A697 road
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| A697 | ||||
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| Long straight on the A697 trunk road in Berwickshire - geograph.org.uk - 938737.jpg Long straight on the A697 trunk road in Berwickshire | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Length | 68 mi (109 km) | |||
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| South end | Morpeth Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. | |||
| File:UK road A1.svg A1 File:UK road A698.svg A698 File:UK road A6105.svg A6105 File:UK road A6089.svg A6089 File:UK road A68.svg A68 | ||||
| North end | Oxton Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United Kingdom | |||
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The A697 is a road that can be used an alternative to the A1 for those travelling between Scotland and England via the North East.
Route
[edit | edit source]It connects Morpeth on the A1 to the A68 at Oxton, near Edinburgh. The road runs via Wooler and Coldstream, and passes through a largely rural area of the Scottish Borders.
Devil's Causeway
[edit | edit source]Stretches of the route overlay the Devil's Causeway, a Roman road.[citation needed]
Speed
[edit | edit source]The A697 is around 15 miles (24 km) shorter and an average time of 23 minutes quicker than travelling up the A1, according to figures from the RAC route planner.[citation needed]
Settlements on route
[edit | edit source]The road runs through
- Morpeth[1]
- Espley
- Longhorsley
- Weldon
- Longframlington
- Thrunton
- Powburn
- Wooperton
- Haugh Head
- Wooler
- Low Humbleton
- Akeld
- Milfield
- Crookham
- Cornhill on Tweed
- Coldstream[1]
- Orange Lane
- Greenlaw
- Houndslow
- Thirlestane
- Oxton
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
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