Barton Highway
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Barton Highway New South Wales–Australian Capital Territory |
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| Type | Highway |
| Length | 52 km (32 mi) |
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| North end |
 Hume Highway,Yass, New South Wales |
| for full list see major intersections | |
| South end |
 Federal Highway, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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| Major settlements | Murrumbateman |
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National Highway 25The Barton Highway is a short highway in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
The Barton Highway connects Canberra to the Hume Highway at Yass, and it is part of the route from Melbourne to Canberra and is named in honour of Sir Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister of Australia.
Proclaimed a state highway in 1935, it was officially named as the Barton Highway in August 1954, signposted as National Route 25 two years later, fully sealed by 1960, and granted national highway status in 1974. The original purpose of the Yass-Canberra Road was to connect surrounding towns with the newly established national capital. Prior to the highway's establishment a series of trunk routes connected farming locations in the Yass Valley.
Heading east from Yass, the Barton Highway originally commenced at a junction on the Hume Highway, near the historic Cooma Cottage, and east of the Yass River. Requiring traffic to make a right–hand turn across a single lane of the Hume Highway, the highway commenced at this point and tracked generally south by southeast, through undulating hills to the village of Murrumbateman and entering the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), going through the village and main street of Hall, and meeting the Federal Highway at Lyneham at a junction near Sullivans Creek on Mouat Street, adjacent to Lyneham High School and to the south of the Highway's current alignment.
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