A34 road

A34 shield
A34
The A34, Donnington.jpg
Newbury bypass, part of the A34 near Donnington
Route information
Part of E05
Length156.21 mi (251.40 km)
HistoryBetween Oxford and Birmingham is the A44 and A3400
Major junctions
South end M3 at Winchester (51°04′08″N 1°17′28″W / 51.069°N 1.291°W / 51.069; -1.291)
Major intersections
North end A6 at Salford(53°28′59″N 2°15′29″W / 53.483°N 2.258°W / 53.483; -2.258)
Location
CountryUnited Kingdom
Primary
destinations
Newbury
Oxford
Solihull
Birmingham
Walsall
Cannock
Stafford
Stoke-on-Trent
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Congleton
East Didsbury
Burnage
Manchester
Road network
A33 A35

The A34 is a major road in England. It runs from the A33 and M3 at Winchester in Hampshire, to the A6 and A6042 in Salford, close to Manchester City Centre.[1] It forms a large part of the major trunk route from Southampton, via Oxford, to Birmingham, The Potteries and Manchester. For most of its length (together with the A5011 and parts of the A50, and A49), it forms part of the former Winchester–Preston Trunk Road.[2][3] Improvements to the section of road forming the Newbury Bypass around Newbury were the scene of significant direct action environmental protests in the 1990s.[4] It is 151 miles (243 km) long.

  1. ^ "1:500,000 road map". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  2. ^ "The Winchester-Preston Trunk Road (A34) (Newbury Bypass Detrunking) (No.2) Order 1993". Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  3. ^ "Trunk Roads Acts 1936 and 1946" (PDF). Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  4. ^ "1996: Green groups join bypass battle". BBC News. 18 January 1996. Retrieved 22 December 2011.

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