Great North Road
Proper noun
Meaning
Great North Road
(Britain) The A1 (partially the A1(M)) road from London to Edinburgh
Examples
By the way there was no Great North Road so access to interior Zambia was via Malawi and into Eastern Province and beyond even from Dar.
In 1851, the route of the Great North Road (now the A1000) was altered to avoid cutting through the grounds of Hatfield House.
Lekson Ed, U of Utah: 165. In addition, research shows that the Great North Road, a thirty-five mile engineered “road”, was constructed not for utilitarian purposes but rather to connect the ceremonial center of Chaco Canyon with the direction north.
Warwick arrayed his army in a line from east to west, on either side of the Great North Road running through Barnet.sfn Oxford held the right flank and Exeter the left.