B750
B750 | ||||||||||||||||
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From: | Dundonald (NS365346) | |||||||||||||||
To: | Palmer Mount (NS372351) | |||||||||||||||
Distance: | 0.7 miles (1.1 km) | |||||||||||||||
Meets: | B730, A759 | |||||||||||||||
Old route now: | A759, B730 | |||||||||||||||
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Route
The B750 is a short link road in the Ayrshire village of Dundonald. It starts on the B730 beneath the castle and heads east along the residential Kilmarnock Road, quickly reaching open country. After passing a farm it bears sharply left at a T junction, before curving alongside a wood to end at an east facing fork junction on the A759.
History
Originally the B750 was considerably longer. It started on the B749 in the centre of the coastal town of Troon and headed inland to Loans, where it met the A78. After a fairly long multiplex north along the main road, the B750 resumed and headed east to Dundonald. It then wound through the village to end on the A71 (now B7081) in the centre of Kilmarnock.
The route was truncated very early on. By 1932 virtually the entire route had been renumbered as the A759. However, at some point between 1922 and 1932 the Dundonald northern bypass had been opened, and so the A759 used it instead of winding through the village. Indeed, the OS One Inch sheets from 1925/6 show the bypass as open, so it seems likely that the renumbering was coincident with the completion of the new road. The north-south part of the B750 along Drybridge Road through Dundonald became part of the B730 and so the B750 was left with the short section of road that it retains today.