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Honiton
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Honiton is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter,17 miles north east of Exeter in the county of Devon. Honiton has an estimated at 11,822. The town grew along the line of the Fosse Way, the ancient Roman road linking Exeter to Lincoln on which it was an important stopping point, the location is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Honetone, meaning Hunas tun or farmstead. It became an important market town, known for its lace making that was introduced by Flemish immigrants in the Elizabethan era, the town also became known for its pottery. In 1765 the town was destroyed by fire. Georgian houses were built to replace some of those that had been destroyed. The buildings of High Street are almost all Georgian, dating from after the two fires of 1747 and 1765, of particular interest are Marwood House,1619, and the Manor House, which was originally a coaching inn. Honiton Garage dates from about 1700 and the Market Hall has a modest early-19th-century stone front, St Michaels Parish Church, which was rebuilt in 1911 after a fire, is situated on a small hill above the town. The old church was large and perfectly rectangular, it was built in the Perpendicular style, the west tower and the outer walls are all that remains of the old building. The cost of the building was paid by Bishop Courtenay of Exeter, lord of the manor of Honiton and by John. The mid-19th-century St Pauls Church was designed by Charles Fowler and is situated in the centre of the town and its erection in 1835 required an act of Parliament and the demolition of half of the adjacent Allhallows Chapel. It was built in 1837–38 in a style incorporating elements of Romanesque architecture, there are pinnacles on the tower and the arcades inside have tall columns, above the nave is a clerestory which resembles those in early Christian basilicas. Honiton is host to the annual Honiton Agricultural Show, an event dating back to 1890. The Hot Pennies ceremony takes place annually on the first Tuesday after 19 July in the High Street of the town, and dates back to the reign of King Stephen. The ceremony has its roots in the practice of landed gentry taking pleasure in throwing hot pennies from windows to local peasants, the custom also had the purpose of encouraging people to travel to the town from the surrounding area to attend a subsequent fair. Warm pennies are then thrown from a number of balconies in the High Street to crowds of local people, the pole is then kept on display for the following fair week. The children of Honiton Community College are allowed off campus for the duration of the Hot Pennies Ceremony itself, Honiton has two primary schools, Honiton Primary School and Littletown Primary School, and a secondary school, Honiton Community College, which includes a sixth form. Honiton is at the junction of the A35, the A30, the A30 now bypasses the town to the north
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A30 road
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The A30 is a major road in England, running south-west from London to Lands End. The road has one of the most important in Britain since the 17th century. It used to provide the most direct route from London to the South West, nowadays much of this function is performed by the M3 motorway, however, the section from Honiton to Lands End is a dual carriageway for most of its length and retains trunk road status. The A30 begins at Henlys Roundabout, a junction with the A4 near Hounslow and it runs along the south side of Heathrow Airport, then past Ashford and Staines-upon-Thames, before reaching the M25 motorway. This first section is entirely dual carriageway, after crossing the M25, the A30 runs parallel to the M3 all the way to Basingstoke, bypassing Egham and passing through Bagshot, Camberley, Hartley Wintney and Hook. Just west of Basingstoke, at junction 8 of the M3, the A30 runs parallel to this road all the way to just north-east of Honiton, passing through Stockbridge, Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Yeovil, Crewkerne and Chard. Between the M25 and Honiton, the A30 is mostly single carriageway, however, there are short stretches of dual carriageway from Camberley to Basingstoke, which has a dualled inner ring road, two between Stockbridge and Salisbury, and between Sherborne and Yeovil. This section is a road as far as Penzance. It is mostly dual carriageway, but there are short sections of single carriageway. To pass Exeter, through traffic can join the M5 motorway for three miles, West of Exeter, the A30 is dual carriageway through Devon and into Cornwall, bypassing Whiddon Down, Okehampton and Launceston. The dual carriageway continues through Cornwall to Bodmin Moor, where there is a stretch of single carriageway. The dual carriageway resumes until Carland Cross, after there is a single carriageway stretch to Chiverton Cross. Highways England are currently progressing plans to dual this section of carriageway, from Chiverton Cross, the dual carriageway bypasses Redruth and Camborne. The A30 returns to single carriageway west of Camborne, and a bypass takes the road around Hayle. Between Hayle and Penzance, the A30 returns to the original route, approaching Penzance, the A30 briefly becomes a dual carriageway once again. Once west of Penzance, the A30 becomes a rural road running through or past several villages. A large section of the A30 follows the course of the historic London – Lands End coaching road, the road appeared on John Ogilbys map of Britain in 1675, and was covered by Ogilbys later strip-maps showing The Road from London to The Lands End in Cornwall. Beyond Exeter, the route went via Plymouth and then followed the Cornish south coast via St Austell down to Penzance, some distance away from the modern A30
