A308 road
A308 | ||
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The A308 is a road in England in two parts. The first part runs from
Central London
Kensington and Chelsea
The
Hammersmith and Fulham
Through broad Fulham which traditionally, as bolstered by its associated London postcode, covers half of the borough,[1] the road becomes New Kings Road, before it ends at the A219 road (Fulham Palace Road), 100m north of Putney Bridge.
Outer London
Kingston Upon Thames
The hiatus in the road which is
The road is named Kingston Vale then Kingston Hill until it falls past Kingston Hospital to becomes London Road. Immediately after snaking through central Kingston upon Thames as part of the one-way system, the road passes through a tunnel underneath the John Lewis Kingston department store, before crossing the River Thames at Kingston Bridge where it has another roundabout.
Richmond Upon Thames
The A308 in this borough is called Hampton Court Road, briefly Thames Street and then Upper Sunbury Road. It occupies a space carved out of the Royal Estate for it between Bushy Park and Hampton Court Park, and passes Hampton Court Palace including the roundabout opposite the Palace Gates, before continuing west through broad Hampton, passing its prominent parish church and waterworks to exit Greater London.
Surrey
The largely straight road from Hampton Court was surfaced and tolled in the 1780s by the Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust.[2] In the west its buildings were set back with gardens and therefore it was widened in Spelthorne in the 1920s.[3]
As Staines Road East, the A308 winds past
The road turns north-west, as Windsor Road, in the middle of Runnymede's meadows, with its National Trust buildings and memorials, before leaving Surrey and entering Berkshire.
Berkshire
In Berkshire, the A308 forms the main road of the town of
References
- ^ Samuel Lewis (publisher) (1848). "Fulham". A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ Samuel Lewis, ed. (1848). "Fulford โ Fylingdales". A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ISBN 9781860772696.