Longest Road

[yenrod]

Does anyone know where the longest straight section of road is, in the UK...

 

[byegad]

No, but I bet the Romans are to blame!

 

[tyred]

Depends how you define straight. I know a road which travels in a straight line for miles on end but it has so many hills, it's shaped like a Sine wave.

 

[Bokonon]

A15 from Lincoln to the M180 is supposedly it, IIRC. It does kink to by-pass one town, but it looks like the original route is still there, just down-graded.

 

[Dave5N]

Islay?

 

[Dayvo]

No, but I bet the Romans are to blame!

Yeah, but apart from straight roads . . . !

 

[jay clock]

Broughton near Scunthorpe due south on what is mainly A15, looks pretty straight, but you have to go round a big roundabout at the M180. I make it about 27.5km if you go as far as an airfield near Aisthorp

But I live miles away!

 

[Dayvo]

Broughton near Scunthorpe due south on what is mainly A15, looks pretty straight, but you have to go round a big roundabout at the M180. I make it about 27.5km if you go as far as an airfield near Aisthorp

But I live miles away!

Is it a straight road?

 

[Bodhbh]

Broughton near Scunthorpe due south on what is mainly A15, looks pretty straight, but you have to go round a big roundabout at the M180. I make it about 27.5km if you go as far as an airfield near Aisthorp

But I live miles away!

Also in Lincolnshire (guess flat helps) there's the A16 south of Boston but I guess not quite as long. The old Watling Street (A5) is made up of several similar v straight sections from London right thru to Shrewsbury. It sticks out like a sore thumb compared to modern roads on a map arching across.

 

[yenrod]

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...3.413625,-0.567169&spn=0.203403,0.700378&z=11

 

[Dave5N]

Still think it's on Islay.