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A37 road
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The A37 is a major road in southern England. It runs north from the A35 at Dorchester in Dorset into Somerset through Yeovil, the road is entirely single carriageway, except in the Yeovil and Bristol built-up areas, at Ilchester, and north of Dorchester. The road is subject to a stream of speed restrictions where it winds through a number of small villages and these parts of the road can be dangerous, especially where wide vehicles pass on sections where buildings are close to the road. Such a route has now superseded by the M27 and M3. From the Podimore roundabout northeast of Ilchester to Shepton Mallet the route traces that of the Fosse Way, one of the worst accident spots on the A37 was the A371 junction just south of Shepton Mallet. The junction was very busy and suffered long traffic queues due to the nature of the road. This muddled configuration resulted in road traffic accidents, many of which were fatal. After a long campaign for the junction to be replaced, a roundabout was constructed in 1999 significantly improving road safety, there have been few other construction schemes on the road in recent decades. In recent years most of the lanes, provided on steep stretches just south of Bristol, have been blocked out with chevrons
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A354 road (Great Britain)
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The A354 is a primary route in England which runs from Salisbury in Wiltshire to Easton on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, a total distance of 51 miles. From Salisbury the road crosses Cranborne Chase and briefly merges with the A350 at the Blandford Forum bypass before crossing the Dorset Downs,7 miles to the west it splits from the Dorchester bypass and runs south. The road now bypasses Upwey and Broadwey on a new section of road which has some 2 lane sections going north and 1 lane continuously going south towards Weymouth, after the old and new sections meet at Manor Roundabout the road follows down Weymouth Way alongside Radipole Lake. The final stretch runs across a bridge over Chesil beach onto Portland. The project was to build a 3. 75-mile single carriageway road, with crawler lane along part, the main carriageway of the Weymouth Relief Road opened on Thursday 17 March 2011. The 2012 Olympics at Portland played a factor in making £89m funding for the road available. 1983 - The Dorset Structure Plan proposed to construct the A354 Weymouth, december 1987 to April 1988 - a public inquiry was held into proposals for development in the Lorton area which included a new single carriagewayroute running from Mount Pleasant to Littlemoor. These proposals were refused consent by the Secretary of State, between 1989 and 1992 - various studies and consultation exercises undertaken into alternative route options and alignments for a dual carriageway road between the Ridgeway and north Weymouth. 1992 - work on an application and Environmental Statement for this scheme began. July 1994 - a dual carriageway road along the alignment was granted planning permission,1996 - A public inquiry into the Compulsory Purchase and Side Road Orders was held. The Secretary of State approved these orders, however, work on the scheme was never started as, following a Government review of road construction, the funding for the scheme was not forthcoming. The planning permission lapsed after 5 years, following the lapse of permission Dorset County Council undertook a review of the previously consented scheme. September 2005 - a planning application and Environmental Statement for a road along the route was submitted by Dorset County Council. As a result of the councils re-assessment, changes were made to the September 2005 proposals, March 2011 - Relief Road was opened Dorset for you - Weymouth Relief Road
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A31 road
