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The A49 is a major Road in England . It runs north from Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire via Hereford , Leominster , Ludlow , Craven Arms , Church Stretton , Bypass es Shrewsbury and Whitchurch , then continues through central Cheshire to Warrington , Newton-le-Willows , Ashton-in-Makerfield , Wigan and Standish before finally terminating at its junction with the A6 Road just south of Bamber Bridge , near the junction of the M6 , M65 and M61 Motorway s. The route takes it through the Welsh Marches region. The road has a history of head-on collisions as it carries a lot of north-south traffic through Herefordshire and Shropshire with little chance for safe overtaking. A significant percentage of these accidents result in death. The road meets with the from a roundabout. From junction 9 of the . The road has crossroads with the B5356 and meets the A559 at junction 10 of the M56 . The road enters Cheshire . There is crossroads with the A533 and the road crosses the Cheshire Ring Canal Walk and Trent & Mersey Canal before crossing the Acton Bridge swing bridge over the Weaver Navigation . The three-mile £6m and under the Welsh Marches Line railway (to and is crossed by the South Cheshire Way . The Whitchurch bypass begins with a roundabout with the B5476, the old route through the town. The three-mile £13.7m and under the railway and multiplexes with the A5 at a roundabout. Shrewsbury was bypassed when the £64m east-west A5 bypass was built in August 1992. The route leaves the A5 at a junction on the south of the bypass, with the A5112 heading into Shrewsbury. It goes through , one of only a few on trunk roads in England. At Bromfield , the road meets the A4113, and crosses the River Onny . Near the B4365 junction the road is crossed by the Shropshire Way. The three-mile £4m Ludlow Bypass opened in the summer of 1979. The bypass passes over then under the railway, then over the transmitter for Radio Hereford And Worcester . The road enters Herefordshire . The one-mile £1.4m Brimfield Bypass opened in March 1983. The four-mile £9m Leominster Bypass opened in November 1988. There are plans for a nine-mile dual-carriageway Hereford bypass. EXTERNAL LINKS
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