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B3228

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B3228
Location Map ( geo)
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From:  Moor Park, Farnham (SU851474)
To:  Cox Bridge, Farnham (SU827460)
Distance:  1.8 miles (2.9 km)
Meets:  A31, A287, B3001, B3007
Former Number(s):  A31, A325
Primary Destinations
Highway Authorities

Surrey

Traditional Counties

Surrey

Route outline (key)
B3228 Moor Park - Farnham
(A287) Farnham
B3228 Farnham - Cox Bridge
This article is about the current B3228 in Farnham, Surrey.
For the former B3228 in Devon, see B3228 (Devon)
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For a road in Dartford, often incorrectly marked on maps as the B3228, see B2228.


Route

The B3228 is a new number for the section of former A325 through Farnham, Surrey.

Moor Park - Cox Bridge

The B3228 begins on the Shepherd and Flock roundabout east of Farnham, the junction of A31 and A325, and one of the UK's largest and most unusual roundabouts: its name derives from the Shepherd and Flock pub, which stands in the middle of the roundabout, along with a cluster of private houses.

Travelling west on Guildford Road, a series of small industrial and trading estates line the left-hand side of the road before reaching a set of traffic lights controlling the junction with the B3007 Hale Road. The two roads meet at an acute angle, and there's no right turn here; it is really a fork in the road for traffic coming out of Farnham. The road is now East Street, but shortly the B3228 gets tangled in a large figure-of-eight shaped one-way system, with westbound traffic sent swerving around Dogflud Way past the sports centre, and eastbound traffic along The Woolmead.

Arriving at the town centre one-way system, all now classified as part of the A287, the B3228 vanishes for a short time, reappearing on the far side of the gyratory to depart the town centre on West Street. This road, lined with the sort of fine historic buildings that one always imagines in a venerable market town like Farnham, runs in a straight line out of town, quickly becoming more suburban until it passes the cemetery on the left and open countryside is reached.

Almost immediately afterwards, a gentle turn to the left brings the road to Coxbridge Roundabout, another junction of A31 and A325, and the end of the route.

History

The whole of the present B3228, excluding some of the loops of the town's various one-way systems, was originally the A31 which ran through Farnham on an east-west line.

When the town's southerly bypass opened in the 1950s, it took the A31 number, and the route through the town centre was reallocated to the A325. In turn the A325 vacated a length of Hale Road which became an extension of the B3007.

Changes to the road system in the town centre during 2020 and 2021 saw road space reallocated to provide widened pavements, and in an effort to discourage through traffic, the A325 within the town was downgraded to B-road status. The B3228 was created as part of this change, but while A325 has been removed from signs along this route, the new number has not been signposted.




B3228
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Farnham
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B3280 • B3281 • B3282 • B3283 • B3284 • B3285 • B3286 • B3287 • B3288 • B3289 • B3290 • B3291 • B3292 • B3293 • B3294 • B3295 • B3296 • B3297 • B3298 • B3299
Earlier iterations: B3202 • B3204 • B3206(N) • B3206(S) • B3208 • B3213 • B3214 • B3219 • B3228 • B3234 • B3248 • B3250 • B3253
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