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1057: 523: 187: 27: 1012:, which have lower traffic densities than the main trunk roads, or A roads. This classification has nothing to do with the width or quality of the physical road, and B roads can range from dual carriageways to single track roads with passing places. B roads follow the same numbering scheme as A roads, but almost always have 3- and 4-digit designations. Many 3-digit B roads outside the 129:. A classification system was created in 1922, under which important routes connecting large population centres, or for through traffic, were designated as Class I, and roads of lesser importance were designated as Class II. The definitive list of those roads was published on 1 April 1923, following consultations with 380:. In Central London, the A40 (Holborn Viaduct, Holborn, High Holborn and Oxford Street) provides a border between the 4 and 5 zones east of Marble Arch. The original A5 (now renumbered A5183) also provides such a border, and north of St Albans the original A6 (now renumbered A1081) provides an Eastern border. 721:(The A6 originally started in Barnet on the old A1. When the A1 was moved onto the Barnet Bypass in the 1950s, the A6 was cut back to the A1/A1(M) junction (later A1/M25 junction). Further renumbering in the St Albans area means that it now starts in Luton town centre. The old route is numbered as A1081). 145:
With the introduction of motorways in the late 1950s, a new classification of "M" was introduced. In many cases the motorways duplicated existing stretches of A road, which therefore lost much of their significance and were in some cases renumbered. There was no consistent approach to the renumbering
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Shortly after this, the numbers started to appear in road atlases and on signs on the roads themselves, making them a tool for motorists in addition to their use for determining funding. The numbers of the roads changed quite frequently during the early years of the system, because it was a period of
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and identify all roads. Each road is given a single letter (representing a category) and a subsequent number (between one and four digits). Though this scheme was introduced merely to simplify funding allocations, it soon became used on maps and as a method of navigation. There are two sub-schemes in
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The system continues to three and four digit numbers which further split and criss-cross the radials. Lower numbers originate closer to London than higher numbered ones. As roads have been improved since the scheme commenced, some roads with 3 or 4 digit numbers have increased in significance, for
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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 same
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prefixes but, while these are numbered, in general this is done for use by the local authorities who are responsible for maintaining them and the non-unique numbering is in a local series which usually does not appear on road signs; use of local numbers on signs in England is "not advised".
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Some sections of A roads have been improved to the same standard as motorways, but do not completely replace the existing road; they form a higher standard part of the route for those which are not excluded. These sections retain the same number but are suffixed with (M), for example the
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gave the Ministry direct control of major routes and a new classification system was created to identify these routes. Originally, those numbers beginning in T were to be made public, but that was eventually deemed unnecessary.
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be slightly less important, but may still be classified as trunk routes, although many of these routes have lost a lot of their significance due to motorway bypasses, or the upgrading of other A-roads (such as the
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B roads in the county of Devon have further sub-classifications according to their accessibility. This is due to the rural nature of Devon's topology making some roads unsuitable for certain types of vehicle.
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While these routes remain the basis for the numbering of the A road network, they are no longer necessarily major roads, having been bypassed by motorways or other changes to the road network.
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is a proposed classification of major local-authority controlled A roads that the government committed to implementing in 2017, with the aim of better targeting road funding.
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was formed in 1919 and given authority to classify highways and to allocate funding for road maintenance, authority for which was granted by section 17 (2) of the
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starts in Zone 3, and is therefore numbered with an A3x number, even though it passes through Zones 4 and 5 to end in Zone 6. Additionally, the A1 in
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In England and Wales, the six single-digit numbers reflect the traditionally most important radial routes coming out of London. Starting with the
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The first digit in the number of any road should be the number of the furthest-anticlockwise zone entered by that road. For example, the
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area are former A roads which have been downgraded owing to new road construction; others may link smaller settlements to A roads.
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in Warwickshire became the A3400 after the M40 was built), and the remainder were downgraded to B or unclassified roads (e.g. the
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In England and Wales the road numbering system for all-purpose (i.e. non-motorway) roads is based on a radial pattern centred on
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Elsewhere when single-digit roads were bypassed, roads were often re-numbered in keeping with the original zone boundaries.
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Shorter motorways typically take their numbers from a parent motorway in contravention of the zone system, explaining the
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The classification is denoted by the colour of the sign border and direction arrow, and can be summarised as follows:
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on 16 May 1935, and later cut back at the southern end because of the construction of the main runway at
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rapid expansion of the network and some numbered routes did not follow the most usual routes taken. The
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Similarly, in Scotland, important roads radiating from Edinburgh have single-digit numbers, thus:
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Work on classification began in 1913. The Road Board had been established in 1909 to administer
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prefixes for Cycle Superhighways, marked using magenta signs, but these are being phased out.
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which heads due north, numbers were allocated sequentially in a clockwise direction, thus:
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Zone 7: North of the Solway Firth/Eden Estuary, west of the A7, south of the A8 covering
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Exceptions to this are known in the forms of numbers on signs and past use of prefixes
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numbers were reserved for the other two planned long distance motorways. The
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has moved twice. Originally along the Great North Road, it then moved to the
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These radials are supplemented by two-digit codes which are routes that
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on top of it. As such, the route from Edinburgh is now replaced by the
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Zone 3: North/West of the A3, south of the A4 covering part of Surrey,
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Roads and lanes with yet lower traffic densities are designated as
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Zone 8: North of the A8, west of the A9 covering northern Glasgow,
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Despite numerous large roads in Great Britain being part of the
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Zone 6: East of the A6 and A7, west of the A1 covering eastern
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prefix and marked using pale green signs. There are also some
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the zones were defined for Zones 1 to 4 based on the proposed
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Zone 5: North/East of the A5, west of the A6, south of the
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Zone 4: North of the A4, south/west of the A5 covering the
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While some of Great Britain's major roads form part of the
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This sign at Crouch Hill shows two road numbers in Zone 2.
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defines the boundary so that all of Kent is in Zone 2.
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The numbering zones for A & B roads in Great Britain
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Index

Odonymy in the United Kingdom

Great Britain
numbering scheme
classify
motorways
international E-road network
Leicester Ring Road
a road in Cumbria
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Isle of Man
Roads in Jersey
British Overseas Territories
Vehicle Excise Duty
William Rees Jeffreys
Henry Maybury
First World War
Ministry of Transport
Ministry of Transport Act 1919
local authorities
Trunk Roads Act 1936
A40
M40
A34
A38
M5
Tiverton

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