A689 road

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A689 road
Direction	West to East
Start	Carlisle
End	Hartlepool
Roads joined	M6 motorway A69 road A686 road A68 road A6072 road A688 road A167 road A1(M) motorway A177 road A19 road A1185 road A178 road

The A689 is a road in northern England, that runs east from Junction 44 of the M6 motorway, a few miles north of Carlisle in Cumbria, to Hartlepool, in the North East.

From Junction 44 of the M6, the A689 runs roughly south-east to a roundabout, with the B6264. From here, the A689 heads east, and meets the A69 at a roundabout junction. The A689 joins the route of the A69 around part of the Brampton bypass. Near the village of Milton, the A689 turns right, and continues through Milton and Hallbankgate before crossing the border into the county of Northumberland.

The route continues roughly south-east, and re-enters the county of Cumbria just north of small market town of Alston. After passing through Alston, the A689 eventually crosses the border into County Durham, where the route still heads gradually south-east through Weardale. Between Killhope and Nenthead the road reaches a height of 2,056 ft, making it the highest A road in England.

At a roundabout with the A68, the A689 briefly joins the route of the A690, before turning right in the town of Crook(for a few years has bypassed Crook town center and now uses a new bypass). Heading south-easterly still, the A689 encounters the town of Bishop Auckland, where it temporarily heads north-easterly (where it merges with the A688), before setting off in an easterly direction north of Bishop Auckland.

The A689 meets the A167 at the Rushyford roundabout, then shortly comes across the A1(M) at Junction 60. The A689 by-passes the town of Sedgefield, and becomes dual carriageway standard for the remainder of the route, after the section between Sedgefield and Wynyard was recently upgraded to dual carriageway ^[1]. The A689 meets the A19 near Wolviston, before turning north-east and eventually terminating close to the centre of Hartlepool.

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• A689 Carlisle-Hartlepool - from SABRE's "Roads By 10".

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