A363 road (Great Britain)
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| North end: | Bathford |
 A4 road A361 road A366 road A350 road
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| South end: | Yarnbrook |
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The A363 is a main road in the United Kingdom, which runs through Bath and North East Somerset and Wiltshire. It provides a link between the small market towns of West Wiltshire and Bath, the M4 westbound, and the M5. It runs from the A4 at Bathford to the A350 at Yarnbrook, running through Bradford-on-Avon and Trowbridge on the way. It also links Westbury by merging with the A350.
The road starts off bypassing Bathford to the west. It then climbs up the hill known locally as Sally in the Woods, on the edge of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which has been the scene of a fatal accident.
The road summits at the turn-off to Monkton Farleigh, at an altitude of 144 metres. After this, the road quality improves in that it widens and is straighter. This continues up to the approach to Bradford-on-Avon. Through Bradford-on-Avon itself, the road descends a steep 1 in 7 (14%) hill, known as Masons Lane. This is the road's main bottleneck since this leads to Bradford-on-Avon's one and only vehicle bridge over the River Avon (which splits the town in two), and at this stage travelers have merged with traffic from Melksham, Corsham and Chippenham (B3109) which is fed here.
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