A918

Route

The A918 South Street in St Andrews

The A918 appears to simply consist of the majority of South Street in St Andrews these days (with the A917 being the eastern end of the street). However that was not always the case. For a time the road appears to have had a spur which started on the A917 North Street as Greyfriars Garden, then ran down Bell Street before reaching South Street. Changes to one-way systems seem to have removed the spur and just given the road its South Street route.

History

The original route of the A918

The A918 was, however, originally much longer. At is current eastern end, it originally turned south and continued along Abbey Street, following the present A917 as far as its sharp bend at the eastern end of the High Street in Crail, which was originally the end of both the A917 and A918. In the 1930s, North Street and the loop in front of the Cathedral was added to the route as a spur.

Although the 1976 Landranger still shows the full length of the A918, by 1979 the OS 1:250k sheet shows that the majority of the A918 has been renumbered as an extension of the A917, leaving behind the short section of South Street in St Andrews.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Crail - St Andrews