A951 Peterhead
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A951 Peterhead
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The document detailing the demise of the route in 1935 says this:
Renumbered as A952 (Kirk Street spur). and about the A952: Extended from Peterhead (Junc of Queen Street (A952) and King Street (A949)) to...
The MOT map very strongly suggests that all of Kirk Street MUST be part of the A950, and the 1935 document supports this, as Marischal Street is stated to be part of the A950.
This very old thread viewtopic.php?p=122028&hilit=Peterhead+A951#p122028 says the following:
A951. The number is understood to have been used previously for Queen Street (east) and Chapel Street in Peterhead: about 500 metres of road linking the northern arm of A982 (then A952) with the then A950 near Peterhead Harbour. It is now unclassified. This stretch is shown as class A on a 1948 OS 4 miles to 1 inch map, and is almost certainly A951, though the scale is too small for a number to be shown.
This is now clearly incorrect as all of the other documents and maps identify Chapel Street as being the original line, and later a spur of the A952.
The OS Six Inch map from c1950 is here: https://maps.nls.uk/view/75258937 for the street layout at that time, which seems unchanged from the late 20s edition of the map.
It is very clear from the above, that despite the apparent break between Manse Street and Kirk Street that seems to be shown on the MOT Map, that King Street was always part of the A949.
Can anyone piece this together, because I am struggling with it.
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From the SABRE Wiki: A951 (Peterhead) :
The A951 number is simply, and unhelpfully listed in the 1922 Road Lists as being in Peterhead. It was therefore presumed, on the balance of probability to have been used previously for King Street in Peterhead. However, the document detailing the demise of the A951 in 1935 identifies the route as part of Kirk Street, although this is very hard to understand as the streets to either side of Kirk Street are undeniably part of the A950, so why wasn't Kirk Street? The
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Is it therefore possible that the A951 was the southern edge of this triangle, with the northern being the A950 and the western being the A949? That would have made it all of around 300 feet long, which we already have documented precedence for with the A3039 (Axminster).
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From the SABRE Wiki: A3039 (Axminster) :
In the original 1922 road numbering, the A3039 number was allocated to Link in Axminster in east Devon. This has now been identified as probably meaning the west end of Chard Street and part of Victoria Place past the George Hotel, which is now part of the A358 one-way system. The road is not marked by number on the map on the right so must have been a very short road in the town centre. Given that the routes of the other two town-centre roads, the
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The only outlier here is the 1957 1:25,000 sheet which colours the road in orange (the 1950 sheet has it white). Whether this means it is an A road, or whether it was just the way that the orange-white dashes landed I wouldn't like to say.
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I still think that "Kirk Street spur" might mean a spur off Kirk Street, rather than the street itself.
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Indeed - Popular Edition sheets across the whole of GB showed road width as their primary characteristic until 1935, when A-class roads (though unnumbered) started being marked.Ritchie333 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:28 I don't think one inch maps are going to be of much help. Until road numbers were standardised on them after WWII, they would only show you the standard of road, not necessarily the MOT classification. (For example, the B2068, which has never been an A-road, is shown in red on the Popular Edition sheet for that area).
Hence you just can't rely on Populars prior to that date for any classification queries.
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