Best towing route to Cornwall from Brighton?
Can anyone advise the best route for towing a caravan from Brighton to Tintagel? Green Flag suggest the southern route A35 via Dorchester which does not have such good roads as the M3 / A303 via Wincanton to Exeter, but I understand the traffic around
Stonehenge is often extremely heavy. Your advice would be appreciated.
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The traffic on the A35 can also be heavy and if the road is closed you have one awful detour. Personally, I'd use the A303 etc.
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Try using Google maps with the traffic option turned on. Last night it was showing the southern route as being quicker, this morning the A303 is the quicker route.
Google use information from mobile phones in use to calculate average speeds on each route and it will tell you where trouble spots are with great accuracy.
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I've just had a quick look at the RAC route planner. The duration(ignoring traffic considerations) is identical but the southern route is 30 miles shorter. The possibility of holdups is, IMHO, equal on either route.
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The A35 via Dorchester has some evil bits and is best avoided. I would take the M27 around the North side of Southampton and then the A 36 via Salisbury up to the A 303 . This avoids Stonehenge. At Ilminster take the A358 to join the M5 near Taunton rather than continuing over the Blackdown hills to Honiton.
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The A35 via Dorchester has some evil bits and is best avoided. I would take the M27 around the North side of Southampton and then the A 36 via Salisbury up to the A 303 . This avoids Stonehenge. At Ilminster take the A358 to join the M5 near Taunton rather
than continuing over the Blackdown hills to Honiton.When are you going? If a Saturday daytime the A27/M27/A36 avoids Stonehenge, unless you know the 2 alternative ways around that both involve narrow lanes and villages
The Blackdown Hills are easy, mostly a 50mph limit so you won't be causing a tailback. The M5 near Taunton is a traffic jam on peak weekends.
Assume you are going to Trewethett Farm Caravan Club Site, in which case follow the destructions in the handbook in case you miss the hand painted signs in the fields telling you not to use some roads.
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Thanks for your advice everyone. Like your idea Olliedays regarding using Google for current information except we have to book a site beforehand to split the journey so cannot do this.
When we went to Trewethett Farm Caravan Club Site last summer we split the journey by overnighting at Exeter Racecourse CC site, after encountering a delay of 1hr at Stonehenge and floods on the A30 at Honiton. That worked out well.
At Easter we stopped for 2 nights at Cheddar CC site enroute to Croyde.
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As you first posted three weeks ago, this might be a bit late. I have done a similar trip many times with and without the caravan.
Take the M5 to Taunton. (Do NOT join the A303 at Exeter!) Turn off at junction 25 onto the A358 and join the A303. Leave the A303 to join the A36 towards Salisbury. When you reach Salisbury stay with the A36 which is signed for Southampton
and the M27. Follow the M27 and A27 to Brighton.Chichester can be a bit of a pain sometimes but nothing like Stonehenge etc.
I hope this isn't too late to help.
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Wasn't the requested route the other way around ?
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Does that really matter?
I think the road runs in both directions. Anyway, the OP can always do it in reverse.
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