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The first of these is
Wincanford, at one end of the A357. Doing a Google search, the only link is this Wiki page! Multimap can't find the place and AA route planner can't find it either. I suspect there may be a typo!
A simple answer would be to use
Wincanton, which is nearby, but as you can see from this
OS map, the road actually stops at the roundabout where the A357 meets the A371 – a place with no name!!
God, heavens high above (and yes I am talking often about
ecclesiastical parishes). No. Every place in England has a place name, the idea that you can just describe the end of all roads using non-motorway road names is not just lazy, it gives no inkling of road length and direction. By the way I am the one who has fixed all 10 or so remaining redlinks, the English Heritage website is wonderful for viewing
civil parishes in England otherwise try Royalmail.com. -
Adam37Talk14:26, 7 September 2013 (UTC)reply
A361
I believe that the
A361 is the longest triple-digit road in the whole of Britain. Please could somebody verify, and if true, measure it, and add a note to the relevant row something like that for
A40 which shows "The longest A road in Zone 4 at 256 miles long" --
Redrose64 (
talk)
13:37, 10 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Someone has already put a note to that effect under
Kilsby. Redrose64 knows most wikipedia editors like their edits, which are scholarly. I suspect in this instance silence does indicate approval. -
Adam37Talk15:01, 7 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Please explain
This may apply to every zone article of the GB #ing scheme. An encyclopedia is to inform, not to give the reader an opportunity to solve puzzles.
1) Why does the Road column have "Axx" in a box then "Axx" as text?.
If the boxed "Axx"es are just to show someone's drawings of road numbers (even should they be exact miniatures of some precise official rigorously specified design) then they are utterly useless.
Why are some boxed "Axx"es greenish and others white?
Why is "road" stuck after every Axx in the list. By the article name and by the column heading we know the individual entries are roads.
2) There are no unlinked or redlinked roads because for the roads without WP articles the links return to this article, so the seeker after the route of A309, for example, is given a fresh display of this whole article without even a # to guide to the appropriate inappropriate section of the article.--
SilasW (
talk)
14:52, 21 September 2010 (UTC)reply
The boxes represent road signs, or portions of road signs. Those with green backgrounds are
trunk roads (maintenance is the responsibility of the
Highways Agency or equivalent Government department); those with white background are non-trunk (the local authority has responsibility for maintenance). --
Redrose64 (
talk)
15:58, 21 September 2010 (UTC)reply
Thank you. But it is not proper that a reader should have to ask anything which I did, articles (with their links of course) should explain fairly fully. Here there is no need for the road numbers to be repeated or for pictorial representation of the road signs. If the article benefits by showing the distinction of maintaining authorities then it should have it
be directly obvious, though if anyone really needs to study roads divided by their pothole
fixers a few categories would filter them.--
SilasW (
talk)
14:11, 22 September 2010 (UTC)reply
It is slightly more complicated that that. The trunk roads such as the A37 are directly subject to local council involvement, unlike official primary road network trunk roads, which is what used to be understood by the term. You will note Traffic England reports only on for example the A34 in its trunk sections and not the A37 for instance. This also provides what has come to be termed a logistics or lorry road grid.-
Adam37Talk15:01, 7 September 2013 (UTC)reply