Nearby cities:. Add your comment in english. Good details. Also interesting is that the nearby M4 bridge over the Thames was actually started in before war broke out.
It was to be part of the Maidenhead by-pass. Only the concrete supports were finished pre-war, however, and it took until the M4 was built for the bridge to be finished. Your comment: Post comment. Similar places Nearby places Nearby cities. Maidenhead Thicket 0. At this, we had climbed 30m since we left the A After passing over the M25, we pass through the north of Chorleywood and into Buckinghamshire.
After a brief rural section, we reach Little Chalfont, passing under the Metropolitan Line. Continuing adjacent to the line, we reach a mini-roundabout where the A , at one time a spur of the A, heads off under the line in the direction of Amersham-on-the-Hill and we bear left descending to the roundabout on the A There is a short multiplex west along the A , which bypasses Amersham Old Town, until the A reappears at a roundabout by Amersham Hospital.
Initially the road continues westwards, passing through a wood near the village of Penn Street, before bearing more southerly and entering High Wycombe. A traffic turns left and then bears right to reach the A40 at traffic lights, where it turns right to run along a D2 as far as the Magic Roundabout , where it rejoins the northbound route of the road.
Turning left in a southwesterly direction, the A is now dual for a mile or so leading to the M40 J4 and the A We continue south on a new alignment. This trunk dual carriageway has a roundabout junction with the A and bypasses Marlow. At the Bisham Roundabout , we meet the A and the original route of the A Here we experience the lowest-quality part of this section. We turn off the original route, which headed through Burchett's Green to the A4 and join new build from the s that grade-separates the Burchett's Green and The Thicket roundabouts, bypassing the old section of A At The Thicket Roundabout, we meet the A4 at a roundabout interchange and gain blue signs.
Originally, the plans were for a route north of Reading. Priorities changed and it is now the A M and a bypass of Maidenhead on the north-south axis. In the Road numbering revision , the A took over the route of the A in Amersham as a spur, since renumbered as the A In the early s, a new link near Maidenhead was built, grade separating the Burchetts Green and The Thicket roundabouts, making a dualled and mostly grade-separated link between the M40 and M4.
Handy Cross Interchange was upgraded with a cut through in A Location Map geo. Maidenhead services. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in. Namespaces Page Discussion Discover. Views Read View source View history. This page was last modified on 24 August , at Location Map geo. View gallery Only downfall of it is that it doesn't make it all the way to Wycombe and the M40 to make a continuous route.
Was quite a nice surprise to find this out when I drove it! Please do not copy without permission. If you link directly to a picture held on this site, please credit where you got it from Pathetic Motorways home current former unbuilt lost secretive unfinished by region features.
Where is it? West of Maidenhead, Berkshire. Can you show me that on a map? What makes this a pathetic motorway? It's a leftover. That's right, a leftover. OK, can you talk sense now. Yes, but this story involves going back in time. Ah, I see
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