AARoads:United Kingdom

United Kingdom
Dedicated to the highways and roadways of the United Kingdom

Resources

• general statistics
• London Library - 255 pounds a year, open to all (some subsidized memberships available)
  • British Newspaper Archive
  • The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, and The Observer
• British Library Newspapers - a database that may be available in a few US libraries
• British Newspaper Archive - a database that may be available in a few US libraries, also w:WP:TWL
• https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/ (roadgeek site) - provides a different perspective
• https://www.roads.org.uk/ (roadgeek site)
  • https://www.roads.org.uk/roadsfaq
• National Highways

England

• Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/ - Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s, after 1998 is usually on the web)
• Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ - Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s, often a library database)
• London Times (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/, available through various databases - Newspapers.com to 1921, w:WP:TWL)
• Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk, Newspapers.com - recent only, PE)
• https://www.bbc.com/
• https://news.sky.com/

• Highways England map

Scotland

• Glasgow Herald to 1990 - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC
• https://www.heraldscotland.com/
• Scotland Transport
• Trunk roads list
• The Scotsman - part of British Newspaper Archives

Wales

• Western Mail is on Newspapers.com to 1959 - Publishers Extra after 1920s; also British Newspaper Archives
• https://newspapers.library.wales/home - general cutoff is 1910

Northern Ireland

• Belfast Telegraph https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/archive (unclear if there is a search)
• Irish News Archives - not free, might be available in a few libraries in the US

• http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/roads/indexcurrent.html

Anguilla

• Ministry

Barbados

• https://www.barbadosadvocate.com/
• https://www.nationnews.com/
• https://barbadostoday.bb/
• https://barbados.loopnews.com/
• Barbadian archives 1822-1861 - British Newspaper Archive but free with registration - some other Barbados papers of the same era too
• https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1086/search Barbados Mercury from before 1848

• Ministry
• Planning

Bermuda

• https://www.royalgazette.com/
• Ministry

British Indian Ocean Territory

Note: going away soon

• Government

British Virgin Islands

• https://www.bvibeacon.com/
• Island Sun

• Ministry
• Gazette

Cayman Islands

• https://www.caymancompass.com/
• Cayman Roads
• lengthy transportation plan document
• eminent domain

Falkland Islands

• https://penguin-news.com/
• legislation

Gibraltar

• https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/press
• http://www.chronicle.gi/
• http://www.gibraltarpanorama.gi/

Guernsey

• https://guernseypress.com/ - only paper
• ministry - has the informal hierarchy - but there is no formal numbering system

Isle of Man

• https://www.imuseum.im/newspapers/ - goes to 1960
• Isle of Man Weekly Times - to 1900 on Newspapers.com
• https://www.iomtoday.co.im/

Jersey

• https://jerseyeveningpost.com/

Montserrat

• https://www.themontserratreporter.com/
• Infrastructure

Pitcairn Islands

• https://puc.libguides.com/PISC-news

Turks and Caicos

• https://tcweeklynews.com/

• Ministry