A500 road

Direction	North - South/East-West (Part Circular)
Start	Nantwich
Primary destinations	Crewe Kidsgrove Stoke-on-Trent
End	Clayton
Construction began	1962
Construction ended	2006
Roads joined	M6 motorway A34 road A50 road A52 road A53 road A527 road

The A500 is a major road in Staffordshire and Cheshire, England. It is dual carriageway for most of its length and connects Nantwich, junctions 16 and 15 of the M6 motorway with the city of Stoke-on-Trent. Because of its shape between the motorway junctions, it is known locally as the D-Road. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Nantwich is a market town in south Cheshire, England, in the Borough and parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich. ... The colour scheme used to denote a primary route. ... Map sources for Crewe at grid reference SJ705557 Crewe is a town in south Cheshire, in the north west of England. ... 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. ... Clayton is a suburb and a ward in the south of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M6. ... This article concerns the M6 motorway in England. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The A34 is a major road in England. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... // Current Route North and West of the M1 Motorway The centre of Warrington via Junction 20 of the M6, Knutsford, Holmes Chapel, Kidsgrove and Stoke on Trent to Junction 24A the M1 near Kegworth via Derbys southern bypass. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 373 × 184 pixelsFull resolution (373 × 184 pixel, file size: 6 KB, MIME type: image/png) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... The A52 is a major road in England. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The A53 is a route on the UK highway network that runs from Shrewsbury, in the English county of Shropshire, to Buxton, in the English county of Derbyshire. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 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. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... This early German Autobahn uses a dual carriageway design. ... Nantwich is a market town in south Cheshire, England, in the Borough and parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich. ... This article concerns the M6 motorway in England. ... This page is about Stoke-on-Trent in England. ... Motorway symbol in UK, France and Ireland. ...

Route

A500 Shavington bypass.

Part of the original A500 near Audley.

The city road junction as originally built.

Single carrigeway bypass of Nantwich.

The road is the primary access route for traffic to and from almost all areas of Stoke-on-Trent. It runs to the south of Newcastle, then turns north to pass between Stoke and Fenton before passing through the disused Wolstanton Colliery before turning east through Talke Pits before crossing the M6 at junction 16. It continues south of Crewe before turning north around Nantwich where it ends. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 65 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A500 near Audley Looking west along the dual carriageway from the bridge at the junction with the road between Audley and Alsager. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 65 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A500 near Audley Looking west along the dual carriageway from the bridge at the junction with the road between Audley and Alsager. ... St. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... The city of Stoke-on-Trent (also known as The Six Towns and The Potteries) is a city in The Midlands, United Kingdom. ... Fenton is one of the Six Towns of the Stoke-on-Trent conurbation which were federated in 1910. ... Talke Pits is a village in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. ...

History

The A500 was initially built from the M6 motorway at junction 16 to the A34 road at Talke. At the southern end, a dual carriageway was constructed from junction 15 of the M6 to the A34 near Trentham and this was given the number A5006. The road was then subsequently extended from Talke to the A53 road. The final section from the A34 in the south to the A53 junction was built between 1974 and 1977.^[1] The two middle junctions were to be grade separated, but due to financial constraints they were built as roundabouts. This final section was named Queensway. On completion the whole route became the A500. This article concerns the M6 motorway in England. ... The A34 is a major road in England. ... Talke is a village in the English county of Staffordshire. ... Trentham is an area in North Staffordshire, between the city of Stoke-on-Trent and the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme. ... The A53 is a route on the UK highway network that runs from Shrewsbury, in the English county of Shropshire, to Buxton, in the English county of Derbyshire. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... An example of a four-level stack interchange in the Netherlands. ... For the song by Yes, see Roundabout (song) A roundabout or rotary is a type of road junction (or traffic calming device) at which traffic streams around a central island, after first yielding (giving way) to the circulating traffic. ...

