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| North end | Bonvilston |
| Major intersections |  A48 A4050 |
| South end | Cardiff International Airport |
| Location | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | Wales |
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TheA4226 (better known asThe Five Mile Lane) is a main road linkingBonvilston toBarry andCardiff International Airport (CIA) in theVale of Glamorgan,Wales.
The A4226 begins at the junction with theA48 road (Sycamore Cross) just east of Bonvilston and south ofGwern-y-Steeple andPeterston-Super-Ely. It heads in a southerly direction past numerous farms and country lanes leading off to hamlets such asLlancadle,Moulton,Walterston andDyffryn Gardens etc., past theWelsh Hawking Centre until the junction with Port Road (leading to theA4050 road atColcot roundabout) at Weycock Cross in northwesternBarry.
This initial stage of the road is widely known locally asThe Five Mile Lane, in fact it is nearer 4 miles today but historically the road extended along what is now Pontypridd Road in Barry toRomilly, roughly 5 miles in total.
However, the A4226 route forks some 120 degrees at Weycock Cross to the right as one approaches the roundabout, where it continues in a westerly direction (continuation of Port Road West) along the northern perimeter of the airport until the entrance to the airport at the Tredogan roundabout. At this roundabout it becomes theB4265 road which leads toLlantwit Major and eventually toBridgend and the turn off to the north leads toPenmark.
On 1 July 1970, the Weycock section of the road was formally upgraded to Principal Road Status after being widened and improved.[1] There is currently a proposal to upgrade this road to improve access to CIA. The improvements include adding straighter sections and other works to increase speeds along the road, and to extend the route designation to include the road between Sycamore Cross and theM4 Motorway Junction 34 (Miskin). The extension would also have upgrades including straighter sections to allow for faster speeds.[2]
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