Longest Continuously Named Road in England

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Whitehall Road, at just over 11 miles, is one of the longest continually named roads in england, that i know of. It starts in Leeds, and goes southwest towards Halifax, but stopping short, just before Hipperholme, when it changes name to Leeds Road. For most of its length, it carries the A58

― -- (688), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose that local names for really long Roman Streets (Fosse Way, Watling St) are not counted as being continuous. Bah.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i was just thinking watling st.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was Icknield Way?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

wiki doesn't tell me how old it is.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

long i mean.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

sunset blvd in LA is 24 miles. wilshire is about 16.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Western Ave in Upstate NY is Western Ave for hundreds of miles!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

stop it you, start an america one!

― -- (688), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, alright, how long is Watling Street? Or does it get called silly things like "High Street" as it goes through villages?

(Though actually, proper Roman Roads don't go through villages as the Saxons liked to build their villages off roads, for safety reasons.)

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

watling st. is watling st all the way through milton keynes, but i don't think it's quite 11 miles.. it gets broken through stoney stratford for a very small stretch as "london road" before restarting, which cocks the lot up

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

There are two pubs in Stony Stratford called the Cock and Bull. Travellers would stop off here and tell their tall tales to the locals. Hence cock and bull story.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

There's Barton Street in Lincolnshire, from Keelby to Ludborough, 12.7 miles long; and, longer, High Street, from Caistor towards Horncastle, 19.8 miles long.

(distances according to MS Autoroute)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

(High St may be longer - the 19.8 miles is to the point where it joins the A158 into Horncastle, but both of the online maps I've looked at do not give a name for the A158 until it reaches Horncastle itself, a few miles further south)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Do freeways/highways count? I'm sure the Hume Hwy from Melbourne to Sydney is like, 900km plus.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

O but it isnt enerlish. Me no read gude.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

"M1" is pretty long

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

i think we're talking about actual roads, not freeways or highways -- that's cheating.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

M6 is longer though.

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― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder how long the Great North Road is - I can't be arsed trying to measure the longest bit

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

i think we're talking about actual roads, not freeways or highways

Ah good point in which case pls disregard my cockwaving on the US roads thread obv :)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Have you guys ever found out about abandoned/rerouted roads? I know a few from colonial times that were abandoned in the 1800s. One goes square across my parents' land.

Also, if a road is named "[x] rod way" what does that mean? None of the dimensions of the road are close to the number of rods specified.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

If that's allowed, Ken, then the A1 beats it (400miles+). But I don't think it is.

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― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I bet the A1 has other names for bits of its route though. I know the A6 does.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

There's definitely a 19-mile stretch of Great North Road from Tempsford to Alconbury, mostly Great North Road, but the A1 appears to be called that all the way from Peterborough to Grantham, as far as I can tell.

(the furthest south stretch of Great North Road I've found isn't on the A1 at all - it's in Finchley, and it's the A1000. Coincidentally, my friend Miranda lives just by the junction where it meets Archway Road.)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

(yes, I *am* that bored right now)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Peterborough-Grantham Great North Road: about 31 miles. North of Grantham there don't seem to be any long stretches where it doesn't lost its name at villages.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but it's always the A1 even in places where it's known locally as something else. I guess this is why we're discounting these sort of road names; the rarer thing is the "local" name which continues for many miles.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Not always - most of the bypasses where the A1 no longer follows the Great North Road are fairly small, but the two are about five miles apart for most of the Doncaster/Retford bypass (southbound round Doncaster you only regain the Great North Road at the second A57 roundabout, south of Retford), and follow completely different routes from Hatfield to Finchley.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I didn't mean the Great North Road is always the A1, I was responding to Tim's point about the A1 having other names. My point is the A1 is always (at least) the A1 and (I think) it runs continuously for over 400 miles.

But that's not the point of this thread.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

There's a Loughborough Road that runs all the way from Nottingham to Loughborough (about 15 miles), but I think it changes to Nottingham Road towards the end...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

yeah you're right mike .. i did mention the motorways because (afaik) they don't have any other names (what tim meant?) but yes it is kind of cheating because the point of this thread is about proper roads like with real names, rather than "routes" like A roads etc and which motorways are really more akin to, than a road.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps you could start a numbered road thread. you could talk about bukkake on it

― -- (688), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Uxbridge Road encompasses the entire universe!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

There used to be a wiki entry on the Longest Streets in London but they deleted it cos of the confusion over whether the A23 still counted when it was known as Streatham High Road etc. I think Uxbridge Road, Great Western Road and Brighton Road were the winners before it crashed and burnt.

― Pete W (peterw), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

The A23 has about 3 different names even within walking distance of me!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

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