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A49 road

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Image:A49 near Warrington.jpg right|thumb|The A49 near Warrington. The '''A49''' is a major road in England. It runs north from Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire via Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow, Craven Arms, Church Stretton, bypasses Shrewsbury and Whitchurch, then continues through central Cheshire to Warrington, Newton-le-Willows, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan and Standish before finally terminating at its junction with the A6 road just south of Bamber Bridge, near the junction of the M6 motorway M6, M65 motorway M65 and M61 motorways. The route takes it through the Welsh Marches region. The road has a history of head-on collisions as it carries a lot of north-south traffic through Herefordshire and Shropshire with little chance for safe overtaking. A significant percentage of these accidents result in death. The road meets with the M6 motorway M6 at junction 23, and the A580 road A580 [http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/historichighways/eastlancs/index.asp East Lancashire Road]. This is near [http://www.haydock-park.co.uk Haydock Park racecourse]. It enters Newton-le-Willows and passes close to the [http://www.newtonhigh.st-helens.sch.uk Newton-le-Willows High School] and under the Liverpool to Manchester Line railway (northern route). The road enters the borough of [http://www.knowhere.co.uk/307.html Warrington]. At Winwick, Cheshire Winwick, there is a large [http://www.priory.com/homol/livpsy/Winwick.htm psychiatric hospital] and a separate dual-carriageway section of the A49 that leads to junction 22 of the M6 motorway M6 from a roundabout. From junction 9 of the M62 motorway M62, there is a dual-carriageway into Warrington, and the road passes the [http://www.warrington.ac.uk Warrington Technical College] and the William Beaumont Community High School. It has a roundabout with the A50 road A50, which is its northern-most end, and passes under the Liverpool to Manchester Line railway (southern route), then has a roundabout with the A57 road A57 and passes through the centre of Warrington. It passes over a roundabout with the A5061 situated on the River Mersey, then goes past [http://www.priestleycollege.ac.uk Priestley College]. It passes over the Manchester Ship Canal, [http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/cheshirering.html Cheshire Ring Canal Walk] and Bridgewater Canal. The road has crossroads with the B5356 and meets the A559 at junction 10 of the M56 motorway M56. The road enters Cheshire. There is crossroads with the A533 and the road crosses the Cheshire Ring Canal Walk and Trent & Mersey Canal before crossing the Acton Bridge swing bridge over the [http://www.rwns.co.uk Weaver Navigation]. The three-mile £6m Weaverham Diversion (near Northwich) opened in September 1992. The old route is now the B5142, passing near [http://www.weaverham.cheshire.sch.uk Weaverham High School]. The road passes over the West Coast Main Line railway. There is crossroads with the A556 at Cuddington, Vale Royal Cuddington and also with the A54 road A54 near [http://www.bespokes.co.uk Abbots Moss Hall], and the road passes through [http://www.cotebrookshirehorses.co.uk Cotebrook], near [http://www.cheshire.gov.uk/countryside/OutandAbout/country_parks/little_budworth_country_park.htm Little Budworth Country Park]. The two-mile £3.8m Tarporley Bypass opened in September 1986. The A51 road A51 multiplexes with the A49. [http://www.tarporley-high.cheshire.sch.uk Tarporley Community High School] is near here. The road leaves the A51. The road travels over the Shropshire Union Canal and under the Welsh Marches Line railway (to Hereford). It crosses over the River Gowy and near Bunbury, Cheshire Bunbury. The road multiplexes with the A534 and crosses over the River Weaver. At Cholmondeley, Cheshire Cholmondeley there is [http://www.aboutbritain.com/CholmondeleyCastleGardens.htm Cholmondeley Castle]. It crosses the Shropshire Union Canal again. The road enters into Shropshire and is crossed by the [http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/southcheshire.html South Cheshire Way]. The Whitchurch bypass begins with a roundabout with the B5476, the old route through the town. The three-mile £13.7m Whitchurch, Shropshire Whitchurch Bypass (also part of the A41 road A41) opened in July 1992. The bypass crosses over the railway and also multiplexes with the A525 (Stoke-on-Trent to Wrexham). At the end of the bypass, the road multiplexes as a dual-carriageway for a few miles with the A41, then leaves the A41 at a roundabout near Prees Heath, near the former RAF Tilstock airfield. The two-mile £1.3m Prees Bypass opened in August 1988. There is a staggered crossroads with the B5065, then the road passes over the River Roden, Shropshire River Roden. RAF Shawbury is a couple of miles to the east, then the road passes over the [http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/shropshire.html Shropshire Way] and through [http://www.hadnall.com Hadnall]. The Shrewsbury bypass begins at a roundabout with the A53 and A5124, then there is a roundabout with the B5062. The bypass travels over the River Severn and under the railway and multiplexes with the A5 at a roundabout. Shrewsbury was bypassed when the £64m east-west A5 road A5 bypass was built in August 1992. The route leaves the A5 at a junction on the south of the bypass, with the A5112 heading into Shrewsbury. It goes through Bayston Hill. It passes near [http://www.lythhillhouse.com/attractions.htm Lyth Hill Country Park], then through Dorrington, Shropshire Dorrington and over the railway. The road meets the A489 at Wistanstow. The road follows an upgraded route through Church Stretton: the old route follows the B4370. At Craven Arms, there is the [http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/discover.nsf Secret Hills Discovery Centre]. At [http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/shropshire/Onibury.html Onibury], there is a level crossing, one of only a few on trunk roads in England. At [http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/shropshire/Bromfield.html Bromfield], the road meets the A4113, and crosses the [http://www.secretshropshire.org.uk/Content/Learn/Landscape/Agriculture.asp River Onny]. Near the B4365 junction the road is crossed by the Shropshire Way. The three-mile £4m Ludlow Bypass opened in the summer of 1979. The bypass passes over then under the railway, then over the River Teme. The former route of the A49 is the B4361. After the bypass, the road passes over the railway. At Woofferton, there is a T-junction with the A456 road A456. Woofferton has a [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/woofferton.asp large radio transmitting station] with a Mediumwave MW transmitter for BBC Hereford and Worcester Radio Hereford and Worcester. The road enters Herefordshire. The one-mile £1.4m Brimfield Bypass opened in March 1983. The four-mile £9m Leominster Bypass opened in November 1988. There are plans for a nine-mile dual-carriageway Hereford bypass.

External links
* Highways Agency [http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/4777.aspx A49 Ross-on-Wye to Shrewsbury Route Management Strategy] * BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3814643.stm Enquiry into A49 safety.] Category:Transport in Shropshire Category:Herefordshire Category:Transport in Cheshire Category:Roads in England 4-0049 {{England-stub}} {{UK-road-stub}}

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