The A4146 is an A-class road in England running from (near) M1 junction 14 at

Milton Keynes Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...

, around

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and

Leighton Buzzard Leighton Buzzard ( ) is a market town in Bedfordshire, England, in the southwest of the county and close to the Buckinghamshire border. It lies between Aylesbury, Tring, Luton/Dunstable and Milton Keynes, near the Chiltern Hills. It is northwes ...

as far as the

A505 The A505 is an A-class road in England. It follows part of the route of the Icknield Way and the corresponding Icknield Way Path and runs from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire to the A11 Abington Interchange North in Cambridgeshire. Route ...

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Route

Milton Keynes

In Milton Keynes, the road begins at a junction with the

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near Junction 14 of the

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and briefly follows H6 Childs Way westwards before turning south onto the V11 Tongwell Street, west again onto the

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and once more to the south where it

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with the A5. It then separates again at the "Kelly's Kitchen"

roundabout A roundabout is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.''The New Shorter Oxford En ...

heading west to bypass the southern flank of

Bletchley Bletchley is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated in the south-west of Milton Keynes, and is split between the civil parishes of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford and West Bletchley. Bletchley is best known ...

Linslade & Stoke Hammond Western Bypass

At the end of this single-carriageway bypass, from a point just south of the Water Eaton estate, a new alignment has been built for the road to continue west on a short stretch of dual carriageway bypassing Linslade and

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and to hug the

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for most of the way south towards Leighton Buzzard. The route is planned to tie in with a proposed A418

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bypass. The new road features five new roundabouts, four over-bridges and three under-passes. The bypass was the focus on an anti- road protest. During the protest two women chained themselves to a digger. They were arrested and charged, but later acquitted.

Leighton Buzzard southern bypass

At a roundabout at the start of the A418 just north of Ascott, the A4146 takes over the former route of the

A505 road The A505 is an A-class road in England. It follows part of the route of the Icknield Way and the corresponding Icknield Way Path and runs from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire to the A11 Abington Interchange North in Cambridgeshire. Route ...

around the south of Leighton Buzzard. This stretch is partly a three-lane single carriageway and partly a wide two-lane single carriageway. On reaching a junction with the unclassified Leighton Road (Leighton BuzzardBilling), the A4146 designation ends and the route continues eastwards as the A505.

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