The A5183 road is the A5 road in disguise. It covers the road from Junction 9 of the M1 motorway to Edgware in London, largely along Watling Street. The renumbering was to prevent drivers of heavy southbound vehicles assuming that a low number '5' indicated a superior quality road which this stretch is not as it is narrow in many places. United Kingdom. ... There are also M1 motorways in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland The M1 is a major north-south motorway in England connecting London to Yorkshire, where it joins the A1(M) near Wetherby. ... Edgware is a place in the London Borough of Barnet in north London. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Watling Street was a Roman road which went from Dover on the southeast coast of England and is generally believed to have terminated at Viroconium (now Wroxeter in Shropshire). ...
Possibly the main beneficiary of this renumbering is the city of St Albans that used to be 'host' to both the A5 and the A6. A similar subterfuge has been made with that part of the A6, which is now renumbered to the A1081 road. St Albans (thus spelt, no apostrophe or dot) is the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles (35. ... The A6 is a major road in England. ...
It was constructed by Thomas Telford and large stretches of the road in Wales remain much as it was originally built with many of the toll houses still present.
However, the road itself continues as the A5183 from Edgware to Elstree, Borehamwood, Radlett, St Albans and Redbourn, to junction 9 of the M1, where it becomes numbered as the A5 again.
Passing through urban Brownhills, the road is intersected by roundabouts and slip roads for the M6 Toll motorway before it continues via Cannock to Telford.
The Holyhead Road was of vital economic and strategic significance in the recently-united United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, connecting as it did the capital cities of the two principal islands in the Kingdom.
This is because the land on the "uninhabited" side of the road is part of the Wakefield Lodge estate, former residence of the Dukes of Grafton.
Before construction of the toll road, the roundabout was very strange and had all the ramps for grade separation between the A5 west of the junction and the A5148.
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