A50 road
Direction	North-Southeast
Start	Warrington
End	Kegworth (M1 motorway - Jc 24)
Roads joined

A50 road
Direction	North-Southeast
Start	M1 motorway - Jc 22
End	Leicester
Roads joined

A50 west of junction 1

'The Services on the A50' ^[1].

A50 close to Longton.

The A50 passing through Frog Island, Leicester

The A50 is a major trunk road in England. It runs from Warrington to Leicester; however it used to be a much longer route. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the Borough in the north-west of England. ... Kegworth (pronounced locally as Keggoth or kegg-wuth) is a village on the River Soar, Leicestershire, England. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city and unitary authority in the English East Midlands. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 450 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 675 pixels, file size: 286 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A50 west of junction 1, my image, March 2006, jimfbleak 06:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 450 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 675 pixels, file size: 286 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A50 west of junction 1, my image, March 2006, jimfbleak 06:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 487 pixelsFull resolution (811 × 494 pixels, file size: 287 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 487 pixelsFull resolution (811 × 494 pixels, file size: 287 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Longton, located in the United Kingdom, is one of the six towns that joined together to form Stoke-on-Trent in 1910. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixels, file size: 327 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Taken by myself, 21st October 2007 I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixels, file size: 327 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Taken by myself, 21st October 2007 I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document... Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city and unitary authority in the English East Midlands. ... A63(T) trunk road A trunk road, trunk highway, or strategic road is a major road—usually connecting one or more cities, ports, airports, etc. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Borough in the north-west of England. ... Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city and unitary authority in the English East Midlands. ...

Current route

The A50 runs from the centre of Warrington via Junction 20 of the M6, Knutsford, Holmes Chapel, Kidsgrove and Stoke on Trent to Junction 24 of the M1 near Kegworth, via Derby's southern bypass. This article is about the Borough in the north-west of England. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... , Knutsford is a town and civil parish in the borough of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, located south-west of Manchester, and west of Wilmslow. ... Known formerly as Church Hulme, Holmes Chapel is a village in central Cheshire, in Congleton borough. ... Map sources for Kidsgrove at grid reference SJ8354 Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in Staffordshire, England, near the border with Cheshire. ... This page is about Stoke-on-Trent in England. ... The M1 motorway heading south towards junction 37 at Barnsley, South Yorkshire. ... Kegworth (pronounced locally as Keggoth or kegg-wuth) is a village on the River Soar, Leicestershire, England. ... Derby (pronounced dar-bee ) is a city in the East Midlands of England. ... Bypass routes are a type of bannered highway usually used when the main route of the highway goes through a town and an alternate route of the same highway goes around the highway. ...

Between Stoke and Derby what is now the A50 was planned to be the M64. The resulting A564, which borrowed the alias A50, is in effect this motorway, though unfortunately built with reduced costs and safety.It now serves the enormous Tesco shop at Longton. This has the largest floor area of any shop in the United Kingdom. The M64 motorway was planned in the 1970s to link the M6 at Stoke, and the M1 near Castle Donington, via Uttoxeter and Derby -- allowing NW-London traffic to avoid the busy M6 around Birmingham. ...

• The nine-mile £16m Blythe Bridge - Uttoxeter section (convenient for Alton Towers traffic from the north-west) opened in late 1984 as the A564.
• The six-mile £19m Hatton, Hilton and Foston Bypass opened (as the A564) in May 1995.
• The three-mile £52m section 1 of the Blythe Bridge to Queensway section opened in June 1997, and the one mile £21m section 2 opened in November 1997.
• Maybe as a reference to the former M64, the £110m sixteen-mile Derby Southern Bypass, opened in September 1997 as the A564. This was the main piece in the jigsaw of the Stoke-Derby route, and mirrored the plans for the original M64, even having three lanes in some sections - notably the section from Kegworth to the A6 junction near Derby. The A6 Derby Spur opened at the same time.
• The five-mile £20.6m Doveridge Bypass opened on 6th March 1998 also as the A564. The £2.6m A516 Etwall bypass which opened in February 1992 allowed a quicker route to the west of Derby from this section.

