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 Newbury bypass, part of the A34 near Donnington | ||||
| Route information | ||||
Part of  E05 | ||||
| Length | 156.21 mi (251.40 km) | |||
| History | Between Oxford and Birmingham is the A44 and A3400 | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  M3 at Winchester (51°04′08″N 1°17′28″W / 51.069°N 1.291°W) | |||
| North end |  A6 at Salford(53°28′59″N 2°15′29″W / 53.483°N 2.258°W) | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United Kingdom | |||
| Primary destinations | Newbury Oxford Solihull Birmingham Walsall Cannock Stafford Stoke-on-Trent Newcastle-under-Lyme Congleton East Didsbury Burnage Manchester | |||
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The A34 is a major road in England. It runs from the A33 and M3 at Winchester in Hampshire, to the A6 and A6042 in Salford, close to Manchester City Centre.[1] It forms a large part of the major trunk route from Southampton, via Oxford, to Birmingham, The Potteries and Manchester. For most of its length (together with the A5011 and parts of the A50, and A49), it forms part of the former Winchester–Preston Trunk Road.[2][3] Improvements to the section of road forming the Newbury Bypass around Newbury were the scene of significant direct action environmental protests in the 1990s.[4] It is 151 miles (243 km) long.
- ^ "1:500,000 road map". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
- ^ "The Winchester-Preston Trunk Road (A34) (Newbury Bypass Detrunking) (No.2) Order 1993". Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "Trunk Roads Acts 1936 and 1946" (PDF). Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "1996: Green groups join bypass battle". BBC News. 18 January 1996. Retrieved 22 December 2011.