The A4226 (better known as The Five Mile Lane) is a main road linking

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and

Cardiff International Airport Cardiff Airport () is an airport in Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan. It is the only airport offering commercial passenger services and cargo services in Wales. The airport is owned by the Welsh Government, operating it at arm's length as a commerci ...

(CIA) in the

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Road course

First stage

The A4226 begins at the junction with the

A48 road The A48 is a trunk road in Great Britain running from the A40 at Highnam, west of Gloucester, England, to the A40 at Carmarthen, Wales. Before the Severn Bridge opened on 8 September 1966, it was a major route between England and South Wale ...

(Sycamore Cross) just east of Bonvilston and south of Gwern-y-Steeple and

Peterston-Super-Ely Peterston-super-Ely () is a village and Community (Wales), community situated on the River Ely () in the county borough of the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The community population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 874. The commu ...

. It heads in a southerly direction past numerous farms and country lanes leading off to hamlets such as Llancadle, Moulton,

Walterston Walterston () is a small farming hamlet in the community of Llancarfan, just north of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales and west of Dyffryn. Walterston lies just to west of the Five Mile Lane leading down to Waycock Cross, Barry. ...

and

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etc., past the Welsh Hawking Centre until the junction with Port Road (leading to the

A4050 road The A4050 road connects Barry, Vale of Glamorgan with Culverhouse Cross on the outskirts of Cardiff, Wales. It is approximately long, and is the key link road between the M4 motorway and Cardiff International Airport. 2008 road improvement ...

Colcot Colcot is a northern district of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, in the Dyfan ward of South Wales. Dyfan ward is situated in the north west of Barry and its most northern edge is on the green belt of the town. Port Road West runs through the ward and is ...

roundabout) at Weycock Cross in northwestern

The Five Mile Lane

This initial stage of the road is widely known locally as The Five Mile Lane, in fact it is nearer 4 miles today but historically the road extended along what is now Pontypridd Road in Barry to Romilly, roughly 5 miles in total.

Second stage

However, the A4226 route forks some 120 degrees at Weycock Cross to the right as one approaches the roundabout, where it continues in a westerly direction (continuation of Port Road West) along the northern perimeter of the airport until the entrance to the airport at the Tredogan roundabout. At this roundabout it becomes the

B4265 road The B4265 road (often known as the Barry-Llantwit road) is a main road in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeastern Wales, running in a northwesterly direction along near the coast. It links Cardiff Airport to Bridgend, lasting for 15.9 miles (25.6&nb ...

which leads to

Llantwit Major Llantwit Major () is a town and community (Wales), community in Wales on the Bristol Channel coast. It is one of four towns in the Vale of Glamorgan, with the third largest population (13,366 in 2001) after Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Barry and ...

and eventually to

Bridgend Bridgend (; or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the Old Bridge, Bridgend, medieval bridge over the River Og ...

and the turn off to the north leads to

Penmark Penmark () is a rural village south-west of Barry near Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, in South Wales. The village is a parish and is a linear village. It has a parish church along the main road running through the village. Penmark is located ...

Maintenance

On 1 July 1970, the Weycock section of the road was formally upgraded to Principal Road Status after being widened and improved. There is currently a proposal to upgrade this road to improve access to CIA. The improvements include adding straighter sections and other works to increase speeds along the road, and to extend the route designation to include the road between Sycamore Cross and the

M4 Motorway The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is the third longest motorway in the United Kingdom, running from west London to southwest Wales. The English section to the Severn Bridge was constructed between 1961 and 1971; the Welsh ele ...

Junction 34 (Miskin). The extension would also have upgrades including straighter sections to allow for faster speeds.
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