B991 (Bedford Road)

This article is about the former B991 along Bedford Road in Aberdeen.
For the current B991 along St Machar Drive in Aberdeen, see B991.

Heading north

The B991 connected the A96 and A978 together along Bedford Road in Old Aberdeen. The southern end of the route passed a retail park, whilst the northern end passed part of Aberdeen University.

While the B991 always started at the same place on the A96 and headed north up Bedford Road, it has had a variety of northern terminuses before being downgraded completely. It originally turned east along the narrow, tree lined Meston Walk to the High Street, then did a dogleg south into University Road to terminate on the A92 (now A956) King Street. With the creation of the A978 in the 1930s, the route was diverted north up the High Street to meet the A978, St Machar Drive at the Old Town House. The number seems to have been moved to its later route in the early 1960s, sometime after the construction of the northern part of Bedford Road and the roundabout on the A978. The 1939 and 1944 editions of the OS Ten Mile map erroneously label the route as the B911, which is correctly shown on the same sheet in Dundee

The B991 along Bedford Road lost its number in 2020 following a significant reclassification of routes within Aberdeen, with the B991 number now being reused for St Machar Drive, formerly the A978.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Aberdeen (Bedford Road and University Road)