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 The A610 atWoodlinkin | |
| Route information | |
| Length | 17.6 mi (28.3 km) |
| Major junctions | |
| From | Nottingham |
| Major intersections | A6008 A609 A6200 A6130 A6514 B6004 B6008 A6002 B600  M1A6096 A608 A6007 A38 A6 |
| To | Heage and Ambergate |
| Location | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Primary destinations | Kimberley, Nottinghamshire,Eastwood, Nottinghamshire |
| Road network | |
TheA610 is anA-road in England, which runs fromNottingham toAmbergate, where it joins theA6.[1][2]
The road starts in Nottingham at a roundabout which connectsMaid Marian Way andUpper Parliament Street spur (A6008). From here road ascends, passingNottingham Cathedral. At Canning Circus, it meets the A6200 (former A52) forDerby and A608 forIlkeston. The A610 becomes Alfreton Road as it passes throughHyson Green, where it meets the A6130Radford Boulevard andGregory Boulevard, further on is a KFC and Tesco Express.
AtBobbers Mill it becomesNuthall Road, near a McDonald's and the Bobbers Mill Transport Cafe, then crossing the Nottingham Ring Road (A6514 orWestern Boulevard). The road then passes throughAspley, with the speed limit being enforced bySPECS average speed cameras, with theEssoNuthall Rd garage next to aGreggs. At a crossroads adjacent to Aspley Library, nearby to the north isEllis Guilford School. It crosses the B6004Broxtowe Lane atNCN Basford Hall, with anIceland slightly further, with aKFC andTesco Express (Cinderhill Express) with a service station. The B6008 is at the largeCinderhill Roundabout. To the north is thePhoenix park terminus of theNET Line 2 (tram) at Phoenix Business Park or Phoenix Centre, built on the site ofBabbington Colliery which closed in 1986, with a large site ofE.ON UK and thePremier Inn Nottingham West.[3] At theCinderhill Roundabout, the road enters Nottinghamshire andBroxtowe.
At this point, the road detours from its original route throughNuthall, the new route (built after the M1 arrived in 1966) becomes adual carriageway, passing theMillers Barn Nottingham[4]Beefeater on the right opposite the BPSt Mary`s Service Station, andNuthall Pub & Kitchen[5] further on the left; the 0.75-mile £260,000 Nuthall Bypass opened in 1967. The road ascends out of the city of Nottingham towards the largeNuthall Island (also known as Nuthall Roundabout) with the A6002 and B600; this £90,000 half-mile section of dual-carriageway, the Nuthall by-pass (western section), opened on Thursday 25 August 1966 when the £6m M1 section reached Nuthall; construction had begun in April 1964.[6] The former route follows what is now the B600, the former A613 toAlfreton. Shortly afterwards, the route then meets the Nuthall Interchange (junction 26) of theM1 motorway at a large roundabout. On 24 May 1967,Barbara Castle opened the section of the M1 from here to junction 27 atAnnesley Woodhouse, built byGeorge Wimpey; it was started in December 1964 and was to be finished by January 1967.High Speed 2 will cross the A610 at the junction, on the eastern side of the M1.
After the M1, the route enters a four mile long stretch of dual carriageway, passingNuthall,Kimberley,Giltbrook andEastwood to the north, andAwsworth to the south. The £3.05m Eastwood-Kimberley By-pass opened on 6 July 1974, and followed a former railway line of theGreat Northern Railway; the bypass was opened 16 months ahead of schedule.[7][8][9] The grade-separatedGiltbrook Interchange is with the A6096, forIlkeston, and the large Giltbrook Retail Park,[10] andIKEA.[11]
The road then reverts to a single carriageway at theDerbyshire border, going underneath the junction with the A608, enteringAmber Valley. The road then bypassesLangley Mill to the south, and passes thePanattoni Business Park with a roundabout for access. The A610 then enters Woodlinkin, this particular stretch of the A610 has gained notoriety in the past for road accidents due to the road being particularly windy. The single carriageway Langley Mill By-Pass opened in 1983 with the official ceremony taken place by councillor Joe Carty on 8 September 1983. The road then ascends intoCodnor, passing theThorn Tree Inn[12] at Woodlinkin.
At Codnor, the route turns right at a T-Junction with theA6007 near theFrench Horn and is relatively straight for around half a mile with theKingfisher Fish Bar and aTesco Express on the left, then descends and turns sharply left. There have been plans since the 1970s for a Codnor Bypass, followed by another section called the Ripley-Codnor Link. The road then ascends for a mile, intoRipley until it reaches a roundabout near theSainsbury's supermarket, with the B6441. Here, the route goes right at the roundabout, left at another roundabout shortly after, with a possible exit southwards for the proposed Ripley-Codnor link. The bypass heads straight, passing aMcDonald's restaurant on the left, and theDerbyshire Constabulary andDerbyshire Fire and Rescue Service headquarters on the right. After the roundabout, theButterley Park[13]Brewers Fayre and Ripley[14]Premier Inn are on the left. Bypassing Ripley completely, the route reaches theHartshay Interchange with theA38. The 1.8 km (1.1 mi) Ripley Bypass was built in the early 1980s byHenry Boot Civil Engineering. Nearby to the north, off the B6179, isMidland Railway – Butterley, known for its annualIndietracks festival.
After the A38 junction, the road carries on for a mile, passing through Buckland Hollow and Sawmills, withBullbridge on the right. The 2.5 km (1.6 mi) Ripley - Buckland Hollow section (West of Ripley) was constructed when the 7.5 miles (12.1 km) A38 (formerA61) Ripley and Swanwick Bypass was built, which opened on 21 October 1977. The single-carriageway road has adjacent land for making into a dual carriageway, along a former railway line. The former route passed throughLower Hartshay, to the south. At the exit for the B6013 to the south, there is theExcavator at Buckland Hollow.
Finally, the road straddles theRiver Amber before meeting the A6 at Ambergate. AtBullbridge (Sawmills), there is an exit to the south for the logistics company Lockwood Group.[15] The road follows adjacent to theMidland Main Line.Coats Viyella Clothing had a maindyeing factory to the north. The road passes under the Midland Main Line at a low (15 ft 3 in [4.65 m]) bridge, after whichNational Grid plc have one of their Pipelines Maintenance Centres (PMC Ambergate) on the right.[16] A few metres before the A6 T-junction, it passes under theDerwent Valley line next toAmbergate railway station, and theHurt Arms on the A6.
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