A roads
A road
A roads may be
*motorways or freeways, usually where the local word for motorway begins with A (for example, ''Autobahn'' in German; ''Autostrada'' in Italian).
* main roads or highways, in a system where roads are graded A, B and sometimes lower c ...
s are numbered routes in
Great Britain
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. See the article ''
Great Britain road numbering scheme
The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads in Great Britain.
Each road is given a single letter (which represents the road's category) and a subsequent number (between 1 and 4 digits) ...
'' for the rationale behind the numbers allocated.
Depending on the first digit of the road's number see:
*
Zone 1 (road beginning with 1)
*
Zone 2 (road beginning with 2)
*
Zone 3 (road beginning with 3)
*
Zone 4 (road beginning with 4)
*
Zone 5 (road beginning with 5)
*
Zone 6 (road beginning with 6)
*
Zone 7 (road beginning with 7)
*
Zone 8 (road beginning with 8)
*
Zone 9 (road beginning with 9)
B roads
B roads are numbered routes in
Great Britain
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of lesser importance than
A road
A roads may be
*motorways or freeways, usually where the local word for motorway begins with A (for example, ''Autobahn'' in German; ''Autostrada'' in Italian).
* main roads or highways, in a system where roads are graded A, B and sometimes lower c ...
s. See the article ''
Great Britain road numbering scheme
The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads in Great Britain.
Each road is given a single letter (which represents the road's category) and a subsequent number (between 1 and 4 digits) ...
'' for the rationale behind the numbers allocated.
Depending on the first digit of the road's number see:
*
Zone 1
*
Zone 2
*
Zone 3
*
Zone 4
*
Zone 5
*
Zone 6
*
Zone 7
*
Zone 8
*
Zone 9
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