A519 road

A519
Major junctions
From	Newcastle-Under-Lyme
Major intersections	A500 A5182 M6 A51 A41 A518
To	A41 near Newport, Shropshire
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Primary destinations	Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke-on-Trent
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones

The A519 is a road in the Midlands, United Kingdom.

Route

It that runs between Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire and Newport, Shropshire.

At Newport it meets the A518 and A41. It heads broadly north, passing via Eccleshall, junction 15 of the M6 motorway, and then meets the A53 and various other roads in Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre.

The road follows the first part of the route of the medieval road from Shrewsbury to York, which passed through the ancient Forest of Lyme. Prior to Tudor times, this was the only major highway from the West Midlands to the North.