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 The A614 | |
| Route information | |
| Length | 97.8 mi[1] (157.4 km) |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | Redhill, Nottinghamshire 53°01′21″N1°07′56″W / 53.0226°N 1.1323°W /53.0226; -1.1323 (A614 road (southern end)) |
| North end | Bridlington 54°05′09″N0°13′13″W / 54.0859°N 0.2203°W /54.0859; -0.2203 (A614 road (northern end)) |
| Location | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Primary destinations | Goole |
| Road network | |
TheA614 is a main road inEngland running through the counties ofNottinghamshire,South Yorkshire and theEast Riding of Yorkshire.
Beginning atRedhill, the northernmost point in theNottingham suburb ofArnold inNottinghamshire, the road meets theA60 andA6097 at Redhill roundabout[2][3] then passesBilsthorpe. AtRufford there is aCenter Parcs resort and RuffordCountry Park. This is near toEdwinstowe, famed for its connections withRobin Hood. The road meets several other roads on a small roundabout[4][5][6] atOllerton with fuel stations and fast food outlets.
The road passesClumber Park and goes past the entrance to the formerArmy Proteus training camp. The road passes over theRiver Poulter. At Apleyhead Wood, the road meets theA1 andA57. Major works were started on the Apleyhead junction in 2006 to convert the roundabout into a dual-grade junction (GSJ). This work was completed on 20 May 2008.[7] The A614 overlaps the A1 for 6.3 miles (10.1 km) north.
At junction 34 of theA1(M) atBlyth, next to a largeMoto service station, the road runs north to the settlement ofBawtry, passing to the south of a nearby colliery atHarworth. At Bawtry the road meets theA638, aRoman road which heads intoDoncaster, passing under theEast Coast Main Line here. AtFinningley, the road passes around the runway ofRobin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, the formerRAF Finningley. The road has alevel crossing with the Doncaster-Lincoln railway line and the River Torne is crossed. NearHatfield Woodhouse, the road passes a prison. The road meets theM180 andA18 at a roundabout atThorne, the former terminus of the A18(M), theM18 at junction 6, follows theRiver Don for 3.5 miles (5.6 km) then crosses it where the river becomes the Dutch River.
FromGoole, the road continues in a north-easterly direction, crosses theM62 and passes over theRiver Ouse on the iron-girderBoothferry Bridge before intersecting with the M62 at junction 36.
From here, the road becomes atrunk road running through the settlements ofHowden,Holme-on-Spalding-Moor,Driffield, ending on theYorkshire coast atBridlington, where it joins theA165.
The road used to continue south from the junction with the A60, next to theLittle Chef, and overlap the A60. The north-west section of the Nottingham western bypass, up to theA52 junction, near theQueen's Medical Centre (before the Clifton Boulevard was built) was the A614 for some time and is now the A6514. Before renumbering of Clifton Boulevard to the A52, concurrent with the numbering of the A614 to A6514, the section from the A52 toA606 was also A614.
Originally, the A614 went fromThorne viaSnaith toSelby. The current section from Goole through Rawcliffe was the A161 (fromGainsborough). From Goole to Holme-on-Spalding Moor, it was the A1041. From here throughMarket Weighton, toDriffield, it was the A163. From here to Bridlington, it used to be theA166 (which is the road fromYork). More recently, it finished at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, then what is now the A614, carried on north as theA163 (fromSelby), then as the A164 (fromBeverley) just before Driffield.
On Friday, 13 February 2009 just after 23:00 six people were killed in ahead-on collision on the road inNottinghamshire between theBilsthorpe crossroads and theEakring turn-off. The victims were four teenagers in one car, and an elderly couple in the other.
The cause of the accident was concluded by the coroner as to have happened as a result of "inappropriate overtaking" by the driver of the teenagers' car.[8]
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53°39′21″N0°59′25″W / 53.6558°N 0.9903°W /53.6558; -0.9903 (A614 road)
