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"Overnight, the number of flood warnings has actually increased in Wiltshire from 19 to 21," said Adrian Hampton, head of highways operations at Wiltshire Council.
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.
Many roads around the UK have been closed in flood-hit areas. Severe flooding has also prompted school closures, with more than 40 closed across Wales, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire on Monday morning.
The A303 road passing by Stonehenge. The Stonehenge road tunnel was a proposed tunnel in Wiltshire, England, with the goal of moving the A303 into a tunnel under part of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site to remove road traffic from view of the stones. Various proposals were made for a tunnel in the area from the mid 1990s, but were controversial.
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]
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.
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A344 passing close to Stonehenge prior to closure; A303 in foreground. The A344 was an A road in the English county of Wiltshire.Until 2013 it ran from its junction with the A303 at Stonehenge, northwest to its junction with the A360, 2 miles (3 km) away.