Queensway is a main coastal road in the

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and the only road servicing the oldest leisure marina on The Rock, Queensway Quay. It connects the marina with the industrial park in the southern end of the

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Description

Queensway is built on

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immediately to the west of

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, Gibraltar's main city wall and runs along most of its length. It was renamed ''Queensway'' after a visit by

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in 1954.City walls...
visitgibraltar.gi, accessed 12 March 2013 The road begins in northern Gibraltar at the roundabout with Glacis Road and

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. It begins to the southwest for about before heading south-southwest. It passes Europort Avenue and Reclamation Road before passing running parallel to

. Near the

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there is a roundabout at Ragged Staff Gates connecting it to Ragged Staff Road. Queensway comes to an end at this roundabout, although a road continues into the industrial park and dockyard.

Economy

Queensway Quay located west of this road takes its name. In the early 1990s,

Taylor Woodrow Taylor Woodrow was one of the largest housebuilding and general construction companies in Britain. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until its merger with rival housebuilder George Wimpey ...

facilitated a £50 million development along Queensway, developing a hotel, apartments and marina complex at the quayside.

References

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