Newmarket to Gloucester - What the roads like?

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Need to go to Gloucester tomorrow (Sunday) - so what are the roads like?

Going on A14, then onto A428, A1 and A421 to Milton Keynes.
(I understand from friends in Milton Keynes that that area is okay).

Then I'm eventually making my way through Aynho (how are the roads there) and then onto Deddington. Following on roads through to Chipping Norton. On A44, turning onto A436 and onto Stow on the Wold. I'm then aiming for Bourton.

So, if you live anywhere along this route - can you tell me what the roads are like. I really do need to go, but if it's so bad, I'm not taking the risk of driving there.

If you could let me know asap - I would be very grateful. Thanks.
 
Back roads around Northamptonshire/north bucks etc were very bad yesterday and after the freeze last night are now very slippery. Heavy snow forecast tonight (but there has been none today and it was very sunny. Most of the larger roads are fairly good (so from MK to Aynho shouldnt be too bad) - Buckingham was ok yesterday.
I would think as long as you stick to mainroads and leave extra time for your journey (and depending on there being no snow tonight!) you should be ok.
 
I'm in Evesham.....what's snow?
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The A14 was shut earlier today
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It took me the best part of an hour to get to my horses who are only 7 1/2 miles away, purely because I need to cross a fly over of the A14 to get there, not even use the road. I would check the roads tomorrow, but round here (Cambridge), the roads are dire
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My Dad has driven from Brackley, Northamptonshire to here (we went for dinner at the White Pheasant at Fordham!) and back tonight and he said it was ok and he has a rear wheel drive car, A roads are ok, just take it steady! Took him 2 hours to get here which is normal, that was A43/A45/A14.
 
Thanks to you all (and I must admit, I would have preferred to use the M6 route but regulars who do the journey gave us this route as easier to get to) but it didn't matter in the end, because we couldn't even get out of our drive onto the road - it's just like an ice-rink out there. By tea-time last night, the temperature was dropping dramatically and then we got yet more snow so everything is just ice now. The horses haven't been out of their stables since Wednesday because we're not risking them slipping over on way out to paddock, and that's even with us mucking out and putting all the muck on the concrete yard outside their doors.

A real shame, because we've waited months for this visit and was so looking forward to it.

Well, better get out there again and muck out - had to get a hammer and un-freeze the stable door bolts this morning for breakfast. The only ones enjoying this weather on our yard, are our yard dogs.

Weather must be bad, because needed to book a taxi for a 7 mile journey into Newmarket tonight just before mid-night and the first three taxi firms I rang, said there weren't going out in this weather!

Thanks anyway to everyone who responded.
 
It is a pity you didn't get to go, but probably a good move. The A14 was horrible yesterday, and Suffolk county council would appear to have forgotten that they should grit the roads.
 
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