A392

This article is about the current A392 that runs to Newquay.
For the original A392 from Truro to Redruth in Cornwall, see A392 (Truro - Redruth).

Route

The A392 is a reasonably short A-road in west Cornwall.

St Columb Road - Newquay

The A392 starts from the Halloon roundabout, which is also the junction of the A39 and a couple of minor roads. It runs in a cutting for a short distance, along a section newly built in 1995, before narrowing as it follows a much older section after the turning for St Columb Road. It then curves left and runs into White Cross, then Mountjoy and then crosses the Newquay branch of the railway and comes to Quintrell Downs. The whole length is a fairly slow road at the best of times, being mostly fairly narrow and with some tightish corners, but in summer is likely to be far slower due to the traffic.

Quintrell Downs

At Quintrell Downs it crosses the A3058 at a roundabout. Left goes to St Austell, right goes into Porth and eastern Newquay. The A392 continues straight on, towards western Newquay. After a holiday park on the left is a new-build roundabout. For a short while a park and ride was operated from it's only turning to the right. Now it serves as access for construction traffic for the new house building work south of Newquay.

After the village of Lane, it comes to a roundabout called Treloggan but the only turns here are for a no-through road to a very new-build housing development, which is an unmarked turning on the left and a right turn to a small somewhat older overspill settlement of Newquay and an industrial estate. Continuing ahead, the road turns shaply right immediately before another small roundabout junction is reached called Trevemper. Traffic is very heavy in the season here and the roundabout often queued in three directions. The left turn is the A3075 towards Redruth. The A392 turns right, following the River Gannel. Shortly ahead is yet another new-build roundabout which has access to a new service station and food outlet. This in due course will also form a shortcut back to the earlier part of the road to miss out Trevemper and one assumes more Newquay housing development. Next the road reaches the Mellanvrane Roundabout where the A3058, having come through the middle of Newquay, ends.

The A392 ends at the Mount Wise Roundabout at the western end of Newquay, near Fistral beach, famous for surfing.

History

The number did not exist in this location until the 1935 numbering revisions and is mostly a re-numbered section of the B3279. This is the part from the St Columb Road turn to Quintrell Downs. The narrowness of the road in this section shows off its B road heritage. The very first section from Halloon, was built in 1995 at the same time as the A30/A39 bypasses of Indian Queens and St Columb Road and it is thus much wider. Previous to that the road went through St Columb Road having started from the A30 in Indian Queens.

In 1935 the road turned right at Quintrell Downs and followed what is now the A3058 (but was renumbered from the B3278) into eastern Newquay and thence through now-unclassified routes in town to the Harbour via the High Street. It was re-routed in July 1990 along a former unclassified section through Lane to the junction with the A3075, and at the same time took over part of the A3075 to what is now the Mellanvrane Roundabout. The final piece of this new southern Newquay bypass was built next to the route of a small lane alongside the Gannel, cutting that in two and then between housing to its current terminus at Mount Wise Roundabout. The former A3075 from Mellanvrane became part of an extended A3058.

Original Author(s): Mark