A431 road

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A431 road in the UK
A431 road
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Basic data
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Start of the street: Bristol
( 51 ° 28 ′  N , 2 ° 33 ′  W )
End of street: Newbridge Bath
( 51 ° 23 ′  N , 2 ° 23 ′  W )

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England

The A431 is an A road between Bristol and Bath in England . It runs about 3 mi (5 km) north parallel to the A4 road , the main route between Bristol and Bath south of the River Avon .

Course of the road

The A431 begins at St George, about a mile east of downtown Bristol, where it branches off the A420 road leading to Chippenham . From there it goes through Hanham , Longwell Green, Bitton and Kelston . It runs around Kelston Round Hill, joins the A4 behind the residence of Sir John Hawkins in the Newbridge suburb of Bath and leads into the center of Bath. Parts of the road are built on the routes of former Roman roads.

history

What is today's A431 was the upper toll road between Bristol and Bath, north of the River Avon, the lower toll road south of the Avon the A4. Both roads were declared toll roads in the Bath Agreement, the Bath Trust, in 1707. The Bristol Accords sought to swap the western half of Upper Street for opposition from Colliers in Kingswood, whose construction was not fully completed until the 1740s. In the 19th century, the upper road from Bristol to Kelston was described as "a pleasant and almost level ride".

When the streets were first numbered in 1923, the A431 was assigned to the full upgrade of the upper route between Bristol and Bath to the old post office on the corner of George Street and Milsom Street . In 1935, the Department of Transportation assigned the route Bristol to Avonmouth to the A4, and the remainder of the A431 to its current eastern end in the Newbridge suburb of Bath.

Events

In February 2014, the road at Kelston Park was closed due to a landslide. During the closure on November 17, 2014, further subsoil slid off the road. Mike Watts, who lived nearby, built a private toll road over the neighboring fields to bypass the blocked section. He opened it in August 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ordnance Survey Landranger 1: 50,000 (2016). Bristol and Bath [map].
  2. ↑ Brenda Buchanan: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Great Bath Road 1700–1830 ) (PDF) University of Bath, accessed on August 10, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bathspa.ac.uk
  3. ^ The Discovery Service 1933-1942. In: gov.uk. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk, accessed March 27, 2017 (British English).
  4. ^ Paul Wiltshire: Kelston Road to stay closed 'for the foreseeable future' amid deathtrap fears . In: Bath Chronicle , February 21, 2014. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved on April 10, 2014. 
  5. ^ Liza-Jane Gillespie: Fears that Kelston Road could be closed for a year . In: Bath Chronicle , March 26, 2014. Archived from the original on March 26, 2014. Retrieved on April 10, 2014. 
  6. ↑ A431 Kelston Road reopens as toll road closes , BBC News. November 17, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2015. 
  7. ↑ The £ 2-a-time private toll road across a field that just had its 100,000th vehicle (British English) . In: The Guardian , October 8, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  8. ^ A431 Kelston Road - Council statements. In: Bath & North East Somerset Council. gov.uk, accessed March 27, 2017 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 24 "  N , 2 ° 27 ′ 20"  W.