A25 road

A25 road

Major junctions
West end:	Guildford, Surrey
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East end:	Wrotham Heath, Kent
Location
Primary destinations:	Sevenoaks Reigate Dorking
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones

The A25 road is one of the two cross-sector non-motorway grade roads in the 2 sector (or Zone 2) of Great Britain alongside the A27 which is approximately double its length along the south coast. It carries traffic from Guildford in Surrey eastward through Dorking along the southern edge of the North Downs, i.e. the Vale of Holmesdale, between that range and the Greensand Ridge to reach mid-west Kent. En route, the road passes through Reigate, Redhill, Nutfield, Bletchingley, Godstone, Oxted, Westerham, Brasted, Sevenoaks and Borough Green. It passes over six of the seven rivers which drain the vale and land to the south, in separate catchments. A short distance beyond Borough Green, at Wrotham Heath, Platt, Kent the A25 ends at a junction with the A20, which continues eastward towards Maidstone. It for a short distance continues beyond the traditional Portsmouth Road which has since been replaced by a bypass which the road does not reach, and thus extends into Zone 3.

Route

See also: Vale of Holmesdale

The east of the route the Victoria County History describes as a main road in 1911.^[1] Relatively briefly the modern road uses bypasses and straightened cuts. Many of the inns along its path were one time staging inns. One of the earliest sections of the M25 motorway runs parallel and to the north of the A25: hence the London Orbital Road was numbered M25.

As such, most of the route is a single carriageway and a very small minority of it is a dual carriageway:: the junctions at Guildfold and Redhill.

Its route is 1 mile (1.6 km) or less at all points south of the North Downs which has the Pilgrims' Way (here also known as the North Downs Way) and roughly follows an ancient trackway, which was longer and stretched to Salisbury, Wiltshire, the Harrow Way. The range is an intermittently broken by river valleys, variable width escarpment with a steep southern slope, often quarried away into vertical faces, it includes Botley Hill and Box Hill and this ridge is one of the two mentioned ranges of hills which form in the western half the Surrey Hills AONB.^[2]

The route has been included in the London-Surrey Cycle Classic alongside the entrances to Hatchlands Park and Clandon Park in Surrey. The east of the county has Reigate Castle along its route. Combe Bank Landscaped Grounds and Squerryes Court are along the route in west Kent, bringing the total of listed English gardens along the route to four.

References

↑ H.E. Malden (editor) (1912). "Parishes: Limpsfield". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
↑ Natural England - Geodiversity

A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain road numbering scheme

	A2 A20 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25 A26 A27 A28 A29

	A200 A201 A202 A203 A205 A206 A209 A210 A212 A213 A214 A215 A217 A219 A222 A225 A226 A227 A228 A229 A230 A232 A234 A235 A236 A237 A240 A249 A250 A253 A254 A256 A258 A259 A264 A271 A272 A274 A278 A281 A282 A286 A299

	A2020 A2022 A2030 A2043 A2100 A2199 A2204 A2212 A2216 A2217

List of A roads in Zone 2 List of B roads in Zone 2

Coordinates: 51°15′04″N 0°03′37″W / 51.25102°N 0.0603°W / 51.25102; -0.0603

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