A386 road

A386
Route information
Length	60.1 mi (96.7 km)
Major junctions
South end	Plymouth 50.3758°N 4.1431°W / 50.3758; -4.1431 (A386 road (southern end))
Major intersections	A374 A38 A390 A30 A3079 A3072 A3124 A388 A39
North end	Appledore 51.0521°N 4.1908°W / 51.0521; -4.1908 (A386 road (northern end))
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Primary destinations	Tavistock Okehampton Bideford
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones

The A386 is a primary route in Devon, England. It runs from Plymouth on the south coast to Appledore on the north coast.

The road starts in the centre of Plymouth, and forms Tavistock Road, the main route out of the city to the north. It crosses a section of Dartmoor to Yelverton and Tavistock. The A386 then heads northeast across the western fringe of Dartmoor past the village of Lydford to the A30 west of Okehampton. It passes to the west of Okehampton to reach Hatherleigh, where the road joins the valley of the River Torridge. It follows the valley to, Meeth, Merton, Great Torrington, Bideford and finally Appledore.

History

The route is little changed from its original alignment in 1922. It originally ended at Bideford, and was extended north first to Northam and then to Appledore on the former route of the B3236. The route originally went through the town of Okehampton. In about 1971, it was realigned to its present route on the former route of the B3219. In the north of Plymouth, the road was rebuilt in the 1970s to bypass the village of Crownhill.

References

• SABRE page on the A386

External links

Media related to A386 road (England) at Wikimedia Commons