Great North Road
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There are several Great North Roads:
- Great North Road, Australia, a historical road leading from Sydney to the Hunter Valley
- Great North Road, New Zealand, a road in Auckland
- Great North Road, Zambia, a road running north from Lusaka
- Great North Road (Great Britain)Great North Road (Great Britain)The Great North Road was a coaching route used by mail coaches between London, York and Edinburgh. The modern A1 mainly follows the Great North Road. The inns on the road, many of which survive, were staging posts on the coach routes, providing accommodation, stabling for the horses and...
, an historical coaching route partly used by the A1 road in the United Kingdom - Cape to Cairo RoadCape to Cairo RoadThe Cape to Cairo Road or 'Pan-African Highway', sometimes called the Great North Road in sub-Saharan Africa, was an imperial dream envisioned by the British Empire that would see a road stretch the length of Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo, similar to the Pan-American Highway...
, an historically planned route through Africa - Cariboo RoadCariboo RoadThe Cariboo Road was a project initiated in 1860 by the colonial Governor of British Columbia, James Douglas...
, an historical route in British Columbia, Canada - New Zealand State Highway 1, a road near Kamo in New Zealand