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Roads and Paths

London to Portsmouth (shares its name with a popular small family car, first produced in 1996) Click to show or hide the answer
Scotland's longest road: Falkirk (council area) to Thurso, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness (237 miles, 439 km) Click to show or hide the answer
London to Land's End (with a few gaps due to renumbering, bypasses, etc.) Click to show or hide the answer
Manchester to Winchester Click to show or hide the answer
Leeds to Scarborough Click to show or hide the answer
Basingstoke (Hampshire) to Honiton (Devon); passes within about 1 kilometre of Stonehenge Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Northern Ireland M2: Belfast to Click to show or hide the answer
110 miles, from Helmsley to the Brigg (a peninsula just north of Filey, on the North Yorkshire coast) – skirting the North York Moors Click to show or hide the answer
National Trail from Chipping Camden (Gloucestershire) to Bath (Somerset) Click to show or hide the answer
Northern Ireland M1: Belfast to Click to show or hide the answer
Will be the world's longest managed and waymarked coastal path, when complete (scheduled for 2024/5)Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
High level road from Nice to Menton, along the French Riviera, famous for its views Click to show or hide the answer
Official name of Spaghetti Junction (Junction 6 on the M6, where it intersects with the A38 – in Birmingham) Click to show or hide the answer
125 km (78 mile) long–distance footpath from Fort William to Inverness, opened in 2002 Click to show or hide the answer
Long-distance footpath running for 35 miles through the Peak District, from Disley (on the outskirts of Stockport, Greater Manchester) to Kidsgrove (near Stoke–on–Trent) Click to show or hide the answer
Popular name for the North–South supply route in support of the Viet Cong, during the Vietnam war Click to show or hide the answer
USA: Federal highways are prefixed by Click to show or hide the answer
55–mile path from Ollantaytambo, in the valley of the Urubamba River, to Machu Picchu (all in Peru): ends at Inti Punku (the Sun Gate – the ancient entrance to Machu Picchu) Click to show or hide the answer
The Wild Atlantic Way is a 2,500–kilometre "tourist trail" (for motorists) in (country) Click to show or hide the answer
Official name of the M25 Click to show or hide the answer
40–mile 'challenge walk' across the North York Moors, from Osmotherley to Ravenscar Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
London to Southampton – via Fanrborough, Basingstoke and Winchester Click to show or hide the answer
Britain's longest motorway (232.2 miles, 373.7 km) Click to show or hide the answer
Edinburgh to GlasgowClick for more information Click to show or hide the answer
From the M8 (near Edinburgh Airport) to Stirling Click to show or hide the answer
London to Cambridge; serves Stansted Airport Click to show or hide the answer
Runs from the M1 near Sheffield / Rotherham to the M62 near Goole Click to show or hide the answer
Motorway that serves Gatwick airport (ends approx. 6 miles further south at Pease Pottage, south of Crawley and east of Horsham Click to show or hide the answer
Cadnam (near Southampton) to Portsmouth Click to show or hide the answer
Runs from the M25 near Denham, Buckinghamshire, to the M42 near Earlswood, Warwickshire Click to show or hide the answer
Current designation of the motorway that crosses the original Severn Bridge (previously the M4) Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Links the Second Severn Crossing (which is part of the M4) to the M5 at Avonmouth Click to show or hide the answer
Runs from the M5 near Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire), merging with the A40 near Ross–on–Wye (Herefordshire); a.k.a. the Ross Spur Click to show or hide the answer
Runs from the A55 at Chester, to provide a route to the Kingsway tunnel, under the Mersey from Wallasey; opened in 1972 Click to show or hide the answer
Runs from the M6 near Preston, to Blackpool Click to show or hide the answer
Completely replaced in 1999, becoming part of the M60 Click to show or hide the answer
Links Leicester and Coventry Click to show or hide the answer
