V8 Marlborough Street

The V8 Marlborough Street is a major local road in Milton Keynes, running for approximately eight miles. Its formal name is simply "Marlborough Street"; the "V8" designation is an urban planning name that indicates that it is the eighth north-south grid road in the Milton Keynes grid road system. For a large portion of its route the V8 carries the B-road number "B4034".

Route

The V8 starts as a single carriageway at a junction with the "V7 Saxon Street" heading east and bends round the edge of Stantonbury to face south. It then crosses the A422 "H3 Monks Way" and becomes the B4034 as a dual carriageway. It then carries on across 4 grid roads , crossing "H4 Dansteed Way", A509 "H5 Portway", "H6 Childs Way" and "H7 Chaffron Way" before losing B4034 status, at A421 "H8 Standing Way". It does, however, retain its dual carriageway status for one more grid section. After crossing "H9 Groveway", it loses its dual carriageway status and passes under the A5. It currently terminates at "Mount Farm" roundabout, but is due to be extended to join the "H10 Bletcham Way" at "Fenny Lock" roundabout. This extension has land reserved for it but is frequently put off because in order to complete it "Simpson Road" and the Grand Union Canal would have to be bridged.

Junctions

Due to its nature as a Milton Keynes grid road, Marlborough Street has an unusual number of roundabouts (by the standards of other towns) along its short route. For clarity their names and the roads they cross are listed below from north to south:

* See also: List of road junctions in the United Kingdom

External links

* [http://www.mkweb.co.uk/_system/_System/_private/MyMap/MKMap/aerialviewoutput.asp?X_Coord=486181&Y_Coord=238909] Aerial photograph of the V8 (top left-bottom right) at its intersection with the H6 Childs Way. You can see the Xscape dome in the left of the photograph.