A456 road
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The A456 is the main road running between Birmingham and Woofferton in Shropshire just south of Ludlow.
[edit] History
Much of the road is almost certainly medieval in origin. However, the road was laid out, essentially in its present form (except where there are modern bypasses) by a series of 18th century turnpike trusts.
From Birmingham to Blakedown section was the responsibility of one trust established in 1753 to improve roads from the market house in Stourbridge. Blakedown was then part of Hagley, gving rise to the name for it of 'Hagley Road'.
The section from Blakedown to Bewdley Bridge represents two of the eight roads from the market house in Kidderminster that were maintained by a trust established in 1759.
From Welsh Gate to Newnham Bridge, it was managed by the Bewdley Trust established in 1753. From Monksbridge (the Shropshire boundary, to Woofferton and so to Ludlow, the road was repaired by the Ludlow First Turnpike Trust of about 1751. The intervening section was handled by the Hundred House Turnpike Trust of 1753. The Hundred House at Great Witley was probably the meeting place for Doddingtree Hundred. This trust was unusual in being responsible for several roads radiating from a place that was not a town.<ref>Details of the trusts are taken from the original Acts of Parliament establishing the trusts. </ref>
[edit] Notable places and junctions along the route of the A456
- Birmingham, West Midlands - The precise source of the road is at the southern tip of Broad Street
- Five Ways, Birmingham - Tunnel takes traffic north directly onto the Hagley Road
- Birmingham Oratory, Edgbaston
- Edgbaston, Birmingham
- Junction with A4040 Birmingham Outer Circle
- Bearwood, West Midlands
- Junction with A458 which runs along the former line of the road
- M5 motorway junction 3
- Lapal, Birmingham
- Halesowen, Birmingham (now by-passed)
- Junction with B4183. The modern A456 now rejoins its original route.
- Hagley, Worcestershire, where A491 road crosses it from Stourbridge to Bromsgrove
- West Hagley, Worcestershire
- Junction with A450 road to Worcester.
- Blakedown, Worcestershire - Temporary speed camera sometimes located opposite Swan Pub
- Kidderminster, Worcestershire
- Junction with A442
- Junction with A4535 leading to A451 leading to Stourport
- West Midlands Safari Park
- Passes under Severn Valley Railway
- Bewdley, Worcestershire (now by-passed)
- Wyre Forest
- Junction with A4117
- Clows Top, Worcestershire
- Mamble, Worcestershire
- Junction with A443
- River Teme
- Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
- Woofferton, Shropshire
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