A51 road

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A51 road
Direction	South-North
Start	Kingsbury, Warwickshire
Primary destinations1	Tamworth Litchfield Stone Nantwich
End	Chester
Roads joined	A56 road A5268 road A41 road A55 road A54 road A49 road A534 road A500 road A525 road A53 road A34 road A518 road A513 road A469 road A5192 road A5 road
Notes Primary destinations as specified by the Department for Transport.

The A51 is a road in England running from Kingsbury in Warwickshire (just east of Birmingham) to Chester. The road follows the following route:

• Kingsbury
• Tamworth
• Lichfield
• Rugeley (bypass opened 2007 [1])
• Little Haywood
• Great Haywood
• Weston
• Sandon
• Stone (merges briefly with A34)
• Woore
• Nantwich
• Tarporley (merges briefly with A49)
• Tarvin
• Chester

The A51 is used by some long-distance traffic as an alternative to the M6 motorway, which is prone to congestion through Birmingham. The M6 Toll motorway a few miles to the south now serves a similar function.

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