45-673: Download coordinates as: The A606 is an A road in England that starts in West Bridgford , on the outskirts of Nottingham , and heads southeastwards through Leicestershire and the towns of Melton Mowbray and Oakham , terminating at Stamford, Lincolnshire on the former Great North Road . The route in earlier times was a far more important route than it is today. It was the main road from Nottingham to London. The turnpike went from Nottingham via Melton and Oakham to Kettering (to join today's A6 ), and then on to London, run by
90-494: A crossroads, there is access to Widmerpool , to the right, and the former Widmerpool railway station . The road meets the dual-carriageway A46 at an interchange. This point is the southern end of the A46 Newark to Widmerpool Improvement. At Hickling Pastures, it passes Turnpike Farm, and there is a left turn for Hickling . The road becomes more hilly, and it passes through Upper Broughton and its Golden Fleece . Crossing
135-574: Is "not advised". Exceptions to this are known in the forms of numbers on signs and past use of prefixes H and V on signs in Milton Keynes where main roads have a regular grid system . These designations are used when planning officers deal with certain planning applications , including the creation of a new vehicular access onto a highway. The letter Q is used for many important unclassified roads in Fife . In London, Cycleways are using
180-738: Is an abrupt turn to the left and one to the right, where it meets a road from Cold Overton. Ruddles Brewery was based here before 1997 – the year Rutland finally became independent. As Oakham Road it meets a roundabout for the bypass in Barleythorpe . The former route through Oakham is now the B640. The £11.6 million bypass opened on Wednesday 10 January 2007, with construction having started in October 2005. The contract had been awarded to Alfred McAlpine Civil Engineering in June 2003. The next roundabout
225-659: Is between Zones 1 and 2, where the River Thames defines the boundary so that all of Kent is in Zone 2. 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 A38 road , a trunk road running from Bodmin to Mansfield 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,
270-664: Is crossed by the Jubilee Way . At crossroads there is a left turn for Whissendine , and a right turn for Little Dalby . In Somerby at the top of Leesthorpe Hill, there is the Leesthorpe Crossroads] , with a right turn for Leesthorpe and Pickwell . The road climbs to the top of a hill, where it becomes the boundary between Rutland (to the left) and Leicestershire (to the right), reaching 160 metres at Green's Lodge. Rutland became independent in April 1997. Leaving
315-850: Is crossed by the Viking Way , and passes The Noel ( Noel Arms ). The road reaches the end of Rutland Water , the largest reservoir (by surface area) in the UK, owned by Anglian Water , and passes through Empingham , where it is crossed by the Rutland Round . It crosses the River Gwash , and is crossed by the Hereward Way . At Tinwell , it meets the A1 at an interchange built in 1960. It enters Lincolnshire , South Kesteven , and Stamford as Empingham Road losing its trunk road status, passing
360-550: Is denoted by the colour of the sign border and direction arrow, and can be summarised as follows: Roads and lanes with yet lower traffic densities are designated as unclassified roads commonly using C , D and U 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
405-717: Is for the Lands' End clothing company. It crosses the Birmingham to Peterborough Line , and there is a roundabout for the B668 ( Burley Road ), close to a Midlands Co-op superstore. The bypass is crossed by the Hereward Way , and at the A6003 roundabout the A6003 leaves to the south for Uppingham , and the A606 leaves to the left (east). From here to Barnsdale , the road is followed by
450-452: 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 use: one for motorways , and another for non-motorway roads. While some of Great Britain's major roads form part of the international E-road network , no E-routes are signposted in
495-636: Is the TOTAL Lane End Garage . The road becomes the parish boundary between Plumtree and Normanton-on-the-Wolds , to the left. The former A606 used to go through both villages before 1930. At the end of the joint bypass, there is a right turn for the British Geological Survey . It passes through Stanton-on-the-Wolds . At the junction for Keyworth , there is the Murco Wolds Service Station . At
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#1732780890364540-592: The A13 (London to Shoeburyness); the next radial is the A2 , followed by the A20 (London to Dover), and so on. These roads have been numbered either outwards from or clockwise around their respective hubs, depending on their alignment. 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
585-685: The C prefix and marked using pale green signs. There are also some CS prefixes for Cycle Superhighways, marked using magenta signs, but these are being phased out. Despite numerous large roads in Great Britain being part of the International E-road network , no road that forms part of this network is signposted as such and only the road's national designation is shown. The same is true in Northern Ireland. Wartnaby Too Many Requests If you report this error to
630-463: The M1 the zones were defined for Zones 1 to 4 based on the proposed M2 , M3 and M4 motorways . The M5 and M6 numbers were reserved for the other two planned long distance motorways. The Preston Bypass , the UK's first motorway section, should have been numbered A6(M) under the scheme decided upon, but it was decided to keep the number M6 as had already been applied. The first full-length motorway in
