C-Roads
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To accompany the Great C-Road Hunt, a small set of photos showing that these things really do exist! The first four photos are courtesy of John H Boddy.
If you head south through Scunthorpe on the A159, you'll encounter this sign when you cross Station Road - the C173.
Just to double check it - yes, it's signed exactly the same from the other direction!
Signs ahead of this roundabout on the B1217, close to Scunthorpe, reveal you can find the C221 further down the road. If you continue in this direction there's no further mention of the C-road.
Another double check from another approach to the roundabout - yes, the C221's still there! Further along the B1217 there used to be signs denoting Scotter Road as the C221 but these have since been removed.
E J Matthew spotted this one from Laurieston to Gatehouse of Fleet a while back, and has since taken a photo to prove its existence. Ladies and gents, the C13!
Carl Ryding found evidence of the C3047 here.
The U5509 has been signposted by Cumbria County Council. Richard C took this photo to prove it.
Steve Haskew grabbed a photo of this renegade signpost on Hayling Island, near Portsmouth.
Chris Larsen took this (and the following) pictures of C-roads around Newcastle.
This (and the one above) are on a traffic island, but have been turned away from the road.
Here's a C-road route confirmation!
Another traffic island and some odd signing for a 20 zone.
The road between Prudhoe and Ovingham is signposted at this roundabout, from the A695...
...from the south...
...and from the north.
Looking at this bridge along the route, it's never going to be more than a C-road! It's 6' 6" wide and signposted with a 10mph limit.
Runfold in Surrey, and Toby Speight has snapped a great example of C-road signing.
Tony Davies spotted this temporary example at Moss Lane, Southport.
Peter took this photo on the A52 at Ingoldmells, north of Skegness.
In Northern Ireland, travellers on the A20 near Newtownards are given the option of travelling on the C264 - as Wesley Johnston found.
Jonny boy also came across this one - and took a close-up of that sign in the distance in Wesley's picture.
Deryn Hawkins spotted this charming example north of Portsmouth in Horndean. (The sign is also wrong; its blue patch should read "(A3(M))"...)
Mark Stevens found the C237 hiding away in Poyle near Slough - but since then the sign's been removed.
Stuart Wade found the C48 in the Scottish Borders and promptly snapped it up.
Toby Speight tracked down the C368 at the northern end of the A19 at Seaton Burn...
...and found it literally had its number written all over it.
In travelling the B4114, Nic Storr spotted a C-road closure.
Dan Warrington's been on his travels, visiting the C3047 between Shap and Penrith, just off the A6...
...and to Tarbert, Kintyre, to see the UC26.
Here's the C78 Tarbert to Scalpay road revealed on a road sign...
...and the C79 on the "Golden Road" nearby.
Chris Thomson pedalled across the Pennines to spot the C577, south of Holmfirth.
Colin located and photographed this self-important C32 sign at Hawes in North Yorkshire - why is it yellow? Geoff Eddy also sent in a photo at the same time, but it was pretty much the same and Colin won the coin toss. Sorry Geoff!
Rob Shufflebotham managed to get a picture of the matching sign at the other end of the C32. They make quite an odd pair.
This pre-1963 example on Islay in the far north of Scotland was first spotted by Richard Smith, but it took the skill and cunning of Ben Harper to photograph it.
Jonny boy has been busy in Northern Ireland, snapping the C43 to Connor and Kells...
...and also the C552 to the spectacularly-named Moneyneaney!
Mike Burns was journeying near Inverness when he found himself on the C14...
...which in turn spawned the C22.
The C39 makes no bones about its existence here on the island of Lewis. Eifion was on hand to snap it.
An anonymous contributor took this picture of the C100's appearance at Handy Cross, on a temporary sign as part of the now-complete motorway junction upgrade.
Jon Bentley took this picture of the C1143 in Ceredigion (or, if you're an old traditional Empire-building type, Cardiganshire).
Mike Burns was minding his own business near Benbecula Airport, between North and South Uist, when this C-road suddenly appeared.
Colin Ward fought his way through the swamps and jungles of Lincolnshire to find the C326 on a venerable fingerpost in Caythorpe.
Ceridwen found this C-road in Pembrokeshire announced on a sign that was erected when the whole of this narrow track was widened as part of a wind farm project.
David Brown found the C13 (not the same as the one to Gatehouse of Fleet, above) on the Blandford Forum bypass, and was relieved to see that access to the Sunrise Business Park was unaffected.
This sign for the C1 in Scotland was taken by David Harding in August 1985. It's probably not there any more.
Neill Wood came across this sign in Surrey which is so marvellously complex that it's easy to miss the erroneous appearance of a C-road number.
The C85 makes a second appearance at another sign for the same junction.
Ben Harris photographed a sign dating from the 1920s in Norfolk (or at made exactly to the early 1920s Ministry of Transport standardss) showing the C83 near Middleton.
Peter Asprey provides the second C83 double bill with this one near Solas in the Western Isles.
And finally...
Ken Coton spotted the C1268 on a sign - but it's actually only a typo for the B1268. Oops!
With thanks to Michael Willsher for corrections to this page.
