie the north-west) was frontier territory and this road ran from Isca Dumnoniorum (aka Exeter) to Lindum (aka Lincoln) and was the main road for moving troops from one part of the frontier to the other, particularly during the first century AD.
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Jesmond Rd in Cradlewell in Newcastle, once choked with traffic on the A1058, now like a quiet side street.
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This is a BOGOF (Buy one, get one free) I think. The road that goes straight ahead was once the A3. (The A3 now passes under you through the Hindhead Tunnel). I think that the path to the right was once the old London - Portsmouth road which was superceded in 1828 when the road that became the A3 was built through the Devil's Punchbowl.
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These sections of the Warwick Road in Solihull used to be part of the A41 until the Solihull By-Pass and M42 diverted the A41 and turned them into dead ends:

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I’m sure I heard that Craigs Road in Edinburgh was once the southern end of the A9. It’s a fairly quiet, suburban, residential street in Corstorphine.
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I'm amazed that this road was the A303 until 1969. It's probably a little overgrown now but it can't have been much wider back then. The bridge dates from 1851.
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Two for one. Fosse Way and ex-A303. Ilchester. So was important for movements in the 2nd Century and then again until the later half of the 20th Century. Now if only the town expanded and they put a housing estate on the right, it would properly fit the OP bill.
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Northumberland St in Newcastle was once the A1 and is now a pedestrianised shopping street. Hard to imagine now this was once full of local and long distance traffic until the A1 was re routed to the east( the pre CME ring road of the early seventies) and the CME removed most long distance traffic from the city centre.
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Before the A66 was built the main road from Darlington and Stockton to Middlesbrough and the Docks as the A67 along Newport Road and Corporation parts of which are now pedestrianised shopping areas.

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Market Street in Manchester was still open for traffic when the Arndale Centre was built on one side, though one way only. I'm not sure if it was still signed as part the A6. The now vanished Cannon Street was used by traffic in the other direction.
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Actually, looking again, I don't think I even posted the best example in Ilchester. Here is also ex-A303/Fosse Way, cut off by the newer A37 route. Still the original housing though and not quite a modern estate. The search continues.
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jabbaboy wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 21:39 I'll be here all day linking them all so the old A9 in Carrbridge, Aviemore, Newtonmore, Kingussie, Dalwhinnie, Kincraig, Pitlochry Dunkeld plus the rest of the bypassed settlements.

Also Haltwhistle (twice), Hayden Bridge, Brampton, Corbridge, Hexham and the rest on the A69.

Finally, Park Road in Chester Le Street - https://goo.gl/maps/Pz4vu3i4SZc18dMo9 on the old A1 is a good one aswell which is actually a bypass of the even older A1 which used Newcastle Road - https://goo.gl/maps/gYh95nmrvDjPFfk38

Washington Village is also another good example, being the old A182 which is now miles West - https://goo.gl/maps/k2HbF5SHyoUzQ2c57

There's loads around here though tbh, could spend hours listing them, A695 between Stocksfield and Blaydon, the A19 and roads all over County Durham having a lot of them.
As you've touched on it, the course of the old A69 through Greenhead merits a mention. Sealed off at one end at the top of Greenhead Bank and at the other end, at the level crossing (though it remains in use for pedestrians).
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Norstead Place and This part of Alton Road and Portsmouth Road (name is a big giveaway) were part of the A308.
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This used to be the A361 - https://goo.gl/maps/aDdUYyj3Dqzyd1cD9

As was this the opposite side of the current A422 - https://goo.gl/maps/cxETnN4hWNqCxEPy5
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Until just over 40 years ago, this was the A602 and part of the route between Luton and Stevenage:

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FtoE wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 15:17 I’m sure I heard that Craigs Road in Edinburgh was once the southern end of the A9. It’s a fairly quiet, suburban, residential street in Corstorphine.
It wasn't, as far as I can tell - the A9 went down Turnhouse Road. You can see its original course on SABRE Maps. If it had followed Craigs Road there'd have been a very strange dog-leg where the street ends on Drum Brae South.
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Chris5156 wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:03
FtoE wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 15:17 I’m sure I heard that Craigs Road in Edinburgh was once the southern end of the A9. It’s a fairly quiet, suburban, residential street in Corstorphine.
It wasn't, as far as I can tell - the A9 went down Turnhouse Road. You can see its original course on SABRE Maps. If it had followed Craigs Road there'd have been a very strange dog-leg where the street ends on Drum Brae South.
Indeed the notable maybe-just-on-topic thing about the old A9 there is the other side of the airport severance. A big gyratory thing and wide bridge over the Gogar Burn leading to...a gated emergency access to the runway.
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The upper part of Lowther St in Carlisle, almost devoid of traffic where the Civic Centre is and a dead end these days where it meets Hardwicke Circus. Hard to believe this was the main route out of Carlisle to Scotland until 1971.
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Patrick Harper wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 15:46 I'm amazed that this road was the A303 until 1969. It's probably a little overgrown now but it can't have been much wider back then. The bridge dates from 1851.
Long distance traffic had the alternative of the A30 which dated back to the coaching days, if not earlier. Also, the section of the A30 close to Blackbushe Airfield was closed on and off during WWII because it crossed over a runway.
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