The A1, also known as the Great North Road, is the longest numbered road in the United Kingdom, at 410 miles (660 km). It connects London, the capital of England, with Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The numbering system for A-roads, devised in the early 1920s, was based around patterns of roads radiating from two hubs at London and Edinburgh.

Line of the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh The Great North Road was the main highway between England and Scotland from medieval times until the 20th century. It became a coaching route used by mail coaches travelling between London, York and Edinburgh. The modern A1 mainly parallels the route of the Great North Road.

2024年6月23日 · The roots of the A1 road trace back nearly 2,000 years to the era of the Romans. The original A1 was constructed by the Romans as a major strategic road, utilizing the cutting-edge technological innovations of their time.

2022年4月12日 · HGV driver Chris Cooper has a lifelong fascination with the Great North Road. The photographer and writer from Slingsby in North Yorkshire has shared the evocative images he's taken of the A1 -...

The A1 is the UK's longest numbered road and probably its most famous. The numbering system for A-roads, devised in the early 1920s, was based around patterns of roads radiating from two hubs at London and Edinburgh.

The Great North Road became the A1. In the second half of the 20th century as traffic and congestion increased the emphasis was placed on dual-carriageways and motorways to by-pass the towns and cities which had for centuries grown hand in glove with the Great North Road.

2024年6月28日 · The A1, also known as the Great North Road, is indeed the route that the Romans used as a major road of strategic importance nearly 2,000 years ago. They utilized the latest technological innovations of their time to construct this road, just as modern highway construction organizations like Highways England do today.

A1 is the official title of the Great Northern Road in England. It runs up the eastern side of England from London to Edinburgh in Scotland. It is six hundred and sixty kilometres long, making it the longest numbered road in the U.K.. The A1 has six major junctions with motorways, and over twenty major junctions with other A roads.

The A1 is the most recent in a series of routes north out of London to York and beyond. It was designated in 1921 by the Ministry of Transport under the Great Britain road numbering scheme, comprising existing roads and streets, mostly historic, and later using stretches of purpose-built new roads in what is now the outer London borough of Barnet.

When Britain decided to emulate France with a national road numbering system in 1921 it was perhaps inevitable that the Great North Road should become the A1. Of course, that is a simplification. One strand of the Great North Road’s braid of routes became the A1.