A605 road
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The A605 road is a main road in the English counties of Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire.
[edit] Route (west to east)
The A605 strikes north from junction 13 of the trunk A14 road through the eastern parts of Thrapston, skirts the village of Thorpe Waterville, bypasses Oundle to its east, crosses the River Nene, reaches the eastern limit of the A427 at a roundabout, skirts to the west of Eaglethorpe, crosses into Cambridgeshire near Elton Hall, to reach the A1(M)'s junction 17 whereupon it becomes the Peterborough bypass, the A1139.
Its total length is fractionally under 14½ miles.
[edit] Trivia
At no point in its short route does the A605 meet another A-road with a 6-series number. This apparent isolation is the result of it being truncated at its southern end. It used to leave the A6 road at a junction north of Higham Ferrers but this stretch has been renumbered as the A45 road that terminates at the same A14 junction as the A605 now starts from. It is a matter of speculation why the whole of the A605 was not similarly renumbered. It has also been truncated at its northern end as it formerly ran into the centre of Peterborough.
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A roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain road numbering scheme |
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| A6 | A60 - A61 - A62 - A63 - A64 - A65 - A66 - A67 - A68 - A69 | |
| A602 - A605 - A614 - A625 - A630 - A635 | ||
| A638 - A647 - A666 - A684 - A685 - A686 - A689 - A690 - A696 | ||
| A6030 - A6055 - A6079 - A6108 - A6136 - A6177 - A6182 | ||
| List of A roads in Zone 6 | ||
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