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The A31 is a major trunk road in southern England that runs from Guildford in Surrey to Bere Regis in Dorset. The old route to Winchesters centre then Romsey and the New Forest forms two roads, the B3404 and A3090 roads and is marked for cyclists and it passes Wimborne Minster and by-passes Charborough Park before terminating at a roundabout junction with the A35 road at Bere Regis. The A35 is not a road east of Bere Regis. The A31 is part of the ancient route from London to Winchester, many sections of the A31 were upgraded to dual carriageway in the 1960s, except for the section of road running through the New Forest. The upgrade of the A31 through the New Forest started in the early 1960s, the Governments intention was to create at least one high-speed route to the south coast, while the guardians of the forest, the Verderers, resisted any further development. The first section of the A31 to be dualled was the section that the M27 feeds into at Jct1, further developments occurred from Ringwood to Picket Post near the turn-off for Burley. From 1966-1972, the sections were completed rapidly due to the construction of the M27 motorway up to Jct 1. The Highways Agency declares the New Forest A31 section as being an abnormal, the westbound route, particularly, suffers from poor horizontal and vertical alignment due to its original function as an old single carriageway. Dorset County Council cites relieving this junction as a priority in the Bournemouth LTP 2006-2011. In December 2014 the Government announced a series of schemes as part of an investment in transport infrastructure that included widening the Westbound carriageway to 3 lanes. This section of road is single carriageway for its length, a long section around Winterborne Zelston has a 40 mph speed limit. There are no good overtaking places on this stretch of road due to its narrow, there are three long straight sections of road along Charborough Park, at the end of each straight there is blind bend. Due to the lack of alternative overtaking places traffic use this stretch of road to overtake, the 6 ft wall that runs alongside the road has many holes, and repaired sections which have been hit by cars over the years. The A31 crosses the A350 at a large roundabout, due to the volume of traffic crossing this roundabout on both the A350 and A31, clear lane markings have been added to ease congestion. Sections along the A31 have been widened or straightened and junctions enhanced, a section of the A31 between Winchester and Ower in Hampshire is now known as the A3090. A short dual carriageway section starts from the A36 roundabout near Ower, SABRE - A31 Highways Agency A31 Route Management Strategy
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A350 road
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The A350 is a north-south primary route in southern England, that runs from the M4 motorway in Wiltshire to Poole in Dorset. The Chippenham bypass is punctuated by six more roundabouts, the last being at the Lackham College, in so doing it crosses the A420 to Bristol and the A4 for Bath to the West and Calne to the East. It then goes past the village of Lacock before reaching Melksham four miles later. The road then follows the Semington bypass, opened in 2004, to Westbury and this section of the road has two light-controlled junctions to connect the road to outlying areas of Trowbridge before reaching the Yarnbrook roundabout. This section is approximately 5 miles long, the road passes through the hamlet of Cann and the villages of Compton Abbas, Fontmell Magna, Sutton Waldron, Iwerne Minster and Stourpaine before reaching Blandford Forum. At Blandford Forum is another bypass built to ease town centre traffic where the A350 crossed and merged with the A354, the bypass still merges the two roads for a short stretch. There are four roundabouts on this section, the last of which sees the two go their separate ways. The road then passes through the villages of Charlton Marshall, Spetisbury, before reaching Poole, the road joins the A35 at a grade separated junction before separating again at a roundabout at the north east end of Holes Bay. This section is a dual carriageway as far as Poole Railway Station, the final section crosses the Black Water Channel by the Poole Bridge before terminating at the roundabout on New Harbour Road where the Ferry Port is located. When first designated in 1922 the A350 ran only from Warminster to Poole, by 1948 the road had been extended north from Warminster to Chippenham on the former routes of the A363 and the A364. In the 1990s the road was extended north from Chippenham to the M4 Motorway by renumbering the A429, the Chippenham bypass was built in the 1990s as a single carriageway and was designed for future widening to dual carriageway. Outline plans have been submitted to complete the sections, as far south as the junction with the A4 Bath Road. In 2004, the route between Melksham and Semington was replaced by a new road that bypassed Semington and, like the Chippenham bypass, was designed to be dualled at a future date, an aqueduct, New Semington Aqueduct, carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over this section. A controversial £33 million bypass around Westbury was initially proposed in 1997 with public consultation, the council submitted an initial planning application during 2005. The council said that the government indicated that it was in favour of the project in 2006, the Council presented a further planning application in 2007. The councils selected route would pass to the east of the town, the council expects it to reduce traffic through Westbury, create more space for cyclists & pedestrians and improve journey time reliability on the A350, by two minutes. The eastern bypass route is supported by the Westbury Bypass Now group, the route has been described as highly intrusive by the councils landscape officer. The scheme was called in in 2007, an Inquiry into the scheme was held in July 2008
