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multiraider2 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 23:29
Then this might be what you are after.
Former main road. Check
Not a pedestrianised high street. Check.
New residential development grown up all around the former main road. Check.
I give you Bridport Road, Poundbury. Ex-A35 in the countryside west of Dorchester. It's not "cut off" but I don't know if that was an essential. It's certainly not looking like a very important ex main road and you would have to divert around the building in front of you in this shot.
Yeah, I can't believe I didn't think of that as I've been there, the only issue is that it's still a through road and kind of a main one for the traffic in Poundbury.
Funny story I took my work van around there because I was driving from Sherbourne to Bridport, turns out we don't cover that area.
Main road traffic, local horse-drawn agricultural wagons, pedestrians between the two halves of the village.
We stayed at The Haycock next to the old bridge a couple of years back, a very nice old pile. Earlier this year we stayed at The Sibson lnn close to the 'new' bridges & that's a pleasant place too.
ajuk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 23:48
Yeah, I can't believe I didn't think of that as I've been there, the only issue is that it's still a through road and kind of a main one for the traffic in Poundbury.
ajuk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 23:48
Yeah, I can't believe I didn't think of that as I've been there, the only issue is that it's still a through road and kind of a main one for the traffic in Poundbury.
You are strict!
It's use as a through route has been discouraged since Middle Farm Way opened and further made difficult since the coffee shop was placed in the middle so making traffic slow to nearly a stop to be able to go around and proceed - I would say it is certainly not a main route and so counts.
This might be what you're looking for, Great Colmore Street in Birmingham. It was originally part of the A4167 which ran around the south of the city centre form Five Ways to (roughly) the Bull Ring. In the 1960s work started on that section of Middle Ring Road, leaving Great Colmore Street bypassed. Typical late 1960s housing development followed.
Mart Street in Hawick looks fairly unassuming, but the A7 once ran this course.
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ajuk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 23:00
Yes, I said it was rare, but I've come across 3.
This is probably rather closer to what you are after. In South Shields, it seems that the now-pedestrianised dead-end King Street was once the northernmost stretch of A19.
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Various streets in Berwick-upon-Tweed comprise the 1922 course of the A1. Including Bridge Street, Hide Hill, Union Brae and indeed the single-file Old Bridge across the Tweed.
"I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child"
- Richard Nixon
I think there are split-carriageway sections on the old A74 where one carriageway, usually the northbound, has been reclassified as B7076, while the opposite carriageway has, if not removed following construction of the motorway, been unclassified and is now used exclusively for purposes such as farm lanes and residential streets.
"I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child"
- Richard Nixon
ajuk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 22:06
Look at the examples I gave.
Maybe you could actually provide some GSV links?
This is Willow Close in Weston, not obvious to most it was the A370, a local person even denied it ever was when I asked, which made me look at a map.
This is Stokesey Drive, really not obvious at all that it was the A420.
skiddaw05 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 23:33
Does this road in St Neots count? It's still called the Great North Road by the look of it
Might be the best one yet.
"I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child"
- Richard Nixon
skiddaw05 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 23:33
Does this road in St Neots count? It's still called the Great North Road by the look of it
Yes, that's a good example of the sort of thing I'm getting at. No bonus points because it's ends on the A1 and the name is a giveaway.
It doesn't actually end on the A1 but comes to a dead end here. Looking at the overhead view it is the northernmost part of the A1 section that was bypassed in the 1960s (?).