B938

Ladybank

The B938 is the main road leading west out of the small Fife town of Ladybank.

It starts on the A92 (former B937) which passes to the west of Ladybank and heads east along the dead-straight Monkstown past Monkstown Wood and then along Commercial Road. The B938 ends at the far end near the station at a TOTSO junction with the B9129. It is unusual in that apart from the reprofiled junction with the A92, the route is dead straight throughout, and as it extends for over half a mile it must be one of the longest such routes.

The B938 was part of the original 1922 allocation - but at that time ended on an unclassified road at the eastern end in front of the station. Despite the routes at both ends being renumbered, the B938 has never been changed or extended. Indeed it seems likely that the route has actually been curtailed by a few metres from the station back to the junction with the B9129. Although earlier OS Six inch sheets seem to suggest a useless multiplex with the B938 still reaching the station in 1947, subsequent sheets no longer show this.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Branch to Ladybank