Queensway, Gibraltar

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Queensway

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Queensway at the junction with Europort Avenue and Reclamation Road.
Length 1.5 km (0.9 mi)
Location Gibraltar
Coordinates 36°08′27″N5°21′21″W / 36.140894°N 5.355926°W / 36.140894; -5.355926 Coordinates: 36°08′27″N5°21′21″W / 36.140894°N 5.355926°W / 36.140894; -5.355926
Northbound end Glacis Road
Waterport Avenue
Southbound end Ragged Staff Road
Traditional cast iron street sign on the fortification walls. Queensway, Gibraltar.jpg
Traditional cast iron street sign on the fortification walls.
Map of the northern end of the city showing Queensway's route. Gibraltar roads4.png
Map of the northern end of the city showing Queensway's route.

Queensway is a main coastal road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and the only road servicing the oldest leisure marina on The Rock, Queensway Quay. It connects the marina with the industrial park in the southern end of the Gibraltar Harbour.

British Overseas Territories territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom but not part of it

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Gibraltar British Overseas Territory

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Rock of Gibraltar Monolithic limestone promontory located in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar

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Description

Queensway is built on reclaimed land immediately to the west of Line Wall Curtain, Gibraltar's main city wall and runs along most of its length. It was renamed Queensway after a visit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. [1] The road begins in northern Gibraltar at the roundabout with Glacis Road and Waterport Avenue. It begins to the southwest for about 100 metres (330 ft) before heading south-southwest. [2] It passes Europort Avenue and Reclamation Road before passing running parallel to Gibraltar Harbour. Near the dockyard there is a roundabout at Ragged Staff Gates connecting it to Ragged Staff Road. Queensway comes to an end at this roundabout, although a road continues into the industrial park and dockyard. [2]

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Line Wall Curtain

The Line Wall Curtain is a defensive curtain wall that forms part of the fortifications of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Glacis Road

Glacis Road is a road in northern end of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, the southwestern end of which is the junction with the Waterport Roundabout, where Waterport Road and Queensway also intersect. From the roundabout, Glacis Road extends to the northeast. At its mid portion, the road intersects with Bayside Road, at which point it changes course to a southeast direction. Its eastern end intersects with Winston Churchill Avenue. The North District office of the Royal Gibraltar Post Office is located on Glacis Road.

Economy

View of Queensway Quay from the Rock of Gibraltar showing Queensway in the centre of the photograph. Queensway Quay, Gibraltar.JPG
View of Queensway Quay from the Rock of Gibraltar showing Queensway in the centre of the photograph.

Queensway Quay located west of this road takes its name. [3] In the early 1990s, Taylor Woodrow facilitated a £50 million development along Queensway, developing a hotel, apartments and marina complex at the quayside. [4] [5]

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Line Wall Road is a road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is one of the main roads leading into the city centre. It runs immediately east of the Line Wall Curtain in a north-south direction, connecting Smith Dorrien Avenue near Grand Casemates Square with the southern end of Main Street at Southport Gates. It runs parallel with Queensway through much of its length at an elevated level. Part of the western defensive wall has been excavated along Line Wall Road.

References

  1. ↑ City walls..., visitgibraltar.gi, accessed 12 March 2013
  2. 1 2 Maps (Map). Google Maps.
  3. ↑ Kellermann, Anja (2001). A New New English. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 242. ISBN   978-3-8311-2368-1 . Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  4. ↑ Gold, Peter (2005). Gibraltar: British Or Spanish?. Taylor & Francis. p. 87. ISBN   978-0-415-34795-2 . Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  5. ↑ Morris, D. S.; Haigh, R. H.; Morris, D. S. (1992). Britain, Spain and Gibraltar: 1945-90. Taylor & Francis Group. p. 141. ISBN   978-0-415-07145-1 . Retrieved 28 November 2012.


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