Roads before and after destruction

[SteveA30]

A33 disappears - November 94

Click for right way up view.....

[SteveA30]

More of the end of the A3 at Hindhead.....

[SteveA30]

July 27 2011 and Jan 4 2013

[SteveA30]

July 29 2011 There were two A3's for 2 days. Perhaps they were A1.5 each.......
Jan 4 2013

[SteveA30]

Jan 4 2013

[Gareth Thomas]

July 29 2011 There were two A3's for 2 days. Perhaps they were A1.5 each.......

The A3(M) would like to remind you it is still an "A3" despite the original A3 still existing.

Some very interesting photos though! I only went through Hindhead on the A3 once, about a year or two before it closed - I remember seeing the roadworks for the half built tunnel. Traffic was a nightmare and it took a while to get through.

I went through the tunnels a year or so after they opened and took a quick detour to tick the now-A333 off the list, and see how quiet Hindhead had become.

[SteveA30]

Time travel is possible with Google, who seem to retain Street Views where a road has physically disappeared. Clicking on the Devils Punchbowl car park, takes you to the present. Heading east sends you back to 2009, June or August. You can therefore still 'drive' all the way down the A3 to the approach to the tunnel work near Thursley, before returning to the present country lane.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Devil ... &entry=ttu

[techdan2002]

A30 Goss Moor May 2007 and January 2024
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/ind ... _15256.jpg

[KeithW]

Here is the A15 ran before the runway before the runway at RAF Scampton was lengthened

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3174148 ... &entry=ttu

[jgharston]

Here is the A15 ran before the runway before the runway at RAF Scampton was lengthened

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3174148 ... &entry=ttu

Not so obvious from the maps, but RAF Scampton has a south-west bulge as well as a north-east bulge. This road here was severed, this one here used to run east to the A15, and the B1398 rerouted - it used to run along the road behind the first view, and enter Brattleby from the east, it now enters from the north, and Scampton itself semi-bypassed.

[Glenn A]

The A3 was erased in the way Big Brother and the Inner Party would be proud of. July 29th 2011 and it becomes a non person and erased from Hindhead crossroads when the by pass opens on the same day, and its fate is revealed when it is returned to nature north of the village some months later.
Closer to me, the old A69 in Greenhead became non road east of the junction with the B6318 and the old road terminated at the old level crossing, which was closed to road traffic, and the section beyond abandoned. Also the infamous bank with its escape lane to the west of the village was grassed over when the by pass opened in 1986.
https://www.docbrown.info/docspics/nort ... page68.htm

[Owain]

And no one mentions the A344 ...

[SteveA30]

The A344

[Owain]

The A344

[Vierwielen]

July 29 2011 There were two A3's for 2 days. Perhaps they were A1.5 each.......

The A3(M) would like to remind you it is still an "A3" despite the original A3 still existing.

Some very interesting photos though! I only went through Hindhead on the A3 once, about a year or two before it closed - I remember seeing the roadworks for the half built tunnel. Traffic was a nightmare and it took a while to get through.

I went through the tunnels a year or so after they opened and took a quick detour to tick the now-A333 off the list, and see how quiet Hindhead had become.

Crossing the A3 at Hindhead was an equal nightmare. Now, when I am going through Hindhead I pass over the A3. About 100 metres before one gets to the former junction when travelling southwards on the A287, one has a chance to cheer/boo/ignore [delete as applicable] Jeremy Hunt's consttuency office (which is very prominent).