Not being familiar with the area, I can't find anywhere called 'Overdale' close enough to make sense of the current route, but more intriguing is the reference to A5358. Now clearly, as it is listed under the B5358 it cannot be a misprint for that. I then thought maybe it referred to the A538, but maps and signage show that little B road as the B5091.
Which is the southern end of the current B5358 and an unclassified road (Mill Lane), which are mapped and signed (on GSV since 2009) as the B5358 / unclassified
Does this mean that at one time part of the B5358 was upgraded to be an A road, before reverting to a B road, or is it a complete red herring?
Rob. My mission is to travel every road and visit every town, village and hamlet in the British Isles.
I don't like thinking about how badly I am doing.
The B5358 is a contrasting road in north Cheshire. The number first came to the area in the late 1920s.
The road starts at traffic lights on the A523 in the fields to the north of Prestbury. It heads northwest and immediately goes under the Macclesfield to Stockport railway line before winding across open country. After a few miles of fields and isolated buildings a roundabout is reached on the A5102. There's a
Looking at page 192 of the document you reference, and knowing those roads quite well, I am tempted to say that the reference to A5358 is a 'typo', and should have been B5358. The characteristics of the B5358 are significantly different to the other roads (all A roads) on the list.I first drove on Bonnis Hall Lane in 1973 and to be quite honest I couldn't tell you what its designation was at the time. But my gut reaction is to say that it is too small of a road to be classed as an A road.
The interaction with A road status is mentioned in the article in that the very northern section (through Handforth village) of what is now designated as B5358 was originally the A34, prior to the Handforth By Pass being built.
A small section of the route known as Dean Row Road has been upgraded in more recent years, the half mile or so to the north west of the Shell garage, the quality of that section stands at a very different level to Bonnis Hall Lane.
I'm struggling to make any connection with Overdale.
I've looked through every OS sheet I can easily lay my hands on, and ever since the 1929-30 MoT map, it's marked as B5358 - albeit with only the section north of Wilmslow appearing on that map, but it appears in full on the 1932 Ten Mile Road Map.
Both mapping is available on SABRE Maps.
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It is at the eastern end of Dean Row Road at the junction of the current B5358 Handforth Road / Bow Road. Not that it gives any further answer to the A5358 conundrum.
The B5358 is a contrasting road in north Cheshire. The number first came to the area in the late 1920s.
The road starts at traffic lights on the A523 in the fields to the north of Prestbury. It heads northwest and immediately goes under the Macclesfield to Stockport railway line before winding across open country. After a few miles of fields and isolated buildings a roundabout is reached on the A5102. There's a