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Nork NOSH...classic DG

Scientist | 30.06.22 - 7:50 a.m. | #

The A2022 is the final part of my route to work if the M25 is stuffed. I knew all about the NOSH, but the past two days have added plenty more interest and colour - thank you.

Waterhouse | 30.06.22 - 8:36 a.m. | #

Go on, you can make it down to Hove next year!
I lived very near the A2023 in my 1st year at university in the '70s.

MikeK | 30.06.22 - 9:40 a.m. | #

Oh what a shame the 166 wasn't a 10-minute ride! It would have replicated yesterday's pattern beautifully!!

I thoroughly enjoyed your journey along the 2022. Top DG reportage!

Cornish Cockney | 30.06.22 - 11:12 a.m. | #

The NOSH you passed on the right between the Nork shops and Drift Bridge replaced Beechholme, aka the Kensington and Chelsea District School, founded in 1880 and closed in 1974. It was, for its time, a remarkable institution that gave a home and education to hundreds of children from disadvantaged backgrounds in K&C. Many of its 'graduates' still live in the area.

Peter | 30.06.22 - 11:53 a.m. | #

I visited the Mayfields Lavender fields many years ago with t'wife. There were lots of South East Asian couples having their wedding photos taken amongst the lavender. I think this calls for a BBC4 documentary before that goes to the great lavender field in the sky.

Marmaduke Jinks | 30.06.22 - 12:49 p.m. | #

I grew up on College Road, the upper part of which forms part of the A2022 but I don't think I ever clocked the road number. Nor did I ever really register the name "Nork" - I knew the area as "Drift Bridge". Unfortunately the Drift Bridge itself (where the Epsom Downs railway line crosses the A2022) is on the section skipped. This was apparently once "the longest span single-arch railway bridge in Surrey" according to the branch website.

The 166 does not pass quite all of Epsom College. The playing fields stretch down the lower part of College Road and then the grounds finish with more staff housing. Back on the A2022 the last significant site is the Old Cottage Hospital where Emily Davison died.

Tim Roll-Pickering | 30.06.22 - 3:01 p.m. | #

Great stuff, really enjoyed this post and yesterday. I do think you can make anything interesting!

Jon Combe | 30.06.22 - 6:42 p.m. | #

If anybody else is feeling slow because they didn't make the connection between the road number and the current year number when they read yesterday's post, you are not alone.

Chris | 30.06.22 - 7:35 p.m. | #

Just persuade the authorities to create an A2024 somewhere in London.

Sprout Eater | 30.06.22 - 9:33 p.m. | #

I was about to mention an unusual road in Woolwich but that's the A2204 (and probably a pub quiz answer).

Looking at the online maps the 166 from Epsom to Croydon does cover a little more of the A2022 than the opposite direction. Rather than directly turning right at the big Drift Bridge junction it instead follows the A2022/A240 multiplex past the pub, the Audi showroom and under the bridge before U-Turning at the roundabout where the two A roads separate. This appears to be so that it can serve a bus stop opposite the Audi showroom, probably situated there due to the narrow pavements on the direct route.

Tim Roll-Pickering | 01.07.22 - 1:17 p.m. | #











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