Overnight B439 closures at Dodwell run to 10 October, 8pm to 6am on weeknights. Grafton Lane, Bidford, is shut to March 2027, and the Mop Fair orders are out.
The main road out of Stratford towards Bidford and Evesham goes to night closures on Monday 28 September. The B439 Bordon Hill and Evesham Road at Dodwell shuts from 8pm to 6am on weeknights for resurfacing. The anticipated completion is Saturday 10 October, and there is no weekend working.
That order is now made. The county published it on 25 September, alongside the made order for the longest closure in the district. Grafton Lane at Bidford-on-Avon closes on 28 September for water main replacement, with an anticipated completion of 1 March 2027.
Tonight, Friday 25 September, the A46 closes again at the motorway. National Highways has added a third night to its Warwick to M40 junction 15 scheme: the A46 northbound from junction 15, including the exit slip and the roundabout, is shut from 9pm to 6am.
The October closures in town are now set in law. The district council’s order for the Mop Fair shuts nine streets from 1am on Sunday 11 October to 6am on Tuesday 13 October. The town council has also posted a new closure of Church Lane in Shottery from 24 October to 7 November.
What is shut right now
- A46 northbound at M40 junction 15. Closed tonight, 9pm to 6am, from the junction 15 exit slip and roundabout to the A46 entry slip. National Highways gives the diversion only as “via National Highways”.
- B4035 Campden Road, Shipston-on-Stour. Closed between Norgren Crescent and Queens Avenue for footway reconstruction, weekdays only, 9.30am to 3.30pm, since 14 September. The anticipated completion is 9 October 2026, and the county’s programme still marks it ongoing. The signed diversion runs via Campden Road, the A429 Fosse Way and Darlingscott Road.
- D5571 Watery Lane, Sherbourne, on the A429 between Stratford and Warwick. Sherbourne is in Warwick district, not this one. The drainage closure there reaches its anticipated completion today. A separate proposed order for mains renewal on the same stretch runs from 21 September to an anticipated 11 October. We have not seen that one advertised as made.
- B4086 Tiddington Road, the main road east out of Stratford, is still marked ongoing as a minor carriageway scheme, with no dates attached.
- Public Footpath AL110 at Morton Bagot is closed because of the condition of a bridge on its route, from 20 August for up to six months. The signed alternative is Public Footpaths 229/AL110a/1 and 229/AL110a/2.
- Public Bridleway SM191 at Upper Lighthorne and Public Footpath SM175A at Radway remain closed for works, both from 15 August for up to six months.
- The Park and Stride canal towpath route from the park and ride into town is still closed because of a landslip. The district council’s park and ride page, rechecked today, still sends walkers along Timothy’s Bridge Road.
Two footway schemes have finished. The county’s programme now marks C52 Dassett Road at Northend and Elm Close at Ilmington as completed. Both were still ongoing at our last check.
Walton Park Road at Wellesbourne passed its anticipated completion date on 14 September. No later order has been advertised for it, and nothing published since confirms it has reopened. We still cannot say either way.
Several closures have run their course since our last check:
- the Food Festival order on Bridge Street, Henley Street and Meer Street, which ended at 10pm on 20 September
- the two A46 northbound nights on 23 and 24 September, and the M40 southbound junction 15 entry slip, 21 to 24 September
- Clopton Road, Stratford, closed 19 to 23 September for urgent work on a customer’s water supply, according to the town council’s notice
- the one-day and two-day patching and utility jobs of 21 to 25 September at Wootton Wawen, Newbold on Stour, Armscote, Blackwell, Great Wolford, Snitterfield and Ullenhall
The A46 gets a third night, and the M40 moves to junction 16
National Highways reissues its seven-day closure report on working days. The edition covering Friday 25 September to Thursday 1 October was read in full for this page, all seven daily sheets.
