A5 Drive-By - Nant Ffrancon Traditional Cache
A5 Drive-By - Nant Ffrancon
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This is one of a series of drive-bys along the historical A5 route.
About 10m away from first available parking.100m from Ogwen Cottage, 150m from main road. For quick parking you might be lucky by the cattle grid, other wise there is pay parking at Ogwen Cottage, or for a little longer walk the main road parking. Please hide as found, and pencil usually needed
The A5 is a major road in the United Kingdom. It is also the first Roman built road in England hence the name Roman Road. It runs for about 260 miles (418 km) (including sections concurrent with other designations) from London, England to Holyhead, Wales, following in part a section of the Roman Iter II route which later took the Anglo-Saxon name Watling Street. The history of the A5 begins with Thomas Telford in the early nineteenth century. Following the Act of Union 1800, which unified Great Britain and Ireland, the government saw the need for improving communication links between London and Dublin. A Parliamentary committee led to an Act of Parliament of 1815 that authorised buying out existing turnpike road interests and, where necessary, constructing a new road, to complete the route between the two capitals. This made it the first major civilian state-funded road building project in Britain since Roman times. Through England, the road largely took over existing turnpike roads, which mainly followed the route of the Anglo-Saxon Wæcelinga Stræt (Watling Street), much of which had been historically the Roman road Iter II. From Shrewsbury and through Wales, Telford's work was more extensive. In places he followed existing roads, but he also built new links, including the Menai Suspension Bridge to connect the mainland with Anglesey and the Stanley Embankment to Holy Island. Telford's road was complete with the opening of the Menai Suspension Bridge in 1826.
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Bccbfvgr fvqr bs ebnq gb cnexvat, fbzrjung haqrearngu gur N5!
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