Ever wondered how road numbering works

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Mon 26 Jul 2004 22:29
Ever wondered how road numbering works - Robin
well, nor had I until I came across an interesting* website on the subject. It is called Major Roads of Great Britain

euclid.colorado.edu/~rmg/roads/

Another one I found is all about the Great North Road and is very detailed on the history of the GNR and even mentions my village.

www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk/contents.htm

*I guess that my use of the word interesting here has to be taken in the context of a very slow afternoon in a very hot office.

Just off to get my anorak.
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Tue 27 Jul 2004 07:46
Ever wondered how road numbering works - Cliff Pope
Yes, actually, I have. And it's not just major roads that have numbers. All roads other than unclassified are either A, B, C or D. They don't display the C and D numbers, except intriguingly when doing roadworks on minor roads, when they put up small advance warning notices. That's how I discovered I live on the D4582, 200 yards from the junction with the C8964.
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Tue 27 Jul 2004 10:12
Ever wondered how road numbering works - terryb
Robin
Yes, I have. In fact we were taught it for O-level geography back in the early 1960s! That's when useful stuff was taught in schools. Well, actually that's when stuff was taught in schools!

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Terry
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Tue 27 Jul 2004 11:37
Ever wondered how road numbering works - Mapmaker
>>Well, actually that's when stuff was taught in schools!

Stuff? Stuff?? STUFF!!! And there I was thinking that 'stuff' is up-to-the-minute street slang for virtually anything (not all of it legal), and now I discover that it was the school curriculum in the 1960s.........
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Tue 27 Jul 2004 11:59
Ever wondered how road numbering works - just a bloke
>>Well, actually that's when stuff was taught in schools!
Stuff? Stuff?? STUFF!!! And there I was thinking
that 'stuff' is up-to-the-minute street slang for virtually anything (not all
of it legal), and now I discover that it was the
school curriculum in the 1960s.........


As a mapmaker surely you knew all this stuff anyway?
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Tue 27 Jul 2004 15:45
Ever wondered how road numbering works - terryb
>>Well, actually that's when stuff was taught in schools!
Stuff? Stuff?? STUFF!!! And there I was thinking
that 'stuff' is up-to-the-minute street slang for virtually anything (not all
of it legal), and now I discover that it was the
school curriculum in the 1960s.........


Kids these days - think they've invented it all! There ain't nothin' new (God, I'm sounding like my Dad!) :o)

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Terry
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Tue 27 Jul 2004 17:23
Ever wondered how road numbering works - L'escargot
>>Well, actually that's when stuff was taught in schools!
Stuff? Stuff?? STUFF!!! And there I was thinking
that 'stuff' is up-to-the-minute street slang for virtually anything (not all
of it legal), and now I discover that it was the
school curriculum in the 1960s.........


I can go one better than that! When I was at university in 1957, the word "stuff" was used by our Thermodynamics lecturer as a name for any mixture of air and water vapour, especially if the proportions of each constituent was unknown.
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L'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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Tue 27 Jul 2004 12:41
Ever wondered how road numbering works - mare
Yes i did wonder and found out years ago. it explains the logic of the A361 between Beckhampton and Swindon is the A4361 north of the A4, but not why it is still the A361 north of Swindon.

And i know where phone codes come from

Just off to set up anoraks.com website, unless someone already has...

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