A roads in Zone 5 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain

List of A roads in zone 5 in Great Britain starting north/east of the A5, west of the A6, south of the Solway Firth/Eden Estuary (roads beginning with 5).

Single- and double-digit roads[]

Road	From	To	Notes
A5	Central London (Marble Arch)	Holyhead	Forms parts of the historical route of Watling Street. The section from M1 J4 north of Edgware to N. of Dunstable is now numbered A5183. The A5 now starts at M1 J11A and runs west to join previous alignment.
A50	Leicester	Warrington	Becomes M1 motorway between junctions 22 and 24A. Used to start at Hockliffe on A5, north of Dunstable. Gradually cut back to Northampton, then Leicester. Before opening of Derby southern bypass in 1997, it followed present A511 between Markfield and Foston.
A51	Chester	Kingsbury	Formerly continued to Coventry along route of B4098. Tamworth to Kingsbury (and B4098) originally A423.
A52	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Mablethorpe
A53	Buxton	Shrewsbury
A54	Chester	Buxton	Section between Congleton and Buxton is the most dangerous road in Britain.
A55	Holyhead	Chester	Also known as the "North Wales Expressway."
A56	Chester	A59 near Broughton
A57	Liverpool	Lincoln
A58	Prescot	Wetherby	Becomes A58(M) as part of Leeds Inner Ring Road
A59	Liverpool	York

Three-digit roads[]

