Fears that the village will be cut in half,

with the linking up of the new Barnstaple by-pass road at Venn Cross along Anstey Way, are being expressed by residents of Instow.

They say that they are already having trouble in negotiating the road since the introduction of the 40mph speed limit, and the increasing number of heavy industrial vehicles using the road.

Instow Parish Council is to protest to the Ministry of the Environment, and ask that an alternative route, on the line of the old Barnstaple-Bideford road, should be considered.

Gazette article dated 26 January 1973