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The A420 is a road between Bristol and Oxford in England. This article is about the English city. ...
This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
Beginning on Old Market Street near the centre of Bristol, it passes through Kingswood before leaving the city on the East side. From here it travels eastward over limestone country, to the north of Bath, to Chippenham in Wiltshire. As a result of the building of the M4 motorway and subsequent road modernisation, it has lost its identity to the B4069 through Sutton Benger and to the North of RAF Lyneham and its limestone ridge. This article is about the English city. ...
Kingswood is a town in South Gloucestershire, England; it is on the eastern outskirts of Bristol (see below). ...
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST, internally called HT-7U) is a project being undertaken to construct an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. ...
For other uses, see Limestone (disambiguation). ...
, Bath is a small city in Somerset, England most famous for its historic baths fed by three hot springs. ...
Statistics Population: 30,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: ST919733 Administration District: North Wiltshire Shire county: Wiltshire Region: South West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Wiltshire Services Police force: Wiltshire Constabulary Fire and rescue: Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service Ambulance: Great Western Post office...
Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ...
The M4 motorway is a motorway in Great Britain linking London with Wales. ...
B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads. ...
Sutton Benger is a small village in the county of Wiltshire in England. ...
RAF Lyneham is a Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. ...
At Lyneham, it picks up the A3102 (this stretch was formerly called the A420 as well, but was renumbered) northeast to Swindon. Leaving Swindon by way of Stratton St Margaret, it crosses the A419 to travel under the Great Western Main Line at the Acorn Bridge and by-pass Shrivenham (the road originally went through Shrivenham, but the by-pass was built in the mid '80's) and Watchfield, then on towards Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse. A new section by-passes Faringdon, under Folly Hill and crosses the A417. Lyneham is a large village (often refered to as a small town) in northern Wiltshire located on the A3102 road between the towns of Calne and Wootton Bassett. ...
The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain List of A roads beginning with 3 in Great Britain starting west of the A3 and south of the A4. ...
, For other places with the same name, see Swindon (disambiguation). ...
Stratton St Margaret is a civil parish in the borough of Swindon, in Wiltshire, England. ...
The A419 road is an English dual carriageway trunk road between Chiseldon near Swindon at junction 15 of the M4 with the A346, and Whitminster in Gloucestershire. ...
Maidenhead Railway Bridge The Great Western Main Line is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington station to Temple Meads station in Bristol. ...
Shrivenham is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Oxfordshire (though formerly in Berkshire), adjacent to the border with Wiltshire. ...
Shrivenham is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Oxfordshire (though formerly in Berkshire), adjacent to the border with Wiltshire. ...
Watchfield is a village and civil parish, near Shrivenham and the A420, in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire) // Watchfield is mainly comprised of military accommodation for the Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) and the Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC) in the parish, as well as...
, The Folly, from the A420 Faringdon market place All Saints church, Faringdon Numerous borings in a Cretaceous cobble, Faringdon, England; these are excellent examples of fossil bioerosion. ...
The Vale of White Horse is a local government district of Oxfordshire in England. ...
, The Folly, from the A420 Faringdon market place All Saints church, Faringdon Numerous borings in a Cretaceous cobble, Faringdon, England; these are excellent examples of fossil bioerosion. ...
The A417 is a main road in England. ...
The A420 then travels the corallian limestone ridge that forms the Northwest border of the Vale of White Horse, travelling past Littleworth, Buckland and Longworth. A new dual-carriageway section by-passes Southmoor and Kingston Bagpuize, on its way to Oxford. Corallian Limestone is a coralliferous sedimentary rock, laid down in Jurassic times. ...
Littleworth is the name of more than one place. ...
Buckland is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. ...
Longworth is a beautiful village and civil parish, located near Kingston Bagpuize and Southmoor, in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire). ...
A typical British dual carriageway, this one being the A63(T) near Hull A dual carriageway or divided highway is a road or highway in which the two directions of traffic are separated by a central barrier or strip of land, known as a central reservation or median. ...
Southmoor is a village in the civil parishes of Longworth and Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire). ...
Kingston Bagpuize is a village in the Vale of the White Horse in Oxfordshire, England. ...
This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ...
A further dual-carriageway section descends Cumnor Hill, to give a view of the "City of Dreaming Spires" that is Oxford from the west. It then passes the Oxford Ring Road, through the suburb of Botley and down the Botley Road to central Oxford. Within Oxford, Oxpens, then Thames Street, parts of St Aldate's then the High Street, despite it being restricted to most motor traffic. [1]. The road then connects across Magdalen Bridge to St Clements and East Oxford with the suburb of Headington (up the notoriously steep Headington Hill), before terminating at the Green Road roundabout. Cumnor Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Cumnor, to the west of the city of Oxford in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). ...
The Oxford ring road is a ring road around the city of Oxford, England. ...
Botley is a small suburb just west of the Oxford city boundary. ...
Botley Road is the main arterial road into Oxford, England from the west. ...
Oxford Town Hall on St Aldates. ...
Carfax, at the west end of the High Street, Oxford. ...
St Clements is a street in Oxford, England. ...
Oxford East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
The Headington Shark Headington is a residential suburb of Oxford, England, lying on top of a hill of the same name overlooking the city of Oxford in the river valley below. ...
Headington Hill is a hill in the east of Oxford, England, in the suburb of Headington. ...
Large vehicles such as lorries are advised by large signs at Oxford and Swindon not to take this route and use the alternative A34, from Junction 13 of the M4. However, this advice is frequently ignored resulting in very slow moving traffic on an already busy route. This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ...
, For other places with the same name, see Swindon (disambiguation). ...
Site of Fastest Speeding Ticket
The A420 in Oxfordshire was the site of the crime of the fastest driver ever caught in a routine speed check in the UK. On 27 January 2007, Timothy Brady, a 33 year-old man from Harrow in London, was clocked at 172 miles per hour (277 kilometers per hour, or 77 meters per second) in a Porsche 911 Turbo that he had taken without permission from his employer, a luxury car hire firm.[2] On 24 September 2007, Brady was disqualified from driving and sentenced to 10 weeks in jail. Alternative meanings: Harrow, London, a place in the London Borough of Harrow; Harrow School, a famous public school in the United Kingdom; The Harrow, a fantasy and horror magazine. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
The Porsche 930 is the original Porsche 911 Turbo produced from 1975 to 1989. ...
References - ^ Email from Oxfordshire County Council Highways, 23 October 2007
- ^ BBC article about 172 mph speeding ticket
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