The A4018 is an A-road connecting the

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to the

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. It is one of the four principal roads which link central Bristol to the motorway network (the others being the

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, the A38 and the Portway).

Route

The A4018 runs for , starting at a junction with the A4 and A38 at The Centre, and finishing at junction 17 of the

. The route includes Park Street and

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. It then passes over part of

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on Westbury Road, then along Falcondale Road and Passage Road through

Westbury-on-Trym Westbury-on-Trym (sometimes written without hyphenation) is a suburb in the north of the City of Bristol, near the suburbs of Stoke Bishop, Westbury Park, Henleaze, Southmead and Henbury, in the southwest of England. The place is partly na ...

and

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. The final part of the A4018 is Cribbs Causeway, near

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. Part of the road forms the boundary for the Westbury-on-Trym electoral ward in Bristol.

History

The original route of the A4018 went from Bristol to

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via Durdham Down and Shirehampton Road, the main road between Bristol and Avonmouth before the Portway was opened in 1926. By the 1940s only the route from the centre of Bristol to Durdham Down was designated the A4018, and the remainder of the route had been redesignated the B4054. In 1959 Passage Road was widened and rebuilt, and by 1962 the route of the A4018 was extended from Durdham Down to Cribbs Causeway along the former route of the B4055 (Westbury Road), unclassified roads (Falcondale Road and Passage Road) and a further part of the B4055 (Cribbs Causeway), linking with the New Filton Bypass which ran from Cribbs Causeway to the A38 north of

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. In December 1971 the New Filton Bypass was incorporated into the M5 motorway, and the A4018, by then dualled from Cribbs Causeway to Westbury-on-Trym, became the principal road linking the motorway to west Bristol.

Places of interest

Sites close to the route of the road include Blaise Castle, an

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hill fortification.

References

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