Road	From	To	Notes
A500	Clayton	Nantwich	Known locally as the D Road, either because its route resembles the curved part of a letter D (with a section of the M6 forming the upright) or after the Roman numeral 'D' (500)
A501	Westway (London)	Moorgate	Part of the London Inner Ring Road, comprises Marylebone Road, Euston Road, Pentonville Road and City Road. Terminates at junction with London Wall.
A502	Camden Town	Hendon	Through Hampstead, broadly follows the Edgware branch of the Northern Line for 5 stations.
A503	Camden Town	Woodford	Camden Road and Seven Sisters Road (primary) and Ferry Lane (non-primary), though Holloway and Walthamstow
A504	West Hendon	Tottenham Hale	via Hendon, Finchley, East Finchley, Muswell Hill, Hornsey and West Green. Has recently been extended to include Broad Lane as the A503 is now two-way.
A505	Leighton Buzzard	Great Abington
A506	Walton	Stanley Gate nr. Bickerstaffe	Part of the road has since been reassigned to the M58 Motorway; in the 1970s part of it served the New Town of Skelmersdale[1]
A507	Buntingford	M1 junction 13	The northern terminus and the course of the road have recently been changed to bypass Ridgmont.
A508	Old Stratford	Market Harborough
A509	Milton Keynes	Kettering
A510	Wellingborough	Cranford St John	Forms part of Wellingborough's outer ring road, passes through Finedon and ends at Junction 11 of the A14 at Cranford St John.
A511	Markfield	Foston, Derbyshire	Historical A50(T). The original route went from Atherstone to Burton upon Trent (now B4116 and A444).
A512	Loughborough	A42 & A511 near Ashby-de-la-Zouch
A513	Tamworth	Stafford
A514	Derby	Swadlincote
A515	Lichfield	Buxton
A516	Derby	Hilton
A517	Belper	Ashbourne
A518	Uttoxeter	Telford
A519	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Newport
A520	Stone	Leek
A521	Meir	Froghall
A522	Uttoxeter	Wetley Rocks
A523		Hazel Grove	This became part of the A52 (except for the spur in Leek; the current route of the A52 west of there was the A524 at the time), but the changes were undone almost immediately.
	Unused		Was a road from to Newcastle-under-Lyme (formerly part of the A52). This almost immediately became part of the A52 again, as the old route of the A52 reverted to the previous designation of A523. Previously was a road from Fenny Bentley to Great Rowsley (now B5056).
A525	Rhyl	Newcastle-under-Lyme
A526	Woolfall Heath M57 J3	Woolfall Heath A57	Seth Powell Way
A527	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Congleton
A528	Wrexham	Shrewsbury
A529	Hinstock	Nantwich
A530	Whitchurch	Northwich
A531	Madeley Heath	Weston
A532	Crewe Green	Marshfield Bank, Crewe
A533	Alsager	Widnes	Crosses Runcorn-Widnes Bridge
A534	Wrexham	Congleton	Follows the course of one of the historic "Salt ways" that ran from Nantwich into Wales. Part of its central section, between Broxton and Bickerton Hill, is still called 'Salters Lane'.
A535	Holmes Chapel	Alderley Edge	via Twemlow Green, past Jodrell Bank, via Chelford
A536	Congleton	Macclesfield
A537	Knutsford	Buxton	The section between Macclesfield and Buxton has been named the most dangerous road in Britain. See also Cat and Fiddle Road.
A538	Macclesfield	Altrincham	Passes underneath the runways of Manchester Airport
A539		Llangollen
A540	Chester	Hoylake
A541	Wrexham	Trefnant
A542	Llangollen	Llandegla	crosses the Horseshoe Pass
A543	Pentrefoelas	Bodfari
A544	Bylchau	Llanfair Talhaiarn
A545	Menai Bridge	Beaumaris
A546	Tywyn	Llandudno
A547	Prestatyn	Conwy	Largely follows North Wales coast. Alternative to A55 North Wales Expressway.
A548	Chester	Llanrwst
A549	Drury	Mold
A550	Caergwrle	Hooton
A551	Seacombe	Gayton
A552	Birkenhead	West Kirby
A553	Birkenhead	Hoylake
A554	Birkenhead	Bidston
A555	Manchester Airport	Hazel Grove	Starts at the M56 Spur at Manchester Airport and ends at the A6 just southeast of Hazel Grove
A556	Delamere	Bowdon	Northern section takes traffic from and to M6 J19 and M56 J7 for Manchester Airport and South Manchester
A557	Sutton Weaver	Rainhill, St Helens M62 J7	Section south of Runcorn, known as the Weston Point Expressway
A558	Daresbury	Runcorn	Daresbury Expressway
A559	Sandiway	Stretton, Cheshire
A560	Altrincham	Hattersley
A561	Halewood	Liverpool
A562	Liverpool	Penketh
A563	A6 London Road, Oadby	A47, Crown Hills, Evington	Leicester Ring Road
	Unused		Referred to sections of the upgraded A50 (e.g. from Foston to Etwall) before the A50 was rerouted; the original A564 went from Liverpool to A567/Bridge Road (now A567).
A565	Bootle	Tarleton
A566	Bootle	Orrell Park
A567	Seaforth	Scotland Road, Liverpool
A568	Unused		Was the road between Widnes and Lea Green railway station, St Helens (now B5419).
A569	Bold Heath	St Helens
A570	Rainhill, St Helens M62 J7	Southport
A571	St Helens	Wigan
A572	Swinton	St Helens
A573	Winwick, Cheshire	Wigan
A574	Leigh	Sankey Bridges, Warrington	Also spurs to M62 J11
A575	Bolton	Worsley
A576	Stretford	Middleton
A577	Boothstown	Ormskirk
A578	Leigh	Hindley Green
A579	M6 J22	Bolton
A580	Liverpool	Manchester	The East Lancs Road
A581	Chorley	Rufford
A582	A6 near Lostock Hall	Higher Penwortham
A583	Blackpool	Preston	Extension to M55 to open in 2023 including new motorway junction 2.
A584	Clifton	Little Bispham	Extension to M55 to open in 2023 including new motorway junction 2.
A585	Kirkham	Fleetwood
A586	Garstang	Blackpool
A587	Blackpool	Fleetwood
A588	Poulton-Le-Fylde	Lancaster
A589	Halton	Heysham
A590	A65	Barrow-in-Furness
A591	A590	Bothel
A592	Newby Bridge	Penrith
A593	Broughton-in-Furness	Ambleside
A594 road (Cumbria)	Maryport	Cockermouth
A594 road (Leicester)			Leicester Central Ring Road
A595	Carlisle	Dalton-in-Furness
A596	Thursby	Workington
A597	Workington	Distington	Northside Bridge in Workington, which carries part of the route, destroyed in November 2009 floods
A598	Hampstead	North Finchley	Commences at the junction of Finchley Road and Hendon Way on the A41. It goes through Golders Green and crosses the A406 and A1 at Henlys Corner, then heads through Regents Park Road to the centre of Finchley and Ballards Lane up to Tally-Ho Corner where it terminates on the A1000
A599	Haydock Park Racecourse	Blackbrook Bypass, St Helens

Four-digit roads (50xx)[]

