B1354 road

B1354
Approaching Melton Constable on B1354 Briston Road.
Route information
Length:	8.2 mi (13.2 km)
Major junctions
West-north-west end:	A148 Thursford
	A148 B1110 B1149
East-south-east end:	B1149 Saxthorpe
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones

The B1354 runs for about 8.2 miles (13.2 km) between the A148 at Thursford and the B1149 at Saxthorpe, and is entirely within the county of Norfolk. The road is the main route of access to Norwich and to Fakenham for the large villages of Melton Constable and Briston. The road then resurfaces again at the A140 in Hainford and continues to Hoveton ending at a A1151.

The route of this old thoroughfare can be clearly made out on William Faden’s map of Norfolk which was surveyed between 1790 and 1794. This map, the first large-scale map (at one inch to the mile) of the whole county, is a record of the landscape and transport system of the county of Norfolk in the late 18th century, and shows that despite the Parliamentary Enclosure of the early 19th century the route has changed very little. Much of the route on the map is highlighted in a pale pink which marks it out as an important artery of the time. In recent years the roads route has been redirected from its junction with the A148 at Thursford for a distance of 1.7 miles (2.7 km) and now takes the route of the old track bed of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway route between Melton Constable and Fakenham.

The road then resurfaces at the Village of Hainford on the A140. The road continues through the villages of Hainford and Frettenham before reaching a mini roundabout in Horstead. Here the road multiplexes with the B1150 over the Coltishall Bridge into the Village of Coltishall. The road leaves the B1150 at Coltishall Island before continuing past Coltishall Common into the Village of Belaugh before reaching the large village of Hoveton where the road ends at the A1151.