A449 road
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The A449 is a major road in the United Kingdom. It runs north from junction 24 of the M4 motorway at Newport in south Wales to join with the A40 between Abergavenny and Monmouth. The A449 reappears at Ross-on-Wye at its junction with the A40 just west of the M50 motorway (junction 4) and continues roughly north-east to Ledbury, Malvern, Worcester, then turns northwards to Kidderminster and Wolverhampton before meeting the M6 motorway at junction 13, and finally terminating in Stafford.
The dual carriageway stretch between Newport and Monmouth was built to near-motorway standards, and was intended to ease the strain on the Severn Bridge, providing an alternative route to the Midlands.
[edit] History
The section between Newport and Worcester was originally part of the A48. After renumbering, the A449 route started at the Caerleon Road/Chepstow Road intersection in Newport (at the junction of the re-routed A48), then ran along Caerleon Road, through junction 25 of the M4, Caerleon, Raglan, Monmouth, Ledbury, Malvern to Worcester. When the dual carriageway stretch between Newport and Monmouth was opened in 1972, the route from central Newport to Caerleon was reclassified B4596 and the route from Caerleon to Monmouth became unclassified.
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