It holds one A46 closure near Stratford, and it is tonight. The scheme, “A46 northbound Warwick to M40 Jct 15”, had two nights booked last week. It now has a third:
- Friday 25 September, 9pm to 6am: the A46 northbound from M40 junction 15, including the exit slip and the roundabout, through to the A46 entry slip road
After tonight, the work on the M40 moves north-west to junction 16, where the A3400 from Henley-in-Arden meets the motorway:
- Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 September, 9pm to 6am: the M40 northbound junction 16 to M42 junction 3a link road is closed
- Wednesday 30 September, 9pm to 6am: the M40 northbound junction 16 entry slip is closed
Further south, the M40 northbound between junctions 11 and 12 closes on Monday 28 September, 10.15pm to 6am. The junction 11 entry slip at Banbury and the junction 12 exit slip at Gaydon close with it. The report gives the diversion for that one as “via local authority roads”.
| Night | Closures listed |
|---|---|
| Friday 25 September | 239 |
| Saturday 26 September | 90 |
| Sunday 27 September | 73 |
| Monday 28 September | 287 |
| Tuesday 29 September | 295 |
| Wednesday 30 September | 241 |
| Thursday 1 October | 229 |
The weekend dip is the normal pattern. National Highways front-loads its work onto weeknights, so this Sunday carries about a quarter as many closures as next Tuesday.
The A46 appears elsewhere in the report, and none of it is ours. Thorpe on the Hill, Swinderby and Widmerpool are the A46 in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. The A46 southbound from the M69 to Walsgrave, closed tonight, is in Warwickshire but at Coventry, about 20 miles away.
The B439 at Dodwell: nights, for a fortnight
This is the closure worth planning around. The B439 Bordon Hill and Evesham Road is the road from Stratford out towards Bidford-on-Avon and Evesham. It is being resurfaced overnight from Monday 28 September to Saturday 10 October, 8pm to 6am, excluding Saturday and Sunday nights.
The county’s made order closes it between the Bordon Hill roundabout (Whittington Way and Luddington Road) and Luddington Lane. The letter sent to residents describes the site differently, as running from Dodwell Caravan Park westwards towards Bidford for 1,240 metres. Neither document corrects the other, so both are printed here.
The signed diversion is long, because there is no short way round:
- Clockwise: B439 Evesham Road, Stratford Road, Tower Hill and Salford Road, then the A46, the A3400 Birmingham Road, the A4390 through Arden Street, Grove Road and Evesham Place, and back onto the B439
- Anti-clockwise: B439 Bordon Hill and Evesham Road, the A4390 through Evesham Place and Grove Road, the A422 Alcester Road, the A46, then the B439 through Salford Road, Tower Hill, Stratford Road and Evesham Road
The resident letter sets out the phasing:
- surfacing out and first course, Monday 28 September to Thursday 1 October
- ironwork, Friday 2 October
- final surface and road markings, Monday 5 to Friday 9 October
The county files this scheme under a different village. Its forward programme lists file reference SMU/0103 as B439 Evesham Road at Luddington, still dated 28 September. The same reference appears on the resident letter for the Dodwell works. It is one scheme, not two.
Coming in the next fortnight
Most of the closures below are weekday daytime jobs. The dates are the anticipated completion in each order rather than the legal ceiling.