From the Northern end of the M6, to Glasgow Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Runs from the M62 into the outskirts of Bradford Click to show or hide the answer
Runs from the M62 into the centre of Leeds Click to show or hide the answer
Britain's most northerly motorway: runs from the M9 (West of Edinburgh Airport) to Perth (via the Forth Road Bridge, which is an A road with the same number) Click to show or hide the answer
230–mile path for walkers, cyclists and horse riders, from Bledlow, Buckinghamshire to Stockport, Greater Manchester – opened in 1994 Click to show or hide the answer
A406 (London) Click to show or hide the answer
National Trail, opened in 1978: runs from Farnham (Surrey) to Dover (Kent), through the Surrey Hills and Kent Downs AONBs Click to show or hide the answer
Runs from Sedbury Cliffs, on the Severn Estuary near Chepstow, to Prestatyn Click to show or hide the answer
Pioneer route across the USA, 1841–60, running 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri through the Rockies to the Columbia River Click to show or hide the answer
Runs down the Florida Keys to Key West Click to show or hide the answer
Runs approximately 15,000 miles from Chile to Alaska Click to show or hide the answer
Runs from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders Click to show or hide the answer
Followed (with slight deviations) by the Spine Race 'ultramarathon', held annually since 2012 – competitors are allowed seven days to complete
Town by–passed by Britain's first motorway (now part of the M6), 1958 Click to show or hide the answer
Said to be Britain's oldest road: adapted and extended as a National Trail, opened in 1972 and running for 87 miles from Overton Hill (near Avebury, Wiltshire) to Ivinghoe Beacon in the Chilterns (Buckinghamshire) Click to show or hide the answer
Runs up the east coast of the USA, from Key West, Florida to Fort Kent, Maine Click to show or hide the answer
Santa Monica (Los Angeles) to Chicago; unofficially known as the Will Rogers Highway Click to show or hide the answer
34 miles from Frodsham (Chesire) to Whitchurch (Shropshire) Click to show or hide the answer
Interconnected series of trade routes from India to Asia Minor and the Mediterranean; goes from Aleppo to Samarkand Click to show or hide the answer
Trans–Pennine road from Glossop to Ladybower Reservoir – part of the A57 Click to show or hide the answer
Long distance footpath from Winchester to Eastbourne (via Beachy Head); highlights include Wilmington Long Man and Chanctonbury Ring Click to show or hide the answer
Britain's longest waymarked footpath (630 miles, Minehead to Poole) – but see England Coast Path Click to show or hide the answer
Unofficial and largely unsignposted long distance footpath from St. Bees Head (in the west) to Robin Hood's Bay (in the east) Click to show or hide the answer
Opened in 2012: an 870–mile (1,400 km) walking route from Chepstow (Monmouthshire) to Queensferry (Flintshire) Click to show or hide the answer
96 miles, from Milngavie (on the outskirts of Glasgow) to Fort William Click to show or hide the answer
35 miles, from Norwich to Great Yarmouth, following the River Yare wherever possible; name refers to the traditional trading boats that operated in Norfolk and Suffolk from the early 17th century Click to show or hide the answer
31 miles, from Bewdley to Great Malvern Click to show or hide the answer

The non–departmental public body (quango) responsible for England's national trails: formed in 2006 by the merger of the Countryside Agency, English Nature, and the Rural Development service; responsible to ("sponsored by") DEFRA Click to show or hide the answer
Symbol used "in the field" to mark national trails Click to show or hide the answer

The 'Triple Crown' of long–distance hiking in the USA:

Follows the highest portion of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges, 100–150 miles (160–240 km) inland from the US west coast: 2,659 miles (4,279 km) Click to show or hide the answer
Follows the principal watershed of the Americas from Mexico to Canada, along the Rocky Mountains and through five US states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico) – 3,100 miles (5,000 km) Click to show or hide the answer
From Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine: 2,200 miles (3,500 km) Click to show or hide the answer

© Haydn Thompson 2017–23