§ LORD KENNETasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the list of 94 historic towns circulated in the OFFICIAL REPORT. column 582, December 2, by Lord Sandford, in which ten towns occur twice, can safely be equated with the list of 84 towns mentioned by him at columns 575–6.
§ LORD SANDFORDI regret that the list of towns printed in the OFFICIAL REPORT on December 2 (col. 582) contained in error some duplication of names. Eighty-four towns, which are on trunk roads and appear on the Council of British Archæology's list of historic towns, should be relieved of trunk road through traffic by the early 1980's. Of these, 16 towns already benefit from schemes which provide relief from trunk road through traffic
Carlisle, Durham, Faversham, Kendal, Lancaster, Ledbury, Market Harborough, Marlborough, Morpeth, Nottingham, Oxford, Painswick, Penrith, St. Albans, Tewkesbury, Worcester.59WA Sixty-eight towns will benefit from road schemes to be completed by the early 1980's:Abingdon, Appleby, Arundel, Ashbourne, Ashby de la Zouch, Barnstaple, Bath, Belper, Beverley, Bideford, Boston, Brampton, Bridgewater, Bridport, Bury St. Edmunds, Buxton, Cambridge. Canterbury, Castle Donington, Cheltenham, Chester, Cirencester, Colchester, Cockermouth, Dorchester (Dorset), Dorchesteron-Thames, East Dereham, Ely, Evesham, Exeter, Gloucester, Godmanchester, Henley-on-Thames, Hereford, Hexham, Huntingdon, King's Lynn, Launceston, Leominster, Lewes, Lichfield, Ludlow, Newark on Trent, Newport (Essex), Newport (Salop), Northampton, Peterborough, Rochester, Ross-on-Wye, St. Neots, Shrewsbury, Skipton, Southampton, Spalding, Stamford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swaffham, Tamworth, Tarporley, Taunton, Thetford, Thirsk, Ware, Wimbourne, Winchester, Witney, Wymondham, York.