| Where | Why | When |
|---|---|---|
| A46 northbound, M40 junction 15 exit slip and roundabout | Overnight carriageway closure | Tonight, 25 September, 9pm to 6am |
| Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon | Waterside Upmarket | Sunday 27 September and every Sunday in October, 9am to 6pm |
| B439 Bordon Hill and Evesham Road, Dodwell | Carriageway resurfacing, 8pm to 6am weeknights | 28 September to 10 October |
| Grafton Lane, Bidford-on-Avon | Water main replacement | 28 September to 1 March 2027 |
| Shipston Road, Alderminster | Water pipe renewal | 28 September to 1 October |
| Kington Lane, Claverdon | Duct laying | 28 to 30 September |
| Headland Road, Welford-on-Avon | Replacement of a decayed telegraph pole | 28 September |
| Grafton Road, Wixford | Pole testing, about 320 metres east of the Moorlands entrance, 9.30am to 3.30pm | 28 September |
| M40 northbound, junction 11 to 12, with the J11 entry and J12 exit slips | Overnight carriageway closure | Night of 28 September, 10.15pm to 6am |
| M40 northbound, junction 16 to M42 junction 3a link road | Overnight link road closure | Nights of 28 and 29 September, 9pm to 6am |
| Public Bridleway W25A, Bushwood | Dangerous bridge, no alternative route | From 29 September, up to six months |
| M40 northbound, junction 16 entry slip | Overnight slip road closure | Night of 30 September, 9pm to 6am |
| New Road, Alderminster | Telegraph pole renewal | 2 October |
| Bidford-on-Avon High Street | Village market | Saturday 3 October, 6.30am to 2pm |
| Alne Bank Road, Alcester | Footway resurfacing, odd and even sides, weekdays 8am to 5pm | 5 to 16 October |
| D5401 Collins Way, Alcester | Footway resurfacing, weekdays 8am to 4pm | 5 to 23 October |
| B4090 Alcester Heath Road, Sambourne | Minor carriageway scheme | 8 October |
| B4035 Campden Road, Shipston-on-Stour | Footway reconstruction, live now | To 9 October, weekdays 9.30am to 3.30pm |
| Mop Fair: Bridge Street, High Street, Henley Street and six more | Stratford Mop Fair | 1am on 11 October to 6am on 13 October |
| D5571 Watery Lane, Sherbourne (Warwick district) | Mains renewal, proposed order | To 11 October |
Three things in that list are worth a second look.
Grafton Lane at Bidford-on-Avon is a five-month closure, and it is now confirmed. On 11 September it was a proposed order. The 25 September bundle lists it among the orders the county has made, with the same dates and the same diversion: Grafton Lane, Wixford Road, Evesham Road and Stratford Road. No village in the district loses a road for longer this year.
Collins Way in Alcester runs three times as long as the programme says. The county’s forward programme gives a single date, 15 October. Its scheme notice, published since our last check, gives 5 to 23 October, 8am to 4pm on weekdays, by road closure. Alne Bank starts the same day, so two Alcester footway jobs overlap for a fortnight.
Bushwood has no way round. The bridleway closure from 29 September says no alternative route is available.
Warwickshire writes most temporary orders to last up to 18 months, even when the job takes a day. That wording is a legal ceiling, not a forecast. Read the anticipated completion date instead.
The Mop Fair order, street by street
The district council’s Temporary Traffic Regulation (Road Closure No. 38) Order 2026 was sealed on 9 September. The town council published it on 23 September. It is made under section 21 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847.
It closes these streets to traffic and to waiting:
- Greenhill Street
- Rother Street, from its junctions with Greenhill Street, Wood Street and Windsor Street to the junction with Ely Street
- Wood Street
- Union Street
- Bridge Street
- Windsor Street, from Mansell Street to Rother Street
- Meer Street
- Henley Street
- High Street
The hours run across three days:
- Sunday 11 October: from 1am to 11.59pm
- Monday 12 October: all day
- Tuesday 13 October: from midnight to 6am
Breaching the order is an offence carrying a fine of up to £1,000. Buses use temporary stops and arrive and depart from Guild Street, behind Marks and Spencer, according to the town council.
The Runaway Mop closes a shorter list, from 23 to 25 October. The town council’s notice names Greenhill Street, Rother Street up to the entrance to the NCP car park, Wood Street, Windsor Street, Henley Street and Meer Street. Bridge Street and High Street are not on it. The notice links two copies of the closure map but no order, so the hours are not published yet. More on the fair itself is in our Mop Fair report.
Four changes you can still object to
- A crossing on Darlingscote Road, Shipston-on-Stour. The county proposes a parallel crossing on a flat top road hump near Hay Meadow. It meets a planning condition on the new food store approved under district application 24/00528/FUL. Objections must be in writing, must give the grounds, and must reach Alex Williams, Engineering Design Services, Communities Directorate, PO Box 43, Shire Hall, Warwick CV34 4SX, or alexwilliams@warwickshire.gov.uk, by 1 October 2026.
