B6290
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| B6290 | ||||
| Location Map ( geo) | ||||
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| From: | Picktree Lane (NZ277520) | |||
| To: | Blind Lane (NZ274526) | |||
| Via: | Park Road North | |||
| Distance: | 0.5 miles (0.7 km) | |||
| Meets: | A167, B6313, A693 | |||
| Former Number(s): | A6127 | |||
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This article is about the current route in Chester-le-Street, Durham.
For the original route in Spennymoor in the same county, see B6290 (Spennymoor).
For the original route in Spennymoor in the same county, see B6290 (Spennymoor).
The B6290 follows a short section of the original northern end of the Chester-le-Street Bypass, along what was once part of the A1 and later became a branch of the A6127.
Today, it connects the central section of the bypass - today's A167 - to the old Great North Road. The A167 turns off the bypass at the southern end of the B6290 and instead runs northeastwards to meet junction 63 of the A1(M); the two roads meet again at the northern end of the B6290.
Although purpose-built as an arterial route in the 1931, Park Road North (as the Chester-le-Street Bypass came to be named) quickly attracted residential ribbon development and the B6290 is nowadays subject to a 30 mph speed limit throughout.