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A338 road
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The A338 is a major primary route in southern England, that runs from the junction with the A35 at Poole in Dorset to the junction with the A420 at Besselsleigh in Oxfordshire, a distance of 84 miles. The road begins on the edge of Poole by the border with Bournemouth, before heading northward as a grade separated dual carriageway, heading northward up the east side of the Avon, it crosses to the west again near the town of Fordingbridge. It then joins the A30 road at St, marks Roundabout, before separating in a north-easterly direction to follow the entire length of the River Bourne. It has a junction with the main A303 road and then passes through the town of Tidworth. From there the road north to Collingbourne Ducis, where it twists through the village around the church to a mini-roundabout. It turns right to continue alongside the Bourne through another narrow stretch at Collingbourne Kingston to another mini-roundabout before again heading north. Near Burbage the continued route north to Swindon is designated A346 and it passes through the town of Hungerford, where it meets the A4 road. It meets the M4 motorway at junction 14, passes through the village of Great Shefford and it goes through Wantage where it meets the A417 road, and past the villages of Grove, East Hanney and Frilford. It terminates at its junction with the A420 road near Bessels Leigh,6 miles south-west of Oxford, the section of the A338 south of the A31 to the west of the Avon consists mostly of a relatively newly built road. Part is constructed along the trackbed of the former Ringwood, Christchurch, originally, the A338 went from Ringwood to Christchurch on the east side of the valley, along what is now the B3347. The Bournemouth Town Centre section of the A338 Wessex Way is carried on viaducts across the Bourne Valley. On 21 January 2010 Bournemouth Borough Council imposed a 40 mph speed limit on this section of A338 dual carriageway in an attempt to reduce the accident rate of 198 accidents in four years. In February 2011 it was announced that £20m of funding for repair works on the 6.5 miles stretch south of the junction with the A31 was turned down by the government. Dorset County Council had planned to work in September 2010. As a result of the funding request being unsuccessful, ad hoc work will now be carried out over a number of years instead of a period of about 6 months as originally planned. Dorset and Bournemouth councils are expected to meet the cost of the ad hoc work at around £1m per year and this section of the road has a poor safety record, it is heavily trafficked and the resulting risky overtaking is responsible for a number of head-on collisions. The A338 figures in Thomas Hardys Jude the Obscure, chapter 3, the point where the road crests the downs before beginning the steep drop into Wantage is the spot where young Jude stands one evening and looks out for the first time on Oxford
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A337 road
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The A337 road is a road in southern England that runs from the M27 motorway in Hampshire to Christchurch in Dorset. The A337 begins at junction 1 of the M27 motorway near Cadnam and it heads south through the New Forest to the large village of Lyndhurst. On account of the A337 being one of only a few roads into the New Forest. In Lyndhurst the A337 meets the A35 road, and rings Lyndhurst village centre as a large roundabout and it continues south through the village of Brockenhurst, where it crosses the South Western Main Line at a level crossing, to the town of Lymington. In Lymington the A337 avoids the town centre, and heads west through Everton and Downton to the town of New Milton and it crosses the border into Dorset, travels through Highcliffe High Street and terminates at a roundabout with the A35 road in Christchurch
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A36 road
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The A36 is a trunk road and primary route in southwest England that links the port city of Southampton to the city of Bath. At Bath, the A36 connects with the A4 road to Bristol, originally, the A36 continued to Avonmouth, but this section was renumbered to the A4. The majority of the A36 is built to single carriageway standard, the A36 in Salisbury acts as the citys ring road, bypassing the city centre to dual carriageway standard. Just south-east of Salisbury the largest dualled section runs for about 4 miles, the A36 reverts to single carriageway standard through Totton until it terminates
A27 road
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