Road	From	To	Notes
A5000	A504, Finchley	A598, Finchley	The section of Hendon Lane north of Gravel Hill. Originally all of Hendon Lane and the A504 to the West of it was part of the A5000, although some old maps have the A5000 ending at the west on the A502, with that number taking over the remainder.
A5001	Rushden	Rushden
	Unused		Ran from Macclesfield to Whaley Bridge (now B5470); formerly continued south to Buxton via what is now the A5004. Previously allocated to a road from A6 to A510 in Finedon via what is now Obelisk Road.
	Unused
A5004	Whaley Bridge	Buxton	Number for the former A6 between Buxton and Whaley Bridge. Previously allocated to a road from Station Road to B5010 via Donington Lane north of Castle Donington.
A5005	Longton, Staffordshire	Barlaston
A5006	Stoke-upon-Trent	Hanley	Previously used for the M6 to Hanford section of the A500.
A5007	Stoke upon Trent	Fenton
A5008	Burslem	Bucknall
A5009	Bucknall
A5010	Burslem	Burslem
A5011	Talke	Alsager
A5012	Cromford	A515
A5013	Stafford	Eccleshall
A5014	Old Trafford	Stretford
A5015	Burleydam	Burleydam
	A49 west of Nantwich	A534 west of Nantwich	Signage says this is now part of the A534, but OS 1:25k mapping says this road still exists
	Unused
A5018	Winsford	Wharton Green
A5019	Crewe	Crewe
A5020	A500 near Englesea-Brook	Crewe Green
	Unused
A5022	Sandbach	Brereton Green
	Unused
	Unused		Ran from A536 to A523 in Macclesfield via Sunderland Street.
A5025	Llanfairpwllgwyngyll	Near Valley
A5026	Lloc
A5027	Liscard	Upton
A5028	Higham Ferrers	Rushden	Also used to designate Borough Road, Wallasey
A5029	Birkenhead	Birkenhead
A5030	Birkenhead	Birkenhead
	Unused
A5032	Backford	Ellesmere Port
A5033	Knutsford	Knutsford
A5034	Near Mere, Cheshire
A5035	Trentham	Longton
A5036	Switch Island	Toxteth (Brunswick railway station)	In 2 parts: Switch Island-Seaforth and Bootle-Brunswick due to Seaforth to Bootle section now forming part of Liverpool docks internal roads system.
A5037	Liverpool	Liverpool
A5038	Liverpool	Litherland
A5039	Liverpool	Liverpool
A5040	Liverpool	Liverpool	Paradise Street (part), plus short section of Old Haymarket on opposite side of pedestrianised city centre
A5041	Unused		Canning Place in Liverpool. Closed to general traffic; part converted into bus station
	Unused
	Unused
	Unused		Ran from Church Street (then A5039) via Ranelagh Street to A5038 in Liverpool, with a spur on Great Charlotte Street; the section west of Great Charlotte Street is now the B5339 while the remainder is probably now part of the A5038 (but still shown as the A5044 on the OS map).
	Liverpool	Liverpool	Mann Island
A5046	Liverpool	Liverpool	Tithebarn Street
A5047	Liverpool	Old Swan	Edge Lane and St. Oswald's Street
A5048	Royal Liverpool University Hospital	Liverpool Women's Hospital
A5049	Liverpool	Clubmoor
A5050	Everton, Liverpool	Everton	St Domingo Road
A5051	Liverpool	Liverpool	Moorfields
A5052	Liverpool	Liverpool	King Edward Street
A5053	Liverpool	Liverpool	Leeds Street
A5054	Liverpool	Liverpool	Boundary Street
A5055	Liverpool	Liverpool	Sandhills Lane
A5056	Liverpool	Liverpool	Bankhall Street
A5057	Bootle	Bootle
A5058	Bootle	Aigburth	Queens Drive
	Unused
A5060	Warrington	Lower Walton	Chester Road
A5061	Warrington		Knutsford Road
A5062	Ashton-in-Makerfield		Only 0.1 mile long
A5063	Old Trafford	Salford
A5064	Emstrey, near Shrewsbury	Shrewsbury	Named "London Road"
	Leagrave	Luton
A5066	Ordsall	Lower Broughton
A5067	Gorse Hill, Stretford	Manchester
A5068	Skelmersdale	Skelmersdale	An older one went from Cornbrook to Picadilly Gardens.
	Unused
	Unused		Ran from Hinckley to (now B4669). Previously allocated to a loop off of the A59 through downtown (now B5319).
A5071	Preston	Preston	Corporation Street / Moor Lane. Corporation Street was formerly a B road.
A5072	Preston	Preston	Strand Road
A5073	South Shore, Blackpool	Blackpool
A5074	Gilpin Bridge	Windermere
A5075	Ambleside	Ambleside
A5076	Upton	Kingsthorpe	Formerly part of the A45 road. The northeastern section was numbered A4508 (A45-A508 link) until the mid 1990s, when the route was renamed A5076. Previously allocated to a road from the A6 via Stricklandgate in Penrith; this became part of the A6 in a one-way pair.
	Unused
A5078	Crewe	Site of Crewe Locomotive Works
A5079	Levenshulme	Longsight
A5080	Liverpool	Penketh
A5081	M60 Junction 9	Old Trafford	Main Route through Trafford Park
A5082	Astley	Farnworth
A5083	A582 near Lostock Hall, Lancashire	A49 near Cuerden, Lancashire
A5084	Lowick Green	Torver
A5085	Ribbleton	Lea, Lancashire	Blackpool Road, Preston
A5086	Egremont	Cockermouth
A5087	Ulverston	Barrow-in-Furness
A5088	Birkenhead	Liscard
A5089	Anfield	Newsham Park	Formerly also included more of Liverpool inner ring road, south to Toxteth and Dingle - now B roads
A5090	Litherland	Kirkdale
A5091	Ullswater	Troutbeck
A5092	Greenodd
A5093	Hallthwaites	Whicham	Via Millom
A5094	A595	A595	Via Whitehaven
A5095	Northampton	Northampton railway station
	Unused
	Unused
A5098	Bootle	Walton
A5099	Blackpool	Blackpool

