A roads in Zone 7 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain

List of A roads in the zone 7 in Great Britain starting north of the Solway Firth/Eden Estuary, west of the A7 and south of the A8 (roads beginning with 7). Data from Openstreetmap.

Single and double digit roads[]

Road	From	To	Notes
A7	Carlisle	Edinburgh	92 miles (148 km) long. One of the longest trunk routes in Scotland.
A70	Ayr	Edinburgh	74 miles (119 km) long. The 2012 Collins Big Road Atlas shows the A70 as one of the five most dangerous roads in Scotland based on serious and fatal accidents between 2007 and 2009 in proportion to traffic.^[1]
A71	Irvine	Edinburgh	Around 70 miles (112 km) long.
A72	Hamilton	Galashiels	63 miles (101 km) long.
A73	Abington	Cumbernauld	37 miles (60 km) long.
A74	Viewpark	Glasgow	Used to continue down the modern day B7078 and B7076 all the way to Gretna. However, this task is now completed by the M74.
A75	Gretna	Stranraer
A76	Dumfries	Kilmarnock
A77	Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway	Glasgow
A78	Greenock	Monkton
A79	Ayr	Glasgow Prestwick Airport	7.5 miles (12.1 km) long, making it the second shortest 2-digit A-road in the UK.

Three and four digit numbers[]