675-546: The Viking Way and the Macmillan Way. There is a right turn for Hambleton (and Hambleton Hall ), which is the former route of the road. When Rutland Water was built, the A606 was diverted to the north. The road passes on the north shore of Rutland Water, and the southern edge of Burley Wood. In the parish of Whitwell , at Barnsdale crossroads, there is a right turn for Barnsdale Hall Hotel and Country Club, and Barnsdale Lodge. The road passes through Whitwell, where it
720-400: The A road designation, for example A3(M) , A329(M) , A38(M) , A48(M) and A627(M) . B roads are numbered distributor roads , 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
765-712: The A1 in Newcastle upon Tyne has moved twice. Originally along the Great North Road, it then moved to the Tyne Tunnel , causing some of the roads in Zone 1 to lie in Zone 6. The designated A1 later moved to the western bypass around the city, and roads between the two found themselves back in Zone 1. For the most part the roads affected retained their original numbers throughout. Elsewhere when single-digit roads were bypassed, roads were often re-numbered in keeping with
810-634: The B679 (for Wilford ). The section to Melton follows the former railway from Nottingham to Melton, now the Old Dalby Test Track , and to the A46 junction is only a few hundred metres apart. The line then continued from Melton to Oakham, then on to Corby and Kettering, and was the fastest route to Nottingham by train from St Pancras . It followed the exact line of the former turnpike . It begins as Melton Road , and passes two churches then crosses
855-631: The Board's senior engineers, to devise a classification system and then assign numbers to the highways for identification purposes. The work was interrupted by the First World War . It did not resume until the Ministry of Transport 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 Ministry of Transport Act 1919 . A classification system
900-510: The Dalby Brook, the road enters Leicestershire and the district of Melton . In Broughton and Old Dalby , it passes through Nether Broughton , and its Anchor Inn and Red House . The road is crossed by a pylon line, and ascends Broughton Hill where the road rises 80 metres in 0.5 km. On the top of the hill, there are crossroads, which is highest point of the road at 171 metres, for a former Roman road ( Six Hills Lane ) that follows
945-652: The Malcolm Sargent Primary School (former Exeter secondary modern school ), on the left, and the Danish Invader , on the right. There is a right turn for Roman Bank (former Ermine Street ) and it reaches its terminus at Scotgate – the former Great North Road (B1081). A roads in Great Britain In Great Britain , there is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads. Each road
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#1732780890364990-537: 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. 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
1035-507: The Nottingham, Melton and Kettering Turnpike Trust from 1758. The turnpike trusts were abolished in 1880, the year that the railway line to Melton opened. The trains would run until 1968. The road begins a few hundred yards south of Nottinghamshire County Hall (built in 1937), in West Bridgford in the district of Rushcliffe , at the traffic lights junction of the A60 (for Loughborough) and
1080-600: The Rutland boundary, the road descends to reach Whissendine Brook, and there is a left turn for Whissendine, and a right turn for Cold Overton and Northfield Farm (both in Leicestershire). In Langham it ascends the side of Ranksborough Hill (at 191 metres, the second highest in Rutland), to reach 166 metres. Descending down the hill, it passes a right turn for Ranksborough Hall, an activity centre. In Langham, there
1125-582: The UK was the M1 motorway . Shorter motorways typically take their numbers from a parent motorway in contravention of the zone system, explaining the apparently anomalous numbers of the M48 and M49 motorways as spurs of the M4, and M271 and M275 motorways as those of the M27 . This numbering system was devised in 1958–59 by the then Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation , and applied only in England and Wales. It
1170-623: The United Kingdom in the Isle of Man , Jersey and British Overseas Territories . Work on classification began in 1913. The Road Board had been established in 1909 to administer Vehicle Excise Duty - money raised by taxation to pay for new road construction and for repair of damage done to existing roads by the growing number of motorists. As the Board needed to work out which roads should be funded, upgraded or replaced, its secretary, William Rees Jeffreys , appointed Henry Maybury , one of
1215-638: The United Kingdom. Due to changes in local road designation, in some cases roads are numbered out of zone. There are also instances where two unrelated roads have been given exactly the same number; for example, the Leicester Ring Road and a road in Cumbria are both designated A594. This scheme applies only to England , Scotland and Wales ; a separate system using similar conventions is used in Northern Ireland , as well as outside
1260-407: The aim of better targeting road funding. Some A roads are designated trunk roads , which implies that central government rather than local government has responsibility for them. A more recent classification is that of primary routes , the category of recommended routes for long-distance traffic. Primary routes include both trunk and non-trunk roads. Some sections of A roads have been improved to
1305-416: 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. These radials are supplemented by two-digit codes which are routes that may 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