Once the Southern Derby Bypass was completed, it became the A50. The road is maintained privately by Connect A50 Ltd. Much of the new section of road is made of concrete. , Uttoxeter is a small market town in East Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. ... Alton Towers is one of the United Kingdoms most famous theme parks. ... The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain List of A roads beginning with 5 in Great Britain starting north/east of the A5, west of the A6, south of the Solway Firth/Eden Estuary. ... Map sources for Hatton, Derbyshire at grid reference SK214296 Hatton is a village in South Derbyshire, England. ... Hilton is a village not far from Derby. ... Blythe Bridge Village in Staffordshire, England Blythe Bridge is a village situated in the South-Eastern suburbs of the city of Stoke-on-Trent. ... Kegworth (pronounced locally as Keggoth or kegg-wuth) is a village on the River Soar, Leicestershire, England. ... This article is about the A6 road in England. ... Doveridge is a village on the borders of Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. ... The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain List of A roads beginning with 5 in Great Britain starting north/east of the A5, west of the A6, south of the Solway Firth/Eden Estuary. ... Etwall (SK 268 316) is a civil parish and village in Derbyshire, England. ... This article is about the construction material. ...

South and east of Junction 22 of the M1 Motorway, the A50 runs to the centre of the City of Leicester which is its southernmost point. Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city and unitary authority in the English East Midlands. ...

Previous routes

North of Leicester, before the dual carriageway section bypassing Derby was built, the A50 formerly went through Burton upon Trent and Ashby-de-la-Zouch to Leicester, but that section is now designated the A511 road. Map sources for Burton-upon-Trent at grid reference SK2422 Burton upon Trent also known as Burton-on-Trent, or simply Burton, is a large town straddling the River Trent in the east of Staffordshire, England, which originally grew up around the monastery of St. ... Market Street Ashby-de-la-Zouch Ashby-de-la-Zouch (formerly also Ashby-de-la-Zouche) is a small market town in the North West Leicestershire district of the county of Leicestershire, England. ... The A511 road is a 21 mile stretch of mainly single-carriageway road which runs northwest from junction 23 of the M1 motorway in Leicestershire, England to join the A50 between Uttoxeter and Derby. ...

South of Leicester, the A50 used to terminate at Hockliffe in Bedfordshire at a junction with the A5. Hockliffe is a village in Bedfordshire on the crossroads of the A5 road (formerly Watling Street) and the A4012 road. ... Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds) is a county in England that forms part of the East of England region. ... The A5 is a major road in the United Kingdom. ...

• The section from Leicester to Northampton is now designated the A5199 having been down-classified when the A14 was built to deter drivers from using this stretch assuming it was a higher grade than it is.
• The section south of Northampton was down-classified when the M1 was built as it runs parallel with the motorway and is an unsuitable alternative:
  • Between Northampton and the Newport Pagnell bypass it is now the B526.
  • Between the Newport Pagnell bypass and Junction 14 of the M1 it is now part of the A509 road.
  • From Junction 14 of the M1 to Woburn it is the A5130
  • From Woburn to Hockcliffe it is the A4012.

The old A50 used to be the main route to London from Leicester, before it was replaced in the 19th century by what is now the A6. Northampton is a large market town and a local government district in the English East Midlands region. ... The A5199 road is the direct road from Leicester to Northampton in England. ... The A14 is a major road in England, running from the Port of Felixstowe to the junction of the M1 and M6 motorways near Rugby. ... Newport Pagnell is a town in the Borough of Milton Keynes (traditional Buckinghamshire), England. ... The A509 is a short (about 30 miles/50 km) A-class road for north/south journeys in south cental England, forming the route from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire to the M1 and A5 in Milton Keynes. ... St. ... The A5130 is a road in the United Kingdom. ... The A4012 is a road in the United Kingdom. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the A6 road in England. ...

References

External links

• SABRE website.
• Highways Agency site.
• Problems with noise on concrete road surface.

	A roads in Zone 5 of the Great Britain road numbering scheme	edit
A5	A50 - A51 - A52 - A53 - A54 - A55 - A56 - A57 - A58 - A59
	A500 - A501 - A505 - A508 - A509 - A511 - A512 - A514 - A515 - A518 - A519
	A525 - A528 - A530 - A533 - A556 - A562 - A563 - A565 - A570 - A574 - A580
	A583 - A584 - A585 - A586 - A587 - A588
	A590 - A591 -A592 - A594 (Leicester) (Cumbria) - A595 - A596
	A5012 - A5025 - A5036 - A5038
	A5103 - A5112 - A5117 - A5124 - A5127 - A5130
	A5183 - A5199 - A5300
	List of A roads in Zone 5