Everything about A417 Road totally explained
The
A417 is a main road in
England.
It runs from
Streatley at its junction with the
A329 (between
Reading and
Wallingford) to
Wantage, over the picturesque
Berkshire Downs. In Wantage, it negotiates the market place (around
King Alfred's statue and thence to
Faringdon, via
Stanford in the Vale (speed-limited here to 30 m.p.h.). At Faringdon, its traditional route over
Folly Hill and down through the market place has been blocked by the more recent development of the
A420. Turning left on the A420 and right at the next roundabout, through Faringdon, leads on to
Lechlade, where it crosses the
River Thames. It then runs past the
Cotswold Water Park, through
Fairford to
Cirencester and thence to
Gloucester and
Ledbury, to a point south of
Leominster, where it joins the
A49.
From the start of the Cirencester bypass to Gloucester, the A417 forms part of a major new dual-carriageway route (
A419/A417) connecting the
M4 (junction 15) with the
M5 at Gloucester (junction 11A). At the
A429 roundabout on the older Cirencester bypass, the A417 follows the A429 north for one mile, where it passes a
Little Chef, then resumes when it joins the newer bypass (which is also the A417). There is a large
BP service station here and a
Texaco one further north near a roadside restaurant. The six-mile Cirencester & Stratton Bypass opened on December 9th 1997. This route carries traffic between the ports of the south coast and the industrial Midlands. The four-mile dual-carriageway North of Stratton to Nettleton Improvement opened on January 16th 1998. The roundabout at the end of this section often has congestion during peak hours.
The two-mile £2.4m single-carriageway
Birdlip Bypass opened in December 1988. This point, before the
Air Balloon roundabout, has a grand vista of the
Severn Valley. After the roundabout and the Air Balloon pub, the road turns sharply and there's a dangerously steep gradient. This is a
bottleneck at peak times, and there are
plans
for a dual-carriageway section here in the near future. The three-mile £36m
Brockworth Bypass opened in December 1995, and included a new junction 11a of the
M5.
Through
Gloucester, the road overlaps the
A40 Gloucester northern bypass past a large
Shell petrol station, and from the end of this bypass, at a roundabout, the road goes north-west through the village of
maisemore, past
Hartpury College, then through the village
Hartpury and then past a
BP petrol station. The A417 then passes through the twin villages of
Corse and
Staunton. It crosses the
M50 Ross Spur motorway at junction 2, then meets the
Ledbury bypass, where the road noticeably widens out, and has many large roundabouts. Between Gloucester and Ledbury they're many changes of
speed limit. From
Ledbury, it goes west, overlapping the A438, then at a set of traffic lights next to a
Texaco petrol station, known as the
Trumpet Crossroad, the road goes north-west along a yet more high-hedged, narrow road. It meets the A49 at a wide junction just south of
Leominster, opposite an
Esso petrol station and a Little Chef at
Hope under Dinmore.
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