1350-533: The former railway line to Melton, and the BP Melton Road Filling Station . There is traffic lights at a crossroad for Valley Road , to the left, and Boundary Road , to the right (for Rushcliffe Leisure Centre and Rushcliffe School ). In Edwalton , the road then crosses the former railway, where a few hundred metres further south it is still accessible by train. To the right is Wheatcrofts garden centre (started by Harry Wheatcroft ) and
1395-523: The headquarters of East Midlands Councils , and Melton Borough Council on the right. It meets the A607 and A6006 at traffic lights and crossroads. Previously the road went straight through the town centre, which is now pedestrianised as Nottingham Street . The southbound road now follows the A607 to the east on Norman Way , then follows Thorpe End and Sherrard Street to the west, in a convoluted route through
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1440-450: The latter. 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 rapid expansion of the network and some numbered routes did not follow the most usual routes taken. The Trunk Roads Act 1936 gave
1485-478: The new motorway would take the name of the old A road rather than having its own number. The most notable example of that is the A1(M) . In England and Wales the road numbering system for all-purpose (i.e. non-motorway) roads is based on a radial pattern centred on London . In Scotland the same scheme is centred on Edinburgh . In both cases the main single-digit roads normally define the zone boundaries. The exception
1530-543: The northern ridge of the wolds, where the right turn is for Wartnaby . The road descends down a hill into Ab Kettleby , the former home of Desert Orchid , passing the Sugar Loaf on the left. The road descends down the side of a valley and up onto Potter Hill. At this point the road enters the parish of Melton Mowbray as Nottingham Road . It passes the Esso Brookside Service Station and
1575-481: The original zone boundaries. A few roads are anomalously numbered . 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 same principle of zones. Running clockwise from
1620-493: The road meets the A52 at a busy roundabout, where the road exits to the east as a trunk road . There is a 14 ft 6 in low bridge (the former railway), so there is a turning point for high vehicles. For the next mile the road is the parish boundary between Tollerton to the left, and Plumtree , to the right. It passes Tollerton post office and there is traffic lights for Tollerton Lane (for Nottingham Airport ), where there
1665-548: The same numbering scheme as A roads, but almost always have 3- and 4-digit designations. Many 3-digit B roads outside the London area are former A roads which have been downgraded owing to new road construction; others may link smaller settlements to A roads. 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. The classification
1710-405: 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 A1(M) and A404(M) . There have been occasions where this designation has been used to indicate motorway bypasses of an existing road, but the original retains
1755-579: The scheme commenced, some roads with 3 or 4 digit numbers have increased in significance, for example the A127 , A1079 and A414 . New routes have also been allocated 3 or 4 digit numbers, for example the Edinburgh City Bypass is the A720 . The Major Road Network is a proposed classification of major local-authority controlled A roads that the government committed to implementing in 2017, with
1800-517: The short M85 became part of the M90 . In England and Wales, the six single-digit numbers reflect the traditionally most important radial routes coming out of London. Starting with the A1 which heads due north, numbers were allocated sequentially in a clockwise direction, thus: Similarly, in Scotland, important roads radiating from Edinburgh have single-digit numbers, thus: While these routes remain
1845-643: The town centre. The northbound route follows Leicester Street then Wilton Road . Both meet at an awkward junction at the Anne of Cleves , onto Burton Road . The road passes Melton Mowbray railway station , and crosses the Birmingham to Peterborough Line and the River Eye . The road climbs the side of the River Eye's valley out of Melton, passing the former King Edward VII School . In Burton and Dalby it passes through Burton Lazars , and St James church, and
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1890-564: The upgrading of other A-roads (such as the A38 (M) ). These routes are not all centred on London, but as far as possible follow the general principle that their number locates them radially clockwise from the associated single digit route. For example, the A10 (London to King's Lynn) is the first main route clockwise from the A1, the A11 (London to Norwich) is the next, then the A12 (London to Lowestoft) and
1935-415: 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 local authorities . Government funding towards the repairs of these roads were set at 60% for the former and 50% for
1980-629: Was decided to reserve the numbers 7, 8 & 9 for Scotland. In Scotland, where roads were the responsibility of the Scottish Office (Scottish Government after 1999), the decision was taken to adopt a scheme whereby motorways took the numbers of the all-purpose routes they replaced. As a result, there is no M7 (as no motorway follows the A7 ), and when the A90 was re-routed to replace the A85 south of Perth ,
2025-789: Was no consistent approach to the renumbering – some A roads retained their existing number as non-primary roads (e.g. the A40 running alongside the M40 ), others were given "less significant" numbers (e.g. the A34 in Warwickshire became the A3400 after the M40 was built), and the remainder were downgraded to B or unclassified roads (e.g. the A38 , which was replaced by the M5 between Tiverton and Exeter ). Occasionally,
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