The route remained unchanged until the 1980s when the Hanford Roundabout junction had a flyover built as this was a major bottleneck for both the A500 and A34. The 1977 section east of this junction had been built with provision for the bridge, but the section built as the A5006 required realignment for the new interchange. In the late 1980s the road was extended from Junction 16 to close to Weston with connections provided to existing roads to Keele and Crewe. The A52, which at that time ran to Nantwich, was renumbered from Newcastle to Weston as a B road and the section from Weston to Nantwich was incorporated into the A500. In 1989 a bypass to the west of Nantwich was opened, extending the A500 from the south of Nantwich to its current northerly terminus with the A51.^[2] The 1980s refers to the years of and between 1980 and 1989. ... Overpass in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Flyover in Miami Beach, Florida An overpass (In UK, India, Hong Kong flyover) is a bridge, road or similar structure that crosses over another road. ... A bottleneck is literally the neck of a glass or pottery bottle. ... There are many things called Weston: Places Australia Weston, Australian Capital Territory Weston Park, Canberra Weston, New South Wales Canada Weston, Nova Scotia Weston, Ontario, now part of Toronto Borneo (Sabah) Weston, Sabah United Kingdom Weston, Berkshire Weston, Cheshire Weston, Cornwall Weston-on-Trent, Derbyshire Weston, Devon Weston, Dorset Weston... It is rumoured that in the north of England lies a mythical village known as Keele. ... Map sources for Crewe at grid reference SJ705557 Crewe is a town in south Cheshire, in the north west of England. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The A51 road is a road in England linking Kingsbury in Warwickshire (just east of Birmingham), with Chester in Cheshire. ...

In 1993 a proposal was made to add the missing flyover and underpass close to Stoke-on-Trent railway station, with another plan having already been dropped due to the cost. However, to allow a full review of the national roads programme this scheme was suspended.^[1] In 1997 the A50 was rerouted through Stoke-on-Trent to meet the A500 at Sideway. This led to a large increase in traffic using the Stoke section of the road - in some sections it carries 60,000 vehicles per day. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Stoke-on-Trent railway station is a main-line train station in the United Kingdom. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Current Route North and West of the M1 Motorway The centre of Warrington via Junction 20 of the M6, Knutsford, Holmes Chapel, Kidsgrove and Stoke on Trent to Junction 24A the M1 near Kegworth via Derbys southern bypass. ...

On the approach to Hough was a narrow single lane bridge which was added to with a Bailey bridge in 1993.^[3] In September 2003, the Shavington bypass opened to reroute the road away from three villages on the former A52 section.^[4] This was built to dual carriageway standards with provision for further junctions to new development sites. Hough is a surname, and may refer to Charlie Hough Donald Hough Emerson Hough Greg Hough Henry Hughes Hough James Hough, fictional character Jerry F. Hough John Hough Kenneth Hough Michael Hough Mike Hough Richard Hough Stephen Hough Walter Hough Paul Hough Thornton Hough Hough Green Hough Riots Hough transform... Bailey bridge over the Coppename river at Witagron, Suriname. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2002 a local pressure group proposed that the Nantwich bypass should be renumbered as the A51 to keep traffic out of the town centre.^[5] For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Work began on 16th February, 2004 on the A500 Pathfinder Project to replace the final two roundabouts in Stoke with underpasses. The project involved alterations to the path of the Trent and Mersey Canal and River Trent, along with new provisions for pedestrians. The work was carried out by Edmund Nuttall Limited and was planned to be completed in Spring 2006. Following a number of delays^[6] the road opened on Tuesday 26th September 2006, with the southbound traffic in the morning and northbound traffic in the afternoon..^[7] 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal linking the River Trent at Shardlow in Derbyshire to the River Mersey at Runcorn in Cheshire. ... For other uses see Trent River. ... Edmund Nuttall Limited is a major group of construction and civil engineering businesses. ... Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones, the transition from winter into summer. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Junctions

*The route runs in a semi-circular direction in Stoke-On-Trent. The table has its northern terminus at the top

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Trivia

• D is also the Roman numeral representing the number 500.

The system of Roman numerals is a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, and was adapted from Etruscan numerals. ...

References

External links

• Road to Nowhere: A500
• Highways Agency – Pathfinder Project Scheme
• a500.co.uk - Contractor's Official Site

• Map and aerial photo of A500 road from Multimap.com
• Other map and aerial photo sources

	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 - A518 - A519
	A525 - A528 - A530 - A533 - A556 - A562 - A563 - A565 - A570 - A574 - A580 - A583
	A590 - A591 -A592 - A594 - A595 - A596 -
	A5012 - A5025 - A5036 - A5038
	A5103 - A5112 - A5117 - A5124 - A5127 - A5130
	A5183 - A5199 - A5300
	List of A roads in Zone 5