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Last year I needed to get from Blyth to North Wheatley, and checking the map, Chainbridge Lane looked a nice route avoiding going all the way into Retford and out again. It was rather bumpy in places but I never saw a 'no public access' sign.
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My own local example would be Capenhurst Lane in Ellesmere Port - which this particular section was diverted onto a new alignment in the early 90's (1992, I think) when a new housing estate was built. Until that point, this was a heavily used signalised junction with the A41 (spin the camera around). Today it's just a hardly-used 'T' junction.

The idea was to stop traffic using it as a 'cut through'. Whilst of course that works when it comes to cars/vans e.t.c, it's not stopped the occasional motorcyclist using it to avoid the usual queue at where Capenhurst Lane was diverted through to. Bollards have since been added since this streetview picture but have had little effect.

Here's what replaced this short section.
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I'd forgotten that I used to live in Frome:

Roadblock 1

Roadblock 2

Roadblock 3

Roadblock 4a / 4b

Roadblock 5a / 5b

Roacblock 6

And then there's Barf, where they have to be typically grand, stylish, and probably grade-listed:

Bath 1

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Bath 3

Bath 4
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jgharston wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 13:15 Last year I needed to get from Blyth to North Wheatley, and checking the map, Chainbridge Lane looked a nice route avoiding going all the way into Retford and out again. It was rather bumpy in places but I never saw a 'no public access' sign.
I recall going to the nature reserve there and I'm sure we went all the way through.
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Owain wrote: Mon Aug 30, 2021 09:06...can be a right handling...
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Horseshoe Road, Spalding was here a long time before the new houses were built and is broken a second time a little further along too. I don't really understand why they did it as it breaks a long established road and forces traffic onto an already busy one to get around the break.
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The junction of Chesser Crescent and Robb's Loan in Edinburgh.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RLJdv3v2nD3967cw6

It would seem that two into three does actually go.
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Also from Edinburgh. This is Hutchison Crossway.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/9Ae7W5eoRAfDgXLA6

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Lastly from Edinburgh.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZPezay9rm8sns14W7

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This one in central Warwick means that there is no legitimate way to access this short length of road if you follow the painted road markings - although they did remove the Diag616 sign.
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Locally, Minley Road was blocked off, when M3/J4A was built...

https://goo.gl/maps/1NS5aW3Zbr7A1o3v9

North of the M3, the C8 became the A327
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The first road I lived on, Craig Road in Heaton Mersey has had one end turned into a Cul-De-Sac rather than be connected to Didsbury Road.

In the 1970s nearby Vale Road was cut in half, with the top half renamed Vale Close. This was done as it wasn't suitable for lorries accessing a local industrial estate.
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wait a minute why at this junction is there a sign in the road: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.92426 ... 6656?hl=en
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In Sheffield:
One end of Portland Street.
The other end of Portland Street.

I did try to get the stub at 2/4/6 Portland Street renumbered as 72/74/76 Upperthorpe Road or 2/4/6 Straw Lane, but it got lost in an re-organisation.
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Little Green Lane which runs between Small Heath and Bordesley Green in East Birmingham got blocked off into two sections presumably in the 1970's when Gallagher House and Depot were built across the road for JJ Gallagher construction.

The site was latterly the Head Office and Bordesley garage of National Express West Midlands buses, but these have now closed and are currently only used to park a few vehicles. Nat Ex are planning to totally vacate the site so it will be interesting to see what happens to the site, perhaps Little Green Lane will have its two sections reunited!

The main length of road ends here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.47583 ... 8192?hl=en

And the tiny little stub on the East side is here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.47633 ... 6656?hl=en
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One of the roads near where I live, Old Shaw Lane in Swindon, was blocked off and split in two by Roughmoor Way in (according to a local on Facebook) 1984 when work began on constructing that part of West Swindon. Both stretches still serve as local access roads but are no longer through-routes. There is also another road called Hay Lane which has a stretch running from J16 of the M4 to the south-east (outside of Swindon) while there is another stretch running through part of West Swindon. I believe that both were originally part of one consecutive road but the section in between has been closed to traffic since the 1980s - some of it has become a footpath while other parts have been built over entirely.

There is also a road in northern Swindon called Lady Lane which used to run up to Blunsdon as a back road, but a section of it was closed to traffic in the early 2000s because it was being used largely as a rat run.
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We have the opposite problem, entire areas of Middlesbrough where all the buildings were demolished in the 1970s and 1980's and the residents rehoused but the roads remain. Its only in the last 10 years that new building has begun. This was East Street

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Look at it now

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A disused part of the Runcorn busway currently blocked off at Astmoor.
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More landslips. Old Beer Road 2009 then 2015

More LTAs or the like.

All

over

Croydon

Edited to add one. Approximately looking at where my father's house of birth would have been. The Luftwaffe got it first, then the road builders (use the fader)
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