List of unused roads in the United Kingdom

An unused road is a road or slip road that was partially or fully constructed but was unused or later closed. An unused road can be referred to as a stub ramp, stub street, stub-out, The following is a short list of some locations within the United Kingdom:
England
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*In Crowthorne, Berkshire, South Road used to be a shortcut from Broadmoor Hospital to Sandhurst. It is now used as foot/cycle path, however the road markings and speed bumps are still there. It was closed as it made traffic around Broadmoor worse, as well as the speed bumps being too big.
*Nearby Ipswich, The old A12, which was closed when the A14 opened, runs between Junction 32B of the current A12 and Washbrook. The open segment is 1.9 miles long and the rest of it only open for pedestrians. From Washbrook, the closed part runs under the A14 and to the A1214, which also used to be part of the M12. The road is now labelled as the C475
*In South Yorkshire the western end of the M180 from M18 junction 5 to the junction 1 eastbound slip road was previously part of the . The eastbound slip road to the roundabout was the eastbound carriageway of the old A18(M). About 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of the westbound A18(M) carriageway was abandoned when the M180 was built on a new alignment.
*In Manchester, the has an unfinished slip road that hangs in the air. It is hidden from view from the road. It was intended to join a dual carriageway into the city centre.
*In London, the M11 motorway has two short unused slips at Junction 4 (Charlie Brown's) which would have been a link for the M12 motorway to head east into Essex. The M12 was in fact never built.
*Newcastle has two ramp stubs on the northbound Central Motorway East (originally , now ), links from a proposed Central Motorway East By-pass (A third northbound link was opened as the local access from Camden Street).
*In Surrey, the M23 begins with junction seven and has an unfinished stub that was intended to extend the M23 further into London.
*On many early rural motorways, unfinished stubs can be found at locations proposed for motorway service areas. Sites for services were designated at regular intervals, about 12 or 13 miles apart, and the unfinished stubs built as part of the original motorway construction. Land adjacent to the motorway was often obtained for the future services - usually a neat circular or hexagonal plot that is easily identified on aerial photos. While many of these original sites were opened as service areas, those remaining unused are now unlikely ever to be developed, either because the sites are too small and restricted, or because they are in the wrong place: Doncaster North services recently opened less than 2 miles from the ramp stubs at Hatfield.
*Improvement works in 1987 rerouted the A47 in Rutland near Wardley resulting in an unused stretch of carriageway being left behind which functions as access to a transmitting station and parking layby.
*The former line of the A33 Winchester Bypass remains very clear on the ground after having been replaced by the M3 motorway through Twyford Down.
*In 1979, after continued efforts at maintenance, the A625 road on the south side of Mam Tor, Derbyshire, was closed due to the instability of the shale layers. The road lies abandoned and crumbling.
*A5227, Borough Road, Birkenhead has a bridge to nowhere (to Conway Street) built in 1969 but was partly demolished.
Scotland
*Glasgow's M8 motorway has several ramp stubs built for the abandoned Inner Ring Road. The most famous examples are the West Street ramps at Junction 20 (Kingston), and another pair can be found at Junction 15 (Townhead). There are also ramp stubs on the westbound M8 between junctions 16 and 17, for an unbuilt motorway leading out to the north and west.
*The A75 has been upgraded in many areas since the 1960s. Many areas of the old road are still intact, but with road marks fading and grassed over tarmac.
*The A74 used to be the main north to south route from Carlisle to Glasgow. When the A74(M) and M74 was opened, large parts of the old road were downgraded to B-road standard and converted from dual carriageway to single carriageway although some sections of the B7078 remain dualled.

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