Gloucester Road

This is right next to the Gloucester Road, originally a turnpike road built in 1749.

Imagine that...

It is part of the A38 which runs all the way from Bodmin in Cornwall to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire which apparently is 292 miles. This makes it quite long on the list of all time long A roads..!

My parents would have come this way on holidays to Cornwall from Birmingham before the M5 was built.

Before the M5?! Was there such a time?

From just North of Bristol (Almondsbury, in fact) the road follows the path of the Roman Road to Gloucester.

Gloucester used to be the lowest point at which there was a bridge across the Severn. Things have changed...

A cheeky link to this taken when Untrained Eye had reached a significant milestone. Save to say it was 16 years ago but a great experience - cakes made entirely from biscuit crumbs, Yak burgers, a spaced out feeling for about 2 weeks and more conversations about quality of bowel movements than you could imagine... And a bit of Everest!