A475 road is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.0878°, -4.2624°.

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A475 road

Also known as: Ffordd yr A475

A475 road in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

Old Milestone by the A475, north east of Rhydowen - geograph.org.uk - 6102815 — Milestone Society — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

A475 road is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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The A475 road in Wales links Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire with Lampeter in Ceredigion; a distance of 19 miles (31 km).

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Background

History

The road, that is now known as the A475, was set up in 1770 as a turnpike by the Cardiganshire Turnpike Trust. Many milestones can still be seen between the position of the turnpike gates at Lampeter and at Adpar. Both were wrecked during the Rebecca Riots. In 1923, "A475" was designated to the road from Swansea to Carmarthen. In 1935, this road was renumbered and the designation was given to the LampeterNewcastle Emlyn route. On 11 September 2001, a council lorry collided with a school bus near the Horeb crossroads. A number of children and three adults were treated for shock and minor injury, but no one was seriously injured. In the same year a young couple died when their car left the…

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