A329 road

A329 road
Major junctions
East end:	Wentworth, near Virginia Water 51°24′23″N 0°35′47″W / 51.4065°N 0.5965°W / 51.4065; -0.5965 (A329 road (southeastern end))
	A30 road A330 road A232 road A322 road A329(M) motorway A4 road A33 road A340 road A417 road [[Image:Motorway Left.svg\|[ \|x30px\|link=]] M40 motorway A40 road A418 road
West end:	Thame 51°44′46″N 0°59′54″W / 51.7461°N 0.9984°W / 51.7461; -0.9984 (A329 road (northwestern end))
Location
Primary destinations:	Bracknell Reading
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones

The A329 is an east-west road in Southern England that runs from Wentworth in Surrey to Thame in Oxfordshire. The A329 starts at the A30 in Surrey and passes through Ascot, Bracknell, Wokingham, Earley, Reading, Purley, Pangbourne, Lower Basildon, Streatley, Moulsford and Wallingford. It connects to junction 7 of the M40 before finally ending at a junction with the A418 at Thame.

The A329 originally (in 1922) terminated at Reading. In the 1930s it was extended to Shillingford on part of the route of the former A42. After the M40 motorway was opened in the 1970s it was extended to Thame on the former route of the B4013. In 1993, when the new Winterbrook Bridge enabled traffic to by-pass Wallingford, the section between Wallingford and Shillingford was downgraded to become an unclassified road.

Most of the road is single carriageway, apart from the section through Bracknell, and in central Reading. In Reading the road is dualled where it forms the Inner Distribution Road. In Bracknell the A329 originally ran along the High Street (now pedestrianised) and continued west along the Wokingham Road (now B3408). Today the original London Road is dualled for a short section approaching the Met Office Roundabout. The dual carriageway then by-passes north of the pedestrianised town centre to the Giroscope Roundabout, where it crosses the former route, heading south west to the Twin Bridges roundabout and along the dual Berkshire Way to meet the old route at Amen Corner. Here the A329 continues into Wokingham on the original route, while the A329(M) by-passes to the north.

External links

SABRE information on the A329

A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain road numbering scheme

	A3 A30 A31 A32 A33 A34 A35 A36 A37 A38 A39

	A301 A303 A304 A307 A308 A316 A329 A331 A337 A338 A340 A342 A344 A345 A346 A350 A354 A360 A361 A363 A368 A369 A370 A371 A374 A379 A380 A381 A382 A386 A390

	A3036 A3054 A3055 A3090 A3110 A3203 A3204 A3220 A3400

List of A roads in Zone 3 List of B roads in Zone 3

Coordinates: 51°30′10″N 1°07′12″W / 51.5027°N 1.1200°W / 51.5027; -1.1200 (A329 road)

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