- Stopping up a bridleway at Southam for HS2. The Department for Transport proposes to stop up and divert a length of bridleway SM116 at Southam, under section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Objections must give reasons in writing and quote NATTRAN/WM/S247/6374, to nationalcasework@dft.gov.uk or the Transport Infrastructure Planning Casework Unit, PO Box 1393, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 5FQ, by midnight on 9 October 2026.
- A new footpath at Fenny Compton. The county made a definitive map modification order on 22 September, Order No. 1 2025, Path No. SM230. It would add a 2-metre footpath of about 142 metres, running north-east along the fenced school boundary. Representations go in writing to the Strategic Director, Communities Group, Shire Hall, Warwick CV34 4SX, by 6 November 2026. The order and plan can be seen at Shire Hall, at the district council’s offices in Church Street, at Stratford library, and at warwickshire.gov.uk/pathorders.
- No waiting outside Stratford High School, and a lower limit on the B4451 at Southam. Both proposals close for objections today, 25 September. The first would put double yellow lines on 54 metres of Alcester Road; objections go to pmc@warwickshire.gov.uk under the heading “Stratford V13”. The second would extend the 40mph limit on the B4451 Kineton Road by 184 metres, heading “B4451 Kineton Road”.
Where to check what is shut today
- County roads: Warwickshire County Council publishes a live map of works and closures at warwickshire.gov.uk/roadworksmap. Zoom in rather than searching. The same council page carries an email alert sign-up for works near an address you choose.
- The A46 and M40: these are National Highways roads, so county listings do not cover them. Check National Highways travel updates.
- Event closures in town: Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council posts individual closure notices as they are made, with the order attached. The district council’s list of road closures carries only the recurring markets.
- Forward resurfacing: the county’s Stratford-on-Avon future works programme lists carriageway and footway schemes with dates, often months ahead. It runs to three pages, and pages two and three carry the residential streets.
Closures already in the diary
These are dated and published, not forecasts. The list starts after the fortnight table above.
| Where | What | When |
|---|---|---|
| Longdon Road, Darlingscott | Boundary box installation, proposed order | 13 to 15 October 2026 |
| Wolverton Road, Snitterfield | New water connection, proposed order | 13 to 15 October 2026 |
| Lighthorne Road, Kineton | New ducting and clearing blockages, proposed order | 14 to 23 October 2026 |
| C41 Featherbed Lane, Station Road and The Green, Aston Cantlow | Carriageway patching, 9.30am to 3.30pm, proposed order | 16 October 2026 |
| A429 Warwick Road, Wellesbourne | Carriageway resurfacing | 19 October 2026 |
| Tavern Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon | Temporary closure, reason not yet published | 20 to 22 October 2026 |
| A429 Wellesbourne Bypass | Carriageway resurfacing, three separate sections | 21 October, 29 October and 2 November 2026 |
| Greenhill, Rother, Wood, Windsor, Henley and Meer Streets | Runaway Mop Fair | 23 to 25 October 2026 |
| Church Lane, Shottery | Surface water and foul sewer connections, closed from Campbell Close | 24 October to 7 November 2026 |
| Station Road, Shipston-on-Stour | Minor carriageway scheme | 1 November 2026 |
| B4455 Fosse Way, Chesterton | Carriageway resurfacing | 16 November 2026 |
| Shipston Road, Blackwell | Minor carriageway scheme | 1 December 2026 |
| C59 Welsh Road, Priors Marston | Minor carriageway scheme | 7 December 2026 |
| Atherstone Road, Preston on Stour | Minor carriageway scheme | 8 December 2026 |
| C56 Francis Leys Hill, Whichford | Minor carriageway scheme | 9 December 2026 |
| Magdalen Close, Lower Quinton | Minor carriageway scheme | 10 December 2026 |
| Ragley Mill Lane, Alcester | Minor carriageway scheme | 23 December 2026 |
| B439 Salford Road, Bidford-on-Avon | Carriageway resurfacing | 11 January 2027 |
| C31 Halford Road, Pillerton Priors | Minor carriageway scheme | 12 January 2027 |
| Southam Crescent, Lighthorne Heath | Carriageway resurfacing | 15 February 2027 |
| Grafton Lane, Bidford-on-Avon | Water main replacement, closed throughout | To 1 March 2027 |
All three pages of the county’s programme were reread today, and four things have moved since our last check:
- Halford Road at Pillerton Priors now has a date, 12 January 2027. It was TBA.
