A308 | |
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The A308 at Hampton, beside the district's water works.
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Route information | |
Length: | 33.75 mi (54.32 km) |
Major junctions | |
East end: | Brompton |
A4 road A3220 road A217 road A219 road A3 road A238 road A2043 road A307 road A310 road A309 road A311 road A316 road M3 motorway A244 road A30 road A3044 road A320 road M25 motorway A328 road A332 road A355 road A330 road M4 motorway A4 road A404 road |
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West end: | Bisham |
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Primary destinations: |
Kingston upon Thames, Staines-upon-Thames, Maidenhead |
Road network | |
The A308, is a road in England in two parts. The road has four principal axes to stay no more than 3 miles (4.8 km) from the River Thames to run from Central London upstream to Bisham, Berkshire which faces the town of Marlow across the river, explaining its four main orientations. The road is dualled each way in the section furthest from the River Thames, in north Surrey and forms one of the motorway spurs to the large town of Maidenhead.
The South Kensington to Fulham section starts at the A4 road opposite Brompton Oratory and follows Fulham Road south-west past Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where it jumps south a block to takeover the Kings Road.
Through broad Fulham which traditionally, as bolstered by its associated London postcode, covers half of the borough, the road becomes New Kings Road, before it ends at the A219 road (Fulham Palace Road), 100m north of Putney Bridge.
Having skipped over the 2 miles (3.2 km) rise bisecting Putney and 2 miles of Putney Heath, which are the A219 road and A3, the road resumes. The long Kingston Vale to Bisham route starts at the Robin Hood Gate roundabout, the only give-way junction of the A3 south-west of Wandsworth and north-east of Greatham, Hampshire. The road is named Kingston Vale and Kingston Hill until it descends past Kingston Hospital, where it becomes London Road. Immediately after snaking through central Kingston upon Thames, the road crosses the River Thames at Kingston Bridge where it has another roundabout.