# history along the Road

> History of British 'A' roads, and some of the history that happened along them.


## Posts

- [A10 Part 3: Cambridge to King's Lynn](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/a10-part-3/): Part 3 of the history along the A10 covers the road from Cambridge, through Ely to King's Lynn.
- [A10 Part 2: M25 to Cambridge](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/a10-part-2/): Part 2 of the history of the A10 road takes us from the M25 to Cambridge, and from the Roman road to today, when the Cambridge road doesn't reach Cambridge.
- [A10 Part 1: Gracechurch Street to the M25](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/a10-part-1/): The A10 is an old road with a complicated history. It runs for just over ninety-nine miles, from the City of London, through Cambridge to Kings Lynn.
- [History Along the A53: Buxton through the Potteries to Shrewsbury](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/the-a53/): Though the A53 only covers some fifty-five miles, there is more history along it than you might expect. As a result, this post is slightly longer than some.
- [The Land's End Road: a history of the A30 - Part 2](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/a30-part2/): In the previous post, we followed the history of the A30 to the end of the seventeenth century. This post is about what happened next.
- [The Land's End Road: a history of the A30 - Part 1](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/a30-part1/): The A30, at two hundred and eighty-four miles, is the third longest ‘A’ road in Britain.
- [A57 History Part 2: Manchester to Lincoln](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/a57-part-2/): In the previous post, I traced the development of the A57, from Liverpool, to the point where the Hyde Road leaves Manchester.
- [A57 History  Part 1: A Road Between Two Pools](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/a57-part-1/): The A57 runs across England from Liverpool to Lincoln, with King John at one end and the Romans at the other.
- [A History of the A5 in Wales](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/a5-in-wales/): The A5 in Wales has its particular history. At its heart is Thomas Telford's Holyhead Road, but there is more to discover about how the road came to be.
- [The A8 with some M8](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/the-a8-with-some-m8/): The history of how the road from Edinburgh through Glasgow, to Greenock became the A8
- [Settling the A1](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/settling-the-a1/): This first post is about what happened to the A1 between when it was given its number, in 1923 to the road we have today.

## Pages

- [Some Sources](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/some-sources/): Some of the most frequent and useful sources found across the site.
- [All Posts](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/previous-posts/)
- [About](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/about/): Take a moment to think of an 'A' road that you know quite well. (Definitely an 'A' road, I'm intending to bypass motorways.)
- [Home](https://historyalongtheroad.co.uk/): Part 3 of the history along the A10 covers the road from Cambridge, through Ely to King's Lynn.

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