- Dassett Road at Northend and Elm Close at Ilmington are now marked completed.
- Two new footway schemes have appeared with no date yet: Bridge Street in Stratford (D6216) and High Street in Welford-on-Avon (C46). Bridge Street is the town’s main shopping street, so watch for its notice.
- The cancelled Campden Road scheme at Clifford Chambers has dropped off the list.
The Church Lane notice carries a wrong date. The town council posted it on 24 September for a closure from 24 October to 7 November. The county’s notice itself is signed “23 October 2026”, a month after it was published. The closure dates in its body are the ones to go by.
The Aston Cantlow order and the programme describe one job two ways. The programme lists C41 Featherbed Lane at Wilmcote on 16 October. The proposed order for the same date closes the C41 Featherbed Lane, Station Road and The Green at Aston Cantlow, between the A3400 Birmingham Road and Church Road. Kineton’s Lighthorne Road entry is also printed twice in the same bundle, word for word.
Three schemes still have no date at all:
- a second stretch of the A429 Warwick Road at Wellesbourne
- Moreton Morrell Lane at Lighthorne
- the two new footway schemes at Bridge Street and Welford-on-Avon
The A429 through Wellesbourne is still the one to watch. Four resurfacing schemes land on the same corridor between 19 October and 2 November 2026, and it is the main route between Stratford and the M40 at junction 15.
Sundays in the town centre
Waterside is closed from 9am to 6pm most Sundays between Bridge Street and Sheep Street for the Waterside Upmarket, which runs across the whole 2026 season. The remaining dates are Sunday 27 September, every Sunday in October and four in November.
If you drive to the theatre or the riverside on a Sunday, the Bridgeway and Recreation Ground car parks are the ones to aim for. On Sunday 11 October allow for the Mop Fair as well, which takes Bridge Street from 1am.
Bidford-on-Avon’s High Street closes on the first Saturday of most months, 6.30am to 2pm, for the village market. The next one is Saturday 3 October.
The routes that matter, and the bypass that does not exist yet
Stratford has no ring road. Through traffic between the A46 and the south of the district still funnels across Clopton Bridge, a fifteenth-century structure. That is not a quirk of history; it is a stated planning constraint.
The draft South Warwickshire Local Plan is blunt about why a bypass keeps coming up. Its Policy ID.4 justification states that “highway modelling has shown that there is insufficient capacity for further significant development south of Stratford-upon-Avon town and there are a number of capacity constraints on the highway network, including the historic Clopton Bridge.”
The policy protects land within an indicative corridor for a western bypass between the A3400 Shipston Road and the A46 at the Alcester Road end of town, crossing the B439 Evesham Road and joining Campden Road south of Clifford Chambers. It would also cross the Stratford Greenway at a height that keeps open the option of putting heavy rail back on it.
Two things to be clear about. The corridor is “an area of search only and does not fix the final alignment”, and the road is required to deliver the Long Marston Airfield new community and the 2,727-home allocation south-east of town, neither of which starts building before 2030. Nobody is driving on this in this decade.
The same plan safeguards land for five smaller strategic road schemes that would land sooner and closer to home:
- the A46 junction with the A422 Alcester Road at Wildmoor
- the A46 junction with the A3400 Birmingham Road at Bishopton
- roundabout and approach widening at Shipston Road and Seven Meadows Road
- widening at M40 junction 15
- Marraway, on the A46 at Warwick Road
It also marks an area of search for a second park and ride on the southern side of town near the Rosebird Centre, with 500 spaces.
