South Bristol Ring Road - Photo Guide
The controversial South Bristol Ring Road was dreamed up fifty years ago, to meet the needs of the time - but its route was only disclosed in February 2006. Which gives us a chance to show some of the nice places it threatens....
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Route Description
The route of the dual carriageway takes it along a tortuous line. It starts at the southernmost end of Bristol's eastern ring road, where it meets the A4 at the busy Hicks Gate roundabout near Keynsham. Heading south around the edge of Stockwood, then west along the lower slopes of east Dundry, skirting Whitchurch, the road then swings north into the built up area to meet the Airport Road at the Hartcliffe roundabout, then west again through Bishopsworth and Highridge to join the A38 to the airport and the south. But the ring road won't stop there, it will continue west to join the Long Ashton bypass
In Pictures.....
Green Belt pastures bordering Bristol's south east edge at Stockwood, known for it's 'horsiculture', will become the eastern end of the ring road:
After an intersection with the busy A37 Wells road, just outside Whitchurch, the ring road would arc toward the lower northern slopes of East Dundry - again providing a new 'outer limit' for extending the edge of the built up area into the countryside, in an area favoured for major new development. The main artery into Bristol would still be the Wells Road:
The dual carriageway would hug the foot of the north Dundry slopes, within yards of the housing edge - seen here at East Dundry Road:
Leaving the hills, the road would turn north at or near the Hartcliffe Community Farm and enter the built up area of Hartcliffe:
In Bishopsworth, open space between the houses was long ago adopted by the locals for leisure. But the planners hadn't forgotten....
Then the new traffic gets squeezed into the quiet, residential King Georges Road, splitting the neighbourhood:
emerging to cross Highridge Common before climbing the hill to the A37:
