The A6030 is a small ring-road entirely within the built-up central area of

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, from its roundabout with the

A563 The A563 is the designation for the ring road of Leicester, England. It forms a near-complete circuit except for a gap of around in the east of the city. An indirect route linking the gap involves the ( A47) A6030, and A6. The A563 was form ...

near

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, south to cross the A47 at Evington, past Leicester General Hospital and the Leicestershire Golf Club to meet the A6 again at

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near Oadby. The road is a useful part of the route from the M1 at its junction with the M69 (M1/J21) to the A47 heading towards Peterborough and beyond, effectively "plugging the gap" in the A563 ring-road between the A6 at Oadby and the A47 at Highfields.

History

The section of road between Gipsy Lane and the A563 was opened in April 2005 to make it easier for traffic to get to Oadby and the A6, otherwise they would have had to use the unfinished A563 to get to Oadby. The small section of road between Red Hill Circle and the A607 still has the 'A6030' road name but the rest of the old road has been downgraded. The stretch between Red Hill Circle and Gypsy Lane was originally the A6 (Loughborough Road). The A6030 was meant to be the eastern half of the A563 at one stage. At its junction with Hastings Road, where the A6030 effectively turns off to the north, there is a strip of land as far as the railway line (which has now had a housing estate with

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s built on it, you can still see where the road would have gone). The A6030 would then have obliterated Canon Street and Ratcliffe Street, continued West over the

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, lining up with Corporation Road and then

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Lane. This would then have curved, approximating the later line of Strasbourg Drive, to line up with the western half of the A563.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:6-6030 Roads in England Transport in Leicester Ring roads in the United Kingdom