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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)
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.
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.
Numbered roads in the UK are signed as M (Motorway), A, [12] or B [12] roads (legal "classification" varies between countries), as well as various categories of more minor roads: for internal purposes, local authorities may also use C, [13] D [citation needed] and U [13] (the letter standing for "Unclassified"); use of C and U numbers on signs is unusual but examples can be found in all four ...
Originally this number belonged to the road from Colchester to Harwich via Manningtree in Essex; this became part of the A1124 and the A604, and is now shared between the A137 and, east of Manningtree B1352. Traffic from Colchester to Harwich is now directed via the A120. The current A135 follows part of the original route of the A19.
A road of the same number briefly connected two parts of the original route of the A380 in Newton Abbot to enable traffic to avoid the railway station. It was upgraded to an A road; what number it became is not known due to the short length of the road, but it could have become a spur of the A380. Now part of the B3195. B3197 (defunct)
Road number is duplicated in Wisbech (see above) with both still being in use. 1.8 miles (2.9 km) B199 B1003 A15 in Lincoln: This is the old A57 renumbered in 2017 because the A57 was rerouted south. Road number is also in use near Cheshunt. 4.5 miles (7.2 km)