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Motorway number zones of England and Wales. Motorways first came to Britain over three decades after the advent of the A-road numbering event, and as a result required a new numbering system. They were given an M prefix, and in England and Wales a numbering system of their own not coterminous with that of the A-road network, though based on the ...
See the article Great Britain road numbering scheme for the rationale behind the numbers allocated. Depending on the first digit of the road's number see: Zone 1 (road beginning with 1) Zone 2 (road beginning with 2) Zone 3 (road beginning with 3) Zone 4 (road beginning with 4) Zone 5 (road beginning with 5) Zone 6 (road beginning with 6)
These numbers follow a zonal system. [citation needed] There is no available explanation for the allocation of road numbers in Northern Ireland. [1] The majority of the major inter-urban routes are motorways, and are designed to carry long-distance traffic. The next category is the primary route network, formed from parts of the A-road network.
List of primary destinations on the United Kingdom road network; List of road projects in the UK; Great Britain. The numbering zones for A & B roads in Great Britain.
In the Great Britain road numbering scheme, the country is divided into numbered zones, the boundaries of which are usually defined by single-digit roads. The first digit of a road's number should be the number of the zone it occupies. If the road occupies multiple zones, then the furthest-anticlockwise zone is the correct one.
Shares the same number with Scartho Road and a stretch of Louth Road to the south of Grimsby. See Anomalously numbered roads in Great Britain: A1243 (Grimsby) A1136 in Grimsby: A16 in New Waltham: A1244 Reserved for the Northern Gateway Access Road near Waltham Abbey. It would go from the A1055 to A121 if built. A1245 A130 at South Benfleet
Now unclassified; number appeared in 1922 draft road number allocations as "Strood-Cobham" (now the A2); this was probably a typo for the B2009. B2070 A3 near Liphook: A3 south of Petersfield: This was the original route of the A3 until it was bypassed by a new section B2071 New Romney Littlestone B2072 (defunct) Chart Road in Ashford
Number apparently appears on a slightly blurred late 1950s map along Wales Farm Road in North Acton, but the true number is not known. Now part of the A4000 one-way system. Assigned to the former A469 through Caerphilly; although the number seems to be a typo for the B4263, it did appear on maps as well as on official documentation in the 2000s.