V8 Marlborough Street

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The V8 Marlborough Street is a major local road in Milton Keynes, running for approximately eight miles. Its formal name is simply Marlborough Street; the V8 designation is an urban planning name that indicates that it is the eighth north-south grid road in the Milton Keynes grid road system. For a large portion of its route the V8 carries the B-road number B4034.

[edit] Route

The V8 starts as a single carriageway at a junction with the V7 Saxon Street heading east and bends round the edge of Stantonbury to face south. It then crosses the A422 H3 Monks Way and becomes the B4034 as a dual carriageway. It then carries on across 4 grid roads , crossing H4 Dansteed Way, A509 H5 Portway, H6 Childs Way and H7 Chaffron Way before losing B4034 status, at A421 H8 Standing Way. It does, however, retain its dual carriageway status for one more grid section. After crossing H9 Groveway, it loses its dual carriageway status and passes under the A5. It currently terminates at Mount Farm roundabout, but is due to be extended to join the H10 Bletcham Way at Fenny Lock roundabout. This extension has land reserved for it but is frequently put off because in order to complete it Simpson Road and the Grand Union Canal would have to be bridged.

[edit] Junctions

Due to its nature as a Milton Keynes grid road, Marlborough Street has an unusual number of roundabouts (by the standards of other towns) along its short route. For clarity their names and the roads they cross are listed below from north to south:

Roundabout Name	Intersection
Marlborough Roundabout	V7 Saxon Street
Redbridge Roundabout	H3 Monks Way
Downs Barn Roundabout	H4 Dansteed Way
Belvedere Roundabout	H5 Portway
Springfield Roundabout	H6 Childs Way
Fishermead Roundabout	H7 Chaffron Way
Marina and Netherfield Roundabouts	H8 Standing Way
Simpson Roundabout Pictured	H9 Groveway
Mount Farm Roundabout	Bond Avenue
Future
Fenny Lock Roundabout	H10 Bletcham Way

• See also: List of road junctions in the United Kingdom

[edit] External links

• [1] Aerial photograph of the V8 (top left-bottom right) at its intersection with the H6 Childs Way. You can see the Xscape dome in the left of the photograph.