A5199 road

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The A5199 road is the direct road from Leicester to Northampton in England. It was formerly part of the A50 trunk road that ran from Bedfordshire to Lancashire. For most of its length it is known as the Welford Road, except for small stretches near Welford where it is known as High Street and Northampton Road.

As its course is broadly parallel and near to the M1 motorway it is very much lacking in modern features such as bypasses which is why it was classified downwards when the A14 road which it crosses at Junction 1 was built as a link between the M1/M6 junction and the East Coast ports.

[edit] Settlements on the A5199

North to South

Leicestershire

• Knighton
• Wigston Fields
• Wigston
• Kilby Bridge
• Husbands Bosworth

Northamptonshire

• Welford
• Thornby
• Creaton
• Spratton
• Chapel Brampton

It terminates at a junction with the A508 in the Northampton suburb of Kingsthorpe.

[edit] External links

• Photograph taken very near to its southern end

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