Round the Bend
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Take the A24 between Leatherhead and Dorking and you'll find a dual carriageway with some peculiar features. The Mickleham Bypass, which forms the majority of the route, was opened in 1938 as one of the UK's earliest fully dual carriageway roads and follows the flat ground alongside the twisting river Mole. By today's standards, it's narrow and badly aligned with dangerous junctions, and until the late 1990s the Mickleham Bends were officially one of the most accident-prone roads in the UK.
Today its safety record has been improved with the imposition of a 50mph limit for most of the route and the narrowing of the sub-standard southbound carriageway to one lane. This video contains the whole route in real time, from Leatherhead to south of Mickleham and back.
CBRD has a photo gallery of the Mickleham Bends charting the route and history of the bypass and exploring the old road through the village.
Mickleham Bends photo gallery >
- Video captured
- 26 May 2009
- Running time
- 6'11"