Four-digit roads (51xx)[]

Road	From	To	Notes
A5100	Edgware	Mill Hill Circus	Station Road (Edgware), Hale Lane, Mill Hill Broadway
A5101	Northampton	Northampton
A5102	Stockport	Wilmslow	Shares the same 1 mile stretch of road between Woodford and Bramhall Village with the A5149, where both diverge at each end
A5103	Manchester city centre	M56 Junction 3 near Wythenshawe	Commonly referred to as the Princess Parkway, although this name only applies to the section between the M60 and the M56. The A5103 between the M60 and the city centre is actually Princess Road.
A5104	Corwen	Chester
A5105	Morecambe	Bolton-le-Sands
A5106	A6 near Chorley	A49 near Standish
	Unused
A5108	Llanallgo	Moelfre
A5109	Edgware	Whetstone	Includes the Western section of Deansbrook Lane and Deans Lane, Selvage Lane, then Marsh Lane, Totteridge Common and Totteridge Lane
A5111	Mackworth	Spondon	Derby Outer Ring Road
A5112	Battlefield	Shrewsbury
	Unused
A5114	A55	Llangefni
A5115	Chester	Church Broughton
A5116	Chester	Moston
A5117	Helsby	Sealand
A5118	Penyffordd	Llong
A5119	Mold	Flint
A5120	M1 Junction 12	Ampthill bypass	Section between Dunstable and the M1 downgraded to B5120
A5121	Branston	Clay Mills
	Unused
A5123	M1 Junction 15A & A43	Northampton
A5124	Battlefield
	Broad Street in Loughborough	The Rushes Loughborough	Previously allocated to a road on Fullhurst Avenue, Braunstone Avenue, Wyngate Drive, Woodville Road, Henley Road, Fosse Road, Blackbird Road, and Abbey Park Road (now B5327) from Braunstone to Abbey Park.
A5126	Runcorn		"Weston Link" - Links A533 and A557, a part of the Runcorn Expressways system
A5127	Birmingham	Lichfield	Former route of A38.
A5128	Wellingborough	Wilby
	Unused
A5130	M1 Junction 14	Woburn
	Unused		Ran along Saint Margaret's Way in Leicester from the A46 (now A594) to the A6 (now Loughborough Road).
A5132	Hilton	Swarkestone
	Unused		Was a road in Runcorn.
A5134	Bromham	Kempston	Presently being replaced by the Bedford Western Bypass
A5135	Borehamwood	Borehamwood
A5137	Heswall	Clatterbridge (M53 Junction 4)
A5139	Seacombe docks	M53 at Bidston
A5140	Bedford	Bedford
A5141	Bedford	Bedford
	Unused		Ran along Great Northern Road and Station Road from A5 (now A5183) to A505 in Dunstable.
A5143	Hazel Grove
A5144	Hale	Timperley
A5145	Stockport	Stretford
A5147	Maghull	Scarisbrick
A5148	Lichfield	Lichfield	Short spur connecting A38 at Swinfen Island to M6 Toll/A5 at Wall Island
A5149	Poynton	Cheadle, Greater Manchester	Shares the same 1 mile stretch of road between Woodford and Bramhall Village with the A5102, where both diverge at each end
A5150	Colindale	Hendon	Colindeep Lane
A5151	Lloc	Rhuddlan
A5152	Gaerwen	A55 near Gaerwen
A5153	Holyhead	Holyhead
A5154	Holyhead Port	Holyhead
A5156	North Wrexham	East Wrexham
	Unused		Typo for the A5195 southeast of the M6; corrected in 2009
	Unused		Proposed to be reserved in 1935 but never implemented
A5181	Stretford	Trafford Park
A5182	Acton	Clayton
A5183	Dunstable	M1 Junction 4	The A5 before it was de-trunked.
A5184	Longsight	University of Manchester
A5185	Eccles	Swinton
A5186	Salford	Salford
A5187	Stafford	Stafford	Part of the Stafford ring road
	Unused		Penwortham Bypass Flyover from A59 to A582 south of Preston; it is unknown if this road was actually signed or it was a planned route number that was never implemented.
A5189	Burton upon Trent	Burton upon Trent	Uses St Peter's Bridge, connects A444 to A5121.
A5190	Lichfield	Cannock
A5191	Shrewsbury	Shrewsbury
A5192	Lichfield	Lichfield
A5193	Wellingborough	Wellingborough	The A509 prior to the Wellingborough by-pass
A5195	Brownhills	Chasetown
A5199	Leicester	Kingsthorpe	Was A50

