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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

On the One Show last night, Hardeep Singh Kholi (spelling?) asked about favourite roads and cited the A591 in the Lake District as one of his.

The southern section of the A49 in Shropshire and Herefordshire is high on my list.

When we lived in Coventry in the 70s and went to visit my parents in Cheshire for a weekend, we often used to eschew the M6 in favour of the A51 and I've still got a soft spot for it.

I would have nominated the A54 from Chester to Buxton but for the fact that you have to drive right through Congleton on a most obtuse permutation of routes.

The section of the A59 from Harrogate to Clitheroe is another that I like very much. Don't forget to build in a stop at Skipton if you're ever on the route.

But my clear winner is the A686 from Penrith to Hexham. It's got breathtakingly dramatic scenery, the Hartside Pass, a cafe right at the top of the pass and the attractions of the little market town of Alston about halfway along its route.

Your nominations?

Ian.

colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

I like the M1 Motorway coming out of London when it's very late at night and there's nobody else about. I get home quicker.
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Minx · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:10 pm Post subject:

I'd need to think about my favourite road, but I can say without hesitation which is my least favourite road - the A14 through Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire etc.

If they could bottle that road and serve it up at bedtime, no-one in the world would ever need to look at another sleeping pill. Cool

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Meant to add the Northumberland Coastal Route to my list. The section round Warkworth is especially spectacular and a stop at Seahouses for fish and chips is a real treat.

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

In the Lake District the A 592 through Kirkstone Pass and round Ullswater is preferable to Hardeep's A 591, where you've usually got a bus or large articulated lorry in front, obscuring the view.

I do like the A1 northbound, especially where it turns left and the Angel of the North hoves into view, if only because I know that the next interesting thing I'm likely to see is the bridge over the River Tweed at Coldstream.

He did mention, I think, that it was a list confined to England. There are so many spectacular in Scotland you'd never be able to make up your mind.
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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject:

My favourite road is the A303 as it leads to our finest county - Devonshire!
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Agree with all comments re the eastern Borders. The western Borders perhaps aren't quite as spectacular but we had a super holiday in Dumfriesshire some years ago and included trips to the Ayrshire coast and Edinburgh.

Don't forget that my adoptive county of Northumberland has some of the best scenery in England and it's quiet because of under-discovery. See you here on holiday one day, perhaps?

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Indeed, Ian. We have had a week at Seahouses and explored that corner of Northumbria. It was lovely, even the weather behaved itself

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I've been to that pub lots of times. It's not very good, actually (a bit touristy with lots of noisy kids making a mess). There's a very good Italian Restuarant just up around the corner to the left opoosite the car park.

In the lower picture, I used to go to school in a Leyland bus just like the one in the foreground. Upstairs had wide bench seats and a right-side recessed aisle. our buses also had a roof, of course, which is handy when it was raining.
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Thanks for pics.

We've been to Holy Island several times and on one occasion stopped overnight at a B and B. It's like a different world when the tide's in and no one can get on or off the island.

Ian.