A614 road

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caption= The A614
road= A614
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direction= South - North
end= Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
destinations= Goole
start= Calverton
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The A614 is a main road in England running through the counties of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire.

Beginning at Redhill, near Calverton in Nottinghamshire at a roundabout with the A60, the road meets the A6097 at a junction which looks like a roundabout but actually is not, crosses the Robin Hood Way then passes Bilsthorpe. At Rufford there is a Center Parcs resort and Rufford Country Park. The road meets several roads at a major roundabout at Ollerton near a Shell petrol station. This is near Edwinstowe, famed for its connections with Robin Hood. The road passes through Clumber Park and goes past the entrance to the former Army Proteus training camp. The road passes over the River Poulter. At Apleyhead Wood, the road meets the A1 and A57 at a busy roundabout. This roundabout is due to be rebuilt to become a [http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/a_roads/a1/peterborough_blyth_junction/index.htm dual-grade junction] (GSJ). The A614 overlaps the A1 for a few miles north.

At junction 34 of the A1(M) at Blyth, next to a large Moto [http://www.moto-way.com/page.cfm?Section=2&location=31&Category=Home service station] , the road runs north to the settlement of Bawtry, passing to the south of a nearby [http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/harworth.htm colliery] at Harworth. At Bawtry the road meets the A638, a Roman road which heads into Doncaster, passing under the East Coast Main Line here. At Finningley, the road passes around the runway of Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, the former RAF Finningley. The road has a level crossing with the Doncaster-Lincoln railway line and the River Torne is crossed. Near Hatfield Woodhouse, the road passes a [http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/prisoninformation/locateaprison/prison.asp?id=308,15,2,15,308,0 prison] which used to be [http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s13.html RAF Lindholme] , used by RAF Bomber Command. The road meets the M180 and A18 at a roundabout at Thorne, the former terminus of the [http://www.pathetic.org.uk/motorways/a18m.shtml A18(M)] , the M18 at junction 6, follows the River Don for a few miles then crosses it where the river becomes the Dutch River.

From Goole, the road continues in a north-easterly direction, crosses the M62 and passes over the River Ouse on the iron-girder [http://www.goole-guide.net/boothferry_bridge.htm Boothferry Bridge] before intersecting with the M62 at junction 36.

From here, the road becomes a trunk road running through the settlements of Howden, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Market Weighton, Driffield, ending on the Yorkshire Coast at Bridlington, where it joins the A165.

Former route in Nottinghamshire

The road used to continue south from the junction with the A60, next to the Little Chef, and overlap the A60. The north-west section of the Nottingham western bypass, up to the A52 junction, near the Queen's Medical Centre (before the Clifton Boulevard was built) was the A614 for some time and is now the A6514. Prior to renumbering of Clifton Boulevard to the A52, concurrent with the numbering of the A614 to A6514, the section from the A52 to A606 was also A614.

Former route in East Yorkshire

Originally, the A614 went from Thorne via Snaith to Selby. The current section from Goole through Rawcliffe was the A161 (from Gainsborough). From Goole to Holme-on-Spalding Moor, it was the A1041. From here through Market Weighton, to Driffield, it was the A163. From here to Bridlington, it used to be the A166 (which is the road from York). More recently, it finished at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, then what is now the A614, carried on north as the A163 (from Selby), then as the A164 (from Beverley) just before Driffield.

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4183902.stm Improvements to Apleyhead junction.]
* [http://www.uk-roads.org.uk/roadlists/r10/notes.php?number=A614 SABRE]
* [http://www.goole-guide.net A Guide to Goole]