A5268 road

A5268
The new opening in the City Walls created for the A5268
Route information
Length	1.9 mi (3.1 km)
Existed	1966–present
Major junctions
Orbital around Chester
Major intersections	A540 A56 A51 A483 A548
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones

The A5268 is Chester's Inner Ring Road. The road, which was built to dual carriageway standard, has roundabouts and traffic lights. Its purpose was to enable the pedestrianisation of Chester.

Work involved demolishing a large tract of properties through Nicholas Street and Watergate Street and building a flyover across the North Wales Mainline railway. A new opening also had to be constructed through Chester's city walls. In 1966 St Martin's Gate was opened by Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle.^[1] The whole inner ring road project was completed by 1972.

It was constructed in the 1960s to divert traffic from through the city centre.^[2] The through-traffic function of the road was superseded in 1976 by the construction of Chester's southerly by-pass.