A1

On the route of the old Great North Road, it was bypassed by the modern A1 in the 1970s, and residents thought they had seen the back of congestion.

The A1 blocks up and lorries cannot get back on.

As India's KL Rahul celebrated his century, one that threatened to take the first Test away from England at Headingley and add to their bowlers' toil, a glimmer was offered 90 miles up the A1.

On 24 June, it will start a run of performances of Twelfth Night at its new home of Buckden Towers, a few miles down the A1 in Buckden.

Overdashing New York Times writers were publicly rebuked by standards editor Philip B. Corbett in a 2011 post on the outlet’s blog that clocked a single-day total of 16 dashes on A1 alone.