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A section of the A360 will be closed for three months from 2 April to facilitate future construction.
The road was the inspiration for the song "303" on their debut album K. [68] The road was also mentioned in the Levellers' song "Battle of the Beanfield", about the attack by police on travellers celebrating the Solstice at Stonehenge (1 June 1985): "Down the '303 at the end of the road, Flashing lights, exclusion zones". [69]
Wiltshire County Council's Environment and Transport Committee selected the Eastern Route (though it was the least popular) as the 'preferred route' in 2001, because the Council said that it offered the best and lowest cost way of relieving traffic congestion in the town centre. The council submitted an initial planning application during 2005.
Highway was a large village, with a population of 148 recorded at the 1831 census. [4] The village declined as Calne grew, [ 5 ] with most inhabitants having left by the early 20th century. Today Highway is a hamlet consisting of the manor house, a farm, the former church and a small number of houses.
The A303 road passing by Stonehenge. The Stonehenge road tunnel is a proposal for a tunnel in Wiltshire, England, to enclose a section of the A303 in a tunnel under part of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site to remove road traffic from view of the stones. Various proposals for a tunnel in the area have been made since the mid-1990s but remain ...
Wiltshire Council, known between 1889 and 2009 as Wiltshire County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Wiltshire in South West England. Since 2009 it has been a unitary authority , being a county council which also performs the functions of a district council .
In the 19th century the judicial functions of the county were discharged at Devizes Assize Court in the Summer [1] and at Salisbury Assize Court in the Lent. [2] Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, there was a need to find a meeting place for Wiltshire County Council, [3] and the Victoria County History infers that ...
The A363 is a main road in the United Kingdom which runs through Bath and North East Somerset and Wiltshire. [1] It provides a link between the small market towns of West Wiltshire and Bath, the M4 westbound, and the M5. It runs from the A4 at Bathford to the A350 at Yarnbrook, passing through Bradford-on-Avon and Trowbridge.