The A34 is a major road in England. It runs from the A33 and M3 at Winchester in Hampshire, to the A6 and A6042 in Salford, close to Manchester City Centre.[1] It forms a large part of the major trunk route from Southampton, via Oxford, to Birmingham, The Potteries and Manchester. For most of its length (together with the A5011 and parts of the A50, and A49), it forms part of the former Winchester–Preston Trunk Road.[2][3] Improvements to the s
ection of road forming the Newbury Bypass around Newbury were the scene of significant direct action environmental protests in the 1
April 1935,[7] replacing part of the A42 (Oxford to Birmingham through Shipston-on-Stour, Stratford-upon-Avon and Henley-in-Arden), A455 (Birmingham to Stafford), part of the A449 (Stafford to Newcastle under Lyme) and A526 (Newcastle to Manchester).
By 1953 the route was as follows:[8]
- Manchester
- Levenshulme
- Burnage
- East Didsbury
- Cheadle
- Wilmslow
- Alderley Edge
- Congleton
- Talke
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Stone bypass
- Stafford
- Cannock
- Bloxwich
- Walsall
- Birmingham
- Shirley
- Henley-in-Arden
- Wootton Wawen
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Newbold-on-Stour
- Shipston-on-Stour
- Long Compton
- (1 mile (1.6 km) east of Chipping Norton)
- Enstone
- Woodstock
- Oxford
- Abingdon
- Steventon
- East Ilsley
- Newbury
- Litchfield
- Whitchurch
- Sutton Scotney
- Winchester
990s.[4] It is 151 miles (243 km) long.