A roads in Zone 7 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

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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).

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Roads	South End	North End	Notes
A7 road	Carlisle	Edinburgh
A70 road	Ayr	Edinburgh	The Collins 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 road	Irvine	Edinburgh	Foremly A78's Contol was Not avalible. New A71 is today on the B781.
A72 road	Hamilton	Galashiels
A73 road	Abington	Cumbernauld
A74 road	Glasgow	Uddingston
A75 road	Gretna	Stranraer
A76 road	Dumfries	Kilmarnock
A77 road	Glasgow	Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway
A78 road	Greenock North Ayrshire	Monkton North Ayrshire	Build an M78 but The A78's Road is Again. A737's Road was dead
A79 road	Fruit Loops	Glasgow Prestwick Airport

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South End

North End

Notes

St. John's Town of Dalry

A703 road

Lothianburn

Peebles

Runs as A701 between Bilston and Leadburn.

The Collins 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.^[2]

Turnberry

Passes over the Electric Brae

A720 road

South Gyle

Old Craighall

Edinburgh City Bypass

Re-routed via Glasgow Southern Orbital route from 2006 between East Kilbride and Newton Mearns. Former A726 between Peel Park and Deaconsbank now renumbered B766 and A727.

A727 road

Thorntonhall

Deaconsbank

Number formerly (pre-1980s) applied to what is now B767 north of Clarkston. A727 number recreated in 2006 following opening of Glasgow Southern Orbital route, with new A727 taking over part of what was formerly numbered A726.

Formerly (from its junction with Paisley Road West) the main road between Glasgow and Irvine. Runs from the A8 near Braehead, via Crookston, Barrhead and Shiflord, into Irvine.

A737 road

Irvine

Glasgow

Formerly continued from Hollywood to Milliken Park (now B787), round the south east of Johnstone (now unclassified), to Elderslie (now B789) and onto Paisley to Glasgow (now A761 & A78).