B4200

This article is about the present B4200 in the Black Country.
For the original mostly in Shropshire, see B4200 (Bewdley - Ludlow).

Park Lane, Darlaston

The B4200 is a short B-road in the Black Country.

Originally unclassified, it gained its number in the mid-1920s, making it an early example of a recycled number. Although the road has the same route today that it originally had, the road was later extended circa WW2 northwest into Darlaston Green, so that the route both started and ended on the then-route of the A462.

This northern extension was declassified in in circa 1986, as it appears on the 1985 Landranger, but is shown as unclassified on the 1987 printing, as it no longer connected to the A462 at the northern end as that was rerouted to the west at the same time. This matches a number of classified route changes within Walsall Metropolitan Borough at a similar time.

Today's route starts at a mini-roundabout on the A4038 in Darlaston and heads south, passing very quickly out of Wolverhampton's sphere of influence deeper into the multicentred conurbation that is the Black Country as it crosses the local authority boundary - ironically never being in Walsall's functional area despite being partially in the like-named district. The road is lined with houses to the right but to the left is the back of the retail park just off J9 of the M6. After passing a couple of service roads a roundabout is reached providing access to the retail park and the motorway.

On the far side of the roundabout the road becomes wholly residential. We cross Woden Road and Myvod Road at a roundabout and then continue into the town. The road remains suburban in character as far as its terminus, at a T-junction on the A462.