The route of the motorway link road to North Devon has not yet been decided

Northam Chamber of Commerce have been told by the Department of the Environment that a number of lines for the link road are being examined but that ‘considerable investigation and survey work remains to be carried out’ before draft orders can be published.

It was impossible to give a time schedule for the proposed link road, apart from saying that the draft orders were unlikely to be published until the middle or late 1970s.

But copies of the order would in due course be sent to the Chamber the Department promised.

Gazette article dated 14 February 1972