B1436 road

UK road routebox


caption= View north along the B1436(Felbrigg Road) between Felbrigg and Roughton
road= B1436
length-mi= 4.3
length-km= 6.9
direction= Northwest-Southeast
start= A148,Cromer
end= Thorpe Market
construction-date=
completion-date=
junctions= A148, A140,A149.

The B1436 runs for about 4.3 miles from a little south west of the Norfolk town Cromer and Thorpe MarketOrdnance Survey (2002). "OS Explorer Map 252 - Norfolk Coast East". ISBN 0-319-21888-0.] . It is a useful conduit to avoid the busy seaside town of Cromer during the summer months and links the A148 from Kings Lynn, to the A140 to Norwich and the A149 to Great Yarmouth [County A to Z Atlas, Street & Road maps Norfolk, ISBN 978 1 84348 614 5] . Travelling from north west to south east the road passes through:
*Felbrigg
*Roughton

History

The route of the B1436 can be seen clearly on faden’s large-scale map (at one inch to the mile) of the county of Norfolk of 1779 [Faden’s Map of Norfolk 1797, Digitally redrawn in 2005 by Andrew Macnair. North Central Map ISBN 13 978 0 9550398 2 9] which shows that the most part of this road’s route has changed very little over the years, even after the Parliamentary Enclosure of the early 19th century. The main difference between this ancient though fare and its route today is in the village of Roughton which has now is dissected by a staggered two mini roundabout junction where the road crosses the A140 between Cromer and Norwich. At the time of Faden’s cartography the main Cromer to Norwich road was part of the B1436 from Roughton Green to this new junction in the centre of the village. [ [http://www.fadensmapofnorfolk.co.uk/mapBrowserNew.asp?TileId=16&Zoom=0] Faden’s Map Digitally redrawn] .

Usage

Travellers to and from Norwich who use the A140, use the B1436 between Felbrigg and Roughton to avoid the bottle neck one way system that is in the town of Cromer at the convergence of the A148 road from Kings Lynn and the A149 coast road from Kings Lynn to Great Yarmouth. The B1436 cuts the corner in a Northwest-Southeast direction linking the A140 to the A148 giving easy access to Sheringham and other coastal villages to the west of Cromer. The consequence of this is that this useful route makes the road as busy as the main A roads in the area, especially in High Summer.

ections of interest (north west to south east)

On the right after 0.4 miles the road passes the entrance to the National Trust property of Felbrigg Hall. After 2.9 miles at Roughton the road crosses the A140 road between Cromer and Norwich by means of a staggered junction with two mini roundabouts, before proceeding on to its terminus at its junction with the A149 at Thorpe Market after 4.3 miles

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