H10 Bletcham Way
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The H10 Bletcham Way is a major local road in Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes , sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes...

, Buckinghamshire. Its formal name is simply "Bletcham Way": the "H10" designation is an urban planning name that indicates that it is the tenth east-west grid road in the Milton Keynes grid road system.

Bletcham Way starts as a dual carriageway
Dual carriageway
A dual carriageway is a class of highway with two carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation...

 at the three-way Granby Roundabout with the V6 Grafton Street
V6 Grafton Street
The V6 Grafton Street is a major local road in Milton Keynes. Its formal name is simply "Grafton Street": the "V6" designation is an urban planning name that indicates that it is the sixth north-south grid road in the Milton Keynes grid road system....

 and V4 Watling Street
Watling Street
Watling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Britons mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans. The Romans later paved the route, part of which is identified on the Antonine Itinerary as Iter III: "Item a Londinio ad...

 at Denbigh. A short distance after this point it reduces to single carriageway as it passes the industrial estates of Mount Farm and Fenny Lock. At the end of this one-kilometre stretch the road crosses the A5 at an unusual bi-graded triple roundabout. From here it reverts to being dual carriageway and takes on the designation of A4146
A4146 road
The A4146 is an A-class road running through south-central England from M1 Junction 14 at Milton Keynes, around Linslade and Leighton Buzzard , and via Dagnall to Hemel Hempstead, where it terminates at a roundabout with the A4251.In Milton Keynes, the road briefly follows the H6 Childs Way from...

. It remains like this for two grid stretches before the A4146 turns off onto the V11 Tongwell Street 1. The H10 then continues east, again as a single carriageway for a short distance before finishing as a local distributor in the district of Old Farm Park on the very south eastern edge of Milton Keynes.

Junctions

Due to its nature as a Milton Keynes grid road, Bletcham Way has an unusual number of roundabouts (by the standards of other towns) along its short route. For clarity their names and the roads they cross are listed below from west to east:
Roundabout Name Intersection
Granby Roundabout V4 Watling Street, V6 Grafton Street
V6 Grafton Street
The V6 Grafton Street is a major local road in Milton Keynes. Its formal name is simply "Grafton Street": the "V6" designation is an urban planning name that indicates that it is the sixth north-south grid road in the Milton Keynes grid road system....

Denbigh Roundabout V7 Saxon Street (B4034)
Unnamed double roundabout Bond Avenue
Fenny Lock Roundabout Future V8 Marlborough Street
V8 Marlborough Street
The V8 Marlborough Street is a major local road in Milton Keynes, running for approximately eight miles. Its formal name is simply Marlborough Street; the V8 designation is an urban planning name that indicates that it is the eighth north-south grid road in the Milton Keynes grid road system...

Bletcham Roundabout A5 (northbound access)
Caldecotte Roundabout A5 (southbound access)
Walton Park Roundabout V10 Brickhill Street
Browns Wood Roundabout V11 Tongwell Street (A4146
A4146 road
The A4146 is an A-class road running through south-central England from M1 Junction 14 at Milton Keynes, around Linslade and Leighton Buzzard , and via Dagnall to Hemel Hempstead, where it terminates at a roundabout with the A4251.In Milton Keynes, the road briefly follows the H6 Childs Way from...

)
Wavendon Gate Roundabout Gregories Drive, Britten Grove

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