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A53 (Northern Ireland)

  • 22-08-2010 10:00pm
    #1
    Quackster
    Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 5,893 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi, I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on this road which has been niggling me for ages. On some older maps I have of the Cookstown area, this road appears leading westwards from the town, just past the village of Orritor. Then after roughly 2 1/2 miles, it abruptly ends at a junction with minor roads.

    On newer maps, it's reduced to the status of a third-class road.

    It's quite a curiosity to me and I'm hoping someone can solve the mystery!
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Comments

  • #2
    nordydan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭nordydan


    Worth checking on Google maps streetview?


  • #3
    ardmacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    Maybe you need to get on to Wesley Johnston about it!

    If the A53 went there and stopped then there may have been something there (e.g. factory, mine, airfield etc) that meant the road was more important at one time.

    Part of the answer might be that the main route West from Cookstown is now the A505, this route number was not in the original scheme but was added in the 60s or so.


  • #4
    Quackster
    Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 5,893 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quackster


    ardmacha wrote: »
    If the A53 went there and stopped then there may have been something there (e.g. factory, mine, airfield etc) that meant the road was more important at one time.

    That's what I was thinking would be the most logical explanation all right but thus far I haven't found any info on anything significant that might have been there.

    The maps in question date back just to the '80s and '90s so the A505 is also very much there.


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