When my mate and I recently called in at the Cosy Dove pub on Hunter's Road in Spital Tongues, we fell upon this strange-looking road sign. It can be found in the middle of the street a little to the east of the pub:
It tells us, of course, that the thoroughfare in question is a C-road, which is quite a rare breed these days. We've all heard of A- and B-roads, but there was once a time when we had C-, D- and even U-roads to contend with, too. These lesser-known classifications of the UK's road numbering system are - or rather were - used primarily by local (and not national) authorities, and were for low-density streets.
There are only a handful of C-roads left, and I'm not sure there are ANY D- and U-roads still in existence. Of the few that are still marked on signage as per above many of them are to be found in and around Newcastle, for some strange reason. Another one (the C-104) runs through Fawdon (aka Kingston Park Road), and the C-137 runs along Queen Victoria Road, Richardson Road and up into Spital Tongues.
There are others, too - check out this website for further info - as well as looking up the individual road numbers here.
As for the above C-116, it apparently runs from some indeterminate point on Claremont Road, along Hunter's Road, Brighton Grove and Bentinck Road, before ending at Elswick Cemetery.
Well I never.
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