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

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and

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(CIA) in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

Road course

First stage

The A4226 begins at the junction with the A48 road (Sycamore Cross) just east of Bonvilston and south of

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and

Peterston-Super-Ely Peterston-super-Ely ( cy, Llanbedr-y-fro) is a village and community situated on the River Ely ( cy, Afon Elái) in the county borough of the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The community population at the 2011 census was 874. The community include ...

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

Llancadle Llancadle ( cy, Llancatal) is a rural village south-west of Barry near Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, in Wales. Llancadle is located near the international airport for Wales, Cardiff International Airport. It has what used to be a pub ...

, Moulton,

Walterston Walterston ( cy, Tre-walter) is a small farming hamlet 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. The hamlet is ver ...

and Dyffryn Gardens etc., past the

Welsh Hawking Centre The Welsh Hawking Centre and Children's Animal Park is a hawking centre on Weycock Road ( A4226 road) on the northwestern outskirts of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, in southern Wales. It contains the largest collection of birds of prey in Wales, with ...

until the junction with Port Road (leading to the

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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 which leads to

Llantwit Major Llantwit Major ( cy, Llanilltud Fawr) is a town and 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 and Penarth, and ahead of Cowb ...

and eventually to Bridgend and the turn off to the north leads to Penmark.

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

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

References

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