B3334
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From: | Titchfield (SU544059) | |||
To: | Gosport (SU595019) | |||
Via: | Stubbington | |||
Distance: | 4.8 miles (7.7 km) | |||
Meets: | A27, B3385, A32 | |||
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The B3334 is the main road into Stubbington, Hill Head, Lee-on-the-Solent (and Gosport if you're sensible!) from the West. The road was one of the first new B-roads after the original 1922 classification, getting its number in 1924.
The route begins at the Titchfield Gyratory with the A27, an odd sort of roundabout where the A27 is given priority at the western end and the whole thing is on a steep incline. We head south along the eastern side of Titchfield, through a pleasant piece of green belt before emerging into Stubbington. Here we pass around the village centre on a purpose built by-pass book-ended by roundabouts, the first collecting the route to Fareham, and the second losing the route to the coast and Hill Head. We now head east across Peel Common, before crossing the B3385 Newgate Lane and entering Rowner. We terminate at a double roundabout with the A32 opposite Fort Brockhurst.
History
The original route on the section between Stubbington and Brockhurst was winding. From Peel Common it headed south for a short section on the current B3385 then swung east into Brune Lane across Chark Common. At the end of Brune Lane it looped through Rowner on Rowner Lane before rejoining the existing road to A32 at Brockhurst.
It was the jet age that gave rise to the new section of road. The then new jet aircraft were repaired and serviced at Fleetlands, on the A32 to the north of Brockhurst, but the nearby Royal Navy Air Station Gosport runways, although suitable for propeller driver aircraft, were unsuitable for jet engined aircraft.
A new 1.1 mile road, Rowner Road (to the north of Brune Lane), from Peel Common to Rowner and the improvement of the existing 0.5 mile lane to A32 was opened in 1954. It was built to allow the jet aircraft to be carried from Fleetlands to Lee-on-Solent Airfield to be tested. The road cost £50,000, of which the Admiralty contributed £20,000.
Stubbington Bypass - The 2.2 mile Daedalus Way was opened to traffic on 30 May 2022. There had been an earlier official opening on 26 May 2022 by Baroness Vere, Parliamentary Under-secretary of State at the Department for Transport and Rob Humby, leader of Hampshire County Council. Contractor was BAM Nuttall Ltd., cost £42 million.