Road	From	To	Notes
A700	Sciennes, Edinburgh	New Town, Edinburgh
A701	Dumfries	Edinburgh	Originally went south from Leadburn via current A703 to Peebles; road was rerouted later.
A702	St. John's Town of Dalry	Edinburgh
A703	Peebles	Edinburgh City Bypass junction 6, Lothianburn	Runs as A701 between Bilston and Leadburn, Midlothian. Route primarily within Scottish Borders Council district, southeastern Scotland.
A704		West Calder
A705	Whitburn	Livingston
A706	Lanark	Bo'ness	Replaced by A801 between Torphichen and . Formerly A8 between Standhill and Whitburn. The former alignment is now the B8084.
A707	Selkirk	Clovenfords
A708	Moffat	Selkirk	The 2012 Collins Big Road Atlas shows the A708 as one of the five most dangerous roads in Scotland based on serious and fatal accidents between 2007 and 2009 in proportion to traffic.^[1] Formerly continued south to Dumfries; this section became part of the A701.
A709	Lockerbie	Dumfries
A710	Dumfries	Dalbeattie
A711	Dumfries
A712	Crocketford	Newton Stewart
A713	Castle Douglas	Ayr
A714	Kirkinner	Girvan
	Unused		Ran from Dunragit to Sandhead (now B7084).
A716		Drummore
A717	Stranraer	Stranraer
A718	Stranraer	Kirkcolm
A719	Turnberry	Fenwick	Passes over the Electric Brae.
A720	Musselburgh	South Gyle	Edinburgh City Bypass. Number formerly applied to a road from A702 north of Abington to A72 in Symington; this is now part of the A73.
A721	(Peeblesshire)	Broomhouse	Formerly continued wast concurrent with the A74 to Hamilton Road, and then followed Hamilton Road and Tollcross Road to the A89.
A722	Wishaw	Newmains
A723	Strathaven	Holytown
A724	Rutherglen	Hamilton	Number formerly applied to a road from A721 to A74 in Hamilton; this became part of the A74 (now B7071), and the number was reassigned to the old route of the A74.
A725	Coatbridge	East Kilbride	Also known as the “Bellshill Bypass" from Shawhead to the Raith Interchange and the "East Kilbride Expressway" from the Raith to East Kilbride.
A726	Erskine / Newton Mearns	Darnley / Strathaven	Re-routed via Glasgow Southern Orbital route from 2006 between East Kilbride and Newton Mearns. Other section runs via centre of Paisley. Both sections connect to the M77, but at different junctions two miles apart. Former A726 between Peel Park and Deaconsbank now renumbered A727.
A727	Philipshill, East Kilbride	Darnley	Number formerly (pre-1980s) applied to a road from A8 (now Trongate) in Gorbals Cross to A726 (now A727) in Clarkston; this is now Stockwell Street, A8, A730, Pollokshaws Road, Victoria Road, Queen's Drive, Langside Road, Grange Road, Battlefield Road, Holmlea Road, B762, and B767. A727 number recreated in 2006 following opening of Glasgow Southern Orbital route from Newton Mearns to East Kilbride, with new A727 taking over what would have been formerly numbered A726.
A728	Shawfield / Simshill	Parkhead / Gorbals	One part of the A728 forms the southern section of the Glasgow East End Regeneration Route, between Parkhead and Polmadie, roughly following the course of the abandoned Glasgow Outer Ring Road motorway proposals of the 1960s. The road was completed in 2012 as part of the Clyde Gateway project in preparation for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The other part is separate, running south from near Glasgow city centre, passing Hampden Park.
	Unused		Proposed for Gorbals side of A728. Number formerly (pre-1980s) applied to a road on Cathcart Street from A730 to Pollokshaws Road (then part of the A727) in Glasgow.
A730	Cathkin Bypass (Whitlawburn)	Gorbals Cross
	Unused		Ran via Glasgow Road/Shawfield Road and Main Street from A730 to A749 in Rutherglen.
	Unused		Used to be used for London Road from Bridgeton east to A721 (now Hamilton Road); this is now part of the A74.
	Unused		Ran from A77 northeast of Fenwick to east of Ayr (now part of the A719).
	Unused		Ran from Hurlford to Riccarton (now the A71 and B7072; at the same time, the old A71 became the B7073).
A735	Kilmarnock	Lugton
A736	Braehead	Irvine	Formerly (from its junction with the B762) went east via what is now the B762, B769 and Pollokshaws Road to the A77. Runs from the A8 near Braehead, via Crookston, Barrhead and Shilford, into Irvine.
A737	Irvine	Paisley	Formerly continued from Hollywood to Milliken Park (now B787), round the south east of Johnstone (now Beith Road; unclassified), to Elderslie (now B789) and onto Paisley to Glasgow (now A761 & A8), making it the road in the UK which has changed route the most times. Even in the present day, there are 3 new bypasses being built which will change the route of this road even further.
A738	Ardrossan	Kilwinning	Formerly A78 through Ardeer Square. Number formerly applied to a road from Stevenson to Ardrossan; this became the B780 in 2004 and the number was reused on the current routing.
A739	Cardonald	Bearsden	Incorporates the Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow. Designated as a primary route only through the tunnel and its approaches. Number formerly applied to a road from A78 (now A738) Ardrossan southwest to Ardrossan Harbour; this became part of the A738 and a spur of the A738, and is now part of the B780 and a spur of the B780.
	Unused		Ran from Glasgow Airport to Johnstone (Now A737; old A737 became B787, Beith Road, B789, A761, and A8). Original route ran from Paisley to Old Kilpatrick (became part of the A726, which the westernmost portion later became A898).
A741	Paisley	Renfrew
	Unused		Ran from Greenock to Inverkip (became A78; old A78 became A770).
A743	Lanark	Ravenstruther
	Unused		Ran from Strathaven to Kirkfieldbank (section west of Kirkmuirhill became the A726; the entire route is now the B7086).
A745	Dalbeattie	Castle Douglas
A746	Glasserton	Kirkinner
A747	Glasserton	Glenluce
	Unused		Ran from A75 east of Dunragit to A715 (now B7084).
A749	Glasgow	East Kilbride
	Unused		Ran from Whithorn to Isle of Whithorn (now B7004).
A751	Aird	Innermessan
A752	Thorniewood	Muirhead	Number formerly applied to a road from A72 south of Kirkdean to Moffat (became part of the A701)
	Unused		Ran from Carnwath to Kirkdean (now A721).
	Unused		Ran from A8 north of Hillington south to A736 (now part of A736; the old route of the A736 east to A77, now B769, is now the B762). Original route ran from Carluke to Carstairs (now A721).
A755	Kirkcudbright
A756	Dumfries	Maxwelltown	Route became a spur of the A75, but reverted to its original number when the A75 was rerouted.
	Unused		Ran from Genoch Square to Lochans (now B7077).
	Unused		Ran from Ayr to Mauchline (now A719 and B743).
A759	Troon	Kilmarnock
A760	Largs	Lochwinnoch
A761	Ibrox	Port Glasgow	Southern end formerly at Elderslie where it met the original A737.
A762		St John's Town of Dalry
A763	Cambuslang	Carmyle
	Unused		Ran from Portpatrick to Portslogan (now B738).
	Unused		Ran from Ballantrae to Pinwherry (now B734).
A766	Nine Mile Burn	Penicuik
	Unused		Ran from Uphall to Mid Calder (now B8046).
A768	Bilston	Eskbank
	Unused		Ran from Bogue to Balmaclellan (now B7075).
A770	Inverkip	Greenock	Comprising the former western end of the A8 and former northern end of the A78.
A771	Cardwell Road, Gourock	Gourock Ferry Terminal	Using part of a former siding from Gourock railway station.
A772	Eskbank	Edinburgh
A775	Mossend	Newhouse
	Unused		Ran from East Kilbride to Burnbank; this became part of an extended A725, which was later rerouted onto the bypass.
	Unused		Ran from A78 south via Main Street to Monkton.
A779	Livingston	Bathgate
A780	Dumfries
A781	Buccleuch St, Dumfries	Dockhead, Dumfries
	Unused		Ran from A706 and A7066 to A705 in East Whitburn (this was a renumbering of part of the B7002); now part of the A801.
A7066	Boghall		Formerly part of the A8 road (see also A89 and B7066).
	Bothwell	Bothwell	New road created 2017; numbered as a spur of the B7071.