Four-digit roads (52xx)[]

Road	From	To	Notes
A5200	Holborn	Tufnell Park	Grays Inn Road, York Way and Brecknock Road
A5201	Bloomsbury	Shoreditch	Clerkenwell Road and Old Street
A5202	St Pancras	Camden	Mostly split into two one-way streets, St Pancras Way and Royal College Street. Southern section used to meet the Euston Road but now runs along Goods Way.
A5203	Kings Cross	Holloway	Caledonian Road
A5204	A5	Tottenham Court Road	Wigmore Street, Mortimer Street, Goodge Street
A5205	Maida Vale	Camden Town	Starts at junction of A4201 Albany Street, (Piccadilly Circus to Camden Town via Portland, Fitzrovia) goes via the A41 Park Road Junction (A41 Wellington Road) as the Prince Albert Road, and then continues to the A5 at Maida Vale as St. John's Wood Road. The road can be used as a northern bypass to the London Inner Ring Road between the Edgware Road and Great Portland Street section, and is often a much faster route than the A501 in this section.
A5206	A38 near Lichfield	Lichfield
A5207	A5207	A580	Another one coexisted from Aintree to Thornton; it became the B5207 (another duplicated number) in 2015 when A5758 opened.
A5208	Kirkby	A580
A5209	Standish	Burscough
	Unused		Mapping error for the B5219.
A5223	Telford	A442
	Unused		Was a proposed road from M6 at Orrell to M61; this scheme was withdrawn in 1996. Later proposed for a road from M6 to A579; this scheme was withdrawn in 2007. A proposed road from the A49 to the B5238 in Wigan started construction in 2018, and will later extend west to the M6. It is unknown if the road will be given this number or not.
A5227	Birkenhead	Birkenhead	Borough Road East flyover between A41 and A552
A5228	Luton	Luton
	Unused
A5230		Blackpool Beach	Known as the Squires Gate Link Road, this links the M55 with Blackpool Airport and the southern end of the Promenade. Partly follows former alignment of Blackpool Branch Line.
A5250	A38 near Littleover	Derby	Old A38
	Unused
A5267	Birkdale	Churchtown
A5268	Chester	Chester	Inner ring road
A5270	Buxton	Buxton
A5271	East Keswick	North Keswick
A5271	Wolstanton	Tunstall	Duplicated Number
A5272	Weston Coyney	Great Chell
	A562 in Speke	A561 in Speke
	Unused
	Warrington	Warrington	New road west of Warrington, created 2017.
	Warrington	Warrington	New road west of Warrington, created 2017.
	Warrington	Warrington	New road west of Warrington, created 2017.
A5284	A591 junction, north end of Kendal Bypass	Kendal

Four-digit roads (53xx to 57xx)[]

Road	From	To	Notes
A5300	M57 / M62 junction	A562 between Halewood and Widnes	Commonly known as Knowsley Expressway
A5301	Unused		Was used for the south Nantwich bypass (now A530; old A530 is now B5341, local streets, and B5334).
A5460	M1 / M69 at J21	Leicester Inner ring road A594 (Leicester)	Was originally part of the A46 (Narborough Road)
A5480	Blacon	Upton
	M1 Junction 11A	Dunstable	Woodside Link
A5509	Northwich inner ring road		was part of the B5337 until 2011.
A5630	Anstey	A563	Leicester Ring Road to Leicester Western Bypass/Anstey link road
A5758	Aintree	Thornton	Replacement of parallel A5207

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