The A167 is a road in North East England. Most of its route was formerly the A1 until the A1(M) was built in the 1960's. A typical rural county road in Indiana, USA, where traffic drives on the right. ... North East England is one of the regions of England. ... Also known as the Great North Road. ...

The route starts from the A168 at Topcliffe, North Yorkshire and runs to Kenton Bar, Tyne and Wear where the route continues north as the A696 after the junction with the A1. Richard Topcliffe (1532-1604) Notorious Elizabethan torturer and sadist. ... Bolton Abbey North Yorkshire is a Shire county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. ... Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East of England and consists of the estuary areas of the rivers Tyne and Wear. ...

From the Topcliffe A168 Junction, the route runs north through Northallerton, and crosses the A66 road just east of the A66(M) section. It runs on through Darlington, across A1(M) junction 59, and on to Newton Aycliffe, Ferryhill, Durham and Chester-le-Street. Map sources for Northallerton at grid reference SE3794 Northallerton is the county town of North Yorkshire, England. ... The A66 is a major road in England. ... Darlington is a town in the north-east of England. ... Location within the British Isles Newton Aycliffe is a town in County Durham, England. ... Location within the British Isles Ferryhill is a town in south-central County Durham, England with a population of around 12,000 people. ... Durham (IPA: locally, in RP) is a small city and main settlement of the City of Durham district of County Durham in North East England. ... Chester-le-Street is a market town in County Durham, England with a history going back to Roman times. ...

The A167 bypass at Chilton near Ferryhill was completed and opened to traffic on 20 June 2005. Construction had started in 2004 65 years after first proposed when the route was still the A1. Chilton is a village in County Durham, in England. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Beyond Chester-le-Street the A167 continues across the A1(M) junction 63 and through Birtley before crossing the A1 again at the junction near the Angel of the North. (The first route of the old A1 ran via Wrekenton on the present B1296. The second route ran via Low Fell on the A167. The third route ran from the A1(M) junction 65 via the A194(M) and the A19 Tyne Tunnel, to the Wide Open A1/A19 Junction.) Birtley can refer to several villages in England: Birtley, Herefordshire Birtley, Northumberland Birtley, Shropshire Birtley, Tyne and Wear (traditionally in County Durham) This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... The Angel of the North The Angel of the North is a piece of modern sculpture by Anthony Gormley, which after several attempts to locate it elsewhere was erected in Gateshead, UK. As the name suggests, it is a steel sculpture of an angel, standing 20 metres tall, with wings... The Tyne Tunnel is a two-lane toll vehicular tunnel under the River Tyne, England, completed in 1967, and connecting Jarrow on the south side of the river with Howdon on the north. ...

The A167 continues through Gateshead across the Tyne Bridge into Newcastle upon Tyne , where it becomes the A167(M) Newcastle Central Motorway for a short distance. After the city centre it reverts to single carriageway to its terminus at the Kenton Bar A1/A696 junction. Map sources for Gateshead at grid reference NZ2460 Gateshead Millennium Bridge Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear in north-east England on the south side of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne which covers the North Bank. ... The Tyne Bridge, in green, seen from the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ...

External links

BBC News: A167 Chilton Bypass Opens