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Wed 9 Mar 11 18:14

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Hard Cheese

To be there by 11:30am, any suggestions?

I guess M25, M11, A10 to Kings Lynn.

Thanks.

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Wed 9 Mar 11 18:18

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Pat

M25, M1 J13, A421 (all dual carriageway now) A1 and A47 much better.

Breakfast at the cafe just before Guyhirn:)

Pat

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Wed 9 Mar 11 18:27

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Zero

Do this journey a lot, (except sometimes its on to brancaster 5 miles round the coast)

As the trucker says, except the cafe at Guyhirn!, go to the white horse at Brancaster for mussles.

DO NOT get trapped in the contraflow outside lane roadworks on M1 northbound, it has no exit to J13.

Its 2 hours to A1 / A47 junction, and about 50 minutes to Hunstanton on the A47

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Wed 9 Mar 11 18:31

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Pat

9am full breakfast at Guyhirn, 13.00 mussels at Brancaster...sorted:)

Pat

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Wed 9 Mar 11 18:59

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Old Navy

>> 9am full breakfast at Guyhirn,>>

Is that where we had lunch, Pat?

Calm down there was at least a dozen of us!

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Wed 9 Mar 11 20:05

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Dave_

I agree with the above route, the A421 is finally the road it always should have been.

Also I would go around the south side of Peterborough on the A1139 from the A1 to the A47 - there's a dedicated slip road so you don't even have to drop out of top gear.

This will be a journey which shows where all the investment in new roads over the past few years has been going :)

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Wed 9 Mar 11 20:39

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - bathtub tom

Why would anyone want to go to Hunstanton?

In-laws had a bungalow, so many holidays were spent there when I was impoverished by the kids.

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Wed 9 Mar 11 22:55

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Hard Cheese

Thanks all, Hunstanton to Somerset on the way back, 240 miles I reckon!

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Thu 10 Mar 11 03:59

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Pat

That's the one ON, they have built a good reputation for breakfast.

Pat

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Thu 10 Mar 11 14:52

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Boxsterboy

20-odd years ago I used to drive from North London to Hunstanton quite regularly (girl-friend!). Used to go up A1 to Peterborough, then A47 to Kings Lynn, then A149 up to the coast. I would have thought Cheddar might be better sticking on the M25, and then up the A1?

I s'pose the roads may have changed a lot since then.

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Thu 10 Mar 11 16:34

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Mapmaker

What an interesting route, Pat. How long has the 421 been open?

I'd have a temptation to avoid Peterborough, come off the A1 a bit early, head north up the old north road (you'll be the only car on it) Holme/Ramsey St Mary's/Whittlesea.

Maybe it's just paranoia...

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Thu 10 Mar 11 16:39

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Pat

I think it's almost a year now since the A421 opened and it's provided an excellent link between the A1 & M1.It was just in time to avoid the Hatfield tunnel roadworks too.

Good route across Holme Fen but it needs good suspension:)

If you send him much closer to home I shall have to invite him for coffee!

Pat

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Thu 10 Mar 11 16:55

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Fenlander

>>> Holme/Ramsey St Mary's/Whittlesea.

That's a local road for local people... stay away or we'll nick your alloys if you slow down!

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Fri 11 Mar 11 12:56

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Mapmaker

>>stay away or we'll nick your alloys

I was going to lie in wait and get the whole car...

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Thu 10 Mar 11 17:19

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Dave_

It only fully opened on 5th December 2010:

www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?t=4638&v=f

www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/New-A421-opens-a-month-before-schedule.htm

I regularly travel between Bedford and Leicestershire. The new A421 is a brilliant road for me, while it was being built I used the A14 from Catthorpe to Kettering then the A6 through Rushden but I doubt I'll ever go that way again.

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Thu 10 Mar 11 21:15

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Hard Cheese

OK, I did the M25, M1, A421, A1, A1139, A47 and A149, delays on the M25 meant it took 3.5 hours though I was in time.

I saw thew cafe just before Guyhirn, called Chill-Out IIRC though the most notable thing about Guyhirn id the Kiss Kiss Lingerie err, I guess shop, next to the Shell station, it seems totaly out of place.

On the way back I did A149, A47, A1139, A605, A14, M6, M42, M5 - 245 miles in 4.5 hours.

11 hours from Weybridge to home of which time I was on the road for 8 hours.

Thanks all.

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Thu 10 Mar 11 21:24

Weybridge to Hunstanton, best route? - Zero

>> I saw thew cafe just before Guyhirn, called Chill-Out IIRC though the most notable thing
>> about Guyhirn id the Kiss Kiss Lingerie err, I guess shop, next to the Shell
>> station, it seems totaly out of place.

Yeah, all the truckers at Brets get their gear there...

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