What parking costs
Stratford-on-Avon District Council runs twelve car parks with more than 2,800 spaces in the town centre, all within a five-minute walk of the middle. Charges apply 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and almost all of them are card or app only, with no cash accepted.
| Stay | Pay and display car parks | Bridgeway multi-storey |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 1 hour | £1.40 | Free |
| Up to 2 hours | £2.70 | £2.70 |
| Up to 3 hours | £4.10 | £4.10 |
| Up to 4 hours | £5.80 | £5.80 |
| Up to 9 hours | £9.30 | £9.30 |
| Up to 12 hours | £11.60 | £11.60 |
| Up to 24 hours | £13.90 | £13.90 |
| Overnight, 16:00 to 08:00 | £3.50 | £3.50 |
The first hour is free at the Bridgeway multi-storey and nowhere else. It has 650 spaces, runs on number plate recognition with no ticket, and you pay on return at a machine. Under an hour, you simply drive out and the barrier lifts. The other main town-centre options are the Recreation Ground (378 spaces, Swans Nest Lane), Arden Street (240 spaces, eight electric vehicle bays) and the Windsor Street multi-storey (243 spaces, no lifts).
Since 11 May 2026 you can pay through the National Parking Platform, which means any of APCOA Connect, Caura, JustPark, PayByPhone or RingGo rather than one mandated app. Machines still work where they exist. Each provider sets its own fees, so check the signs.
The park and ride is the cheapest way in
Stratford Park and Ride is off Bishopton Lane by the A46 and A3400 Birmingham Road roundabout, postcode CV37 0RJ, with more than 700 spaces.
- Car park: £1 for the day if you arrive from 9.00am, or £3 before 8.59am. Overnight is £4 from 9.00am, £6 before.
- Bus: £2.50 adult single or return, £1.50 child, £4.00 group return for up to five people. Buses every 15 minutes for most of the day, 10 to 12 minutes into town.
- Hours: buses from 7.30am to 6.28pm Monday to Saturday, from 10.00am on Sundays.
- Drop-off is outside NatWest on Wood Street; pick-up is opposite, outside Cancer Research UK.
- Warwickshire concessionary bus pass holders travel free after 9am on weekdays and any time at weekends. Non-Warwickshire pass holders, after 9.30am.
- Height limit 2.1m. No motorhomes, caravans or camper vans at any time. Blue Badge holders park free but still pay bus fares.
Two people parking after 9am and taking the bus both ways costs £6 in total, against £9.30 for nine hours in a town car park. For a family of four using the group return, it is £5, which is less than a single adult ticket at most of the town’s paid attractions.
If you are heading for the railway station rather than the town centre, the park and ride car park ticket does not cover rail travel. Our page on trains from Stratford covers the services that actually run.
One current caveat: the Park and Stride walking route along the canal towpath from the park and ride into town is closed because of a landslip. The council directs walkers along Timothy’s Bridge Road instead.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I check Stratford roadworks?
Warwickshire County Council’s live map at warwickshire.gov.uk/roadworksmap covers county roads. The A46 and M40 are National Highways roads and appear on their travel updates instead. Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council posts individual closure notices for the town as they are made.
What is closed in Stratford this week?
Tonight, Friday 25 September, the A46 northbound at M40 junction 15 is shut from 9pm to 6am, including the exit slip and the roundabout. From Monday 28 September, the B439 Evesham Road at Dodwell closes 8pm to 6am on weeknights, and Grafton Lane at Bidford-on-Avon closes until March 2027. B4035 Campden Road at Shipston-on-Stour is shut on weekday daytimes to 9 October, and the B4086 Tiddington Road scheme is still marked ongoing.
When is the B439 Evesham Road closed at Dodwell?
Overnight from Monday 28 September to Saturday 10 October, 8pm to 6am, excluding Saturday and Sunday nights. The made order closes the B439 between the Bordon Hill roundabout and Luddington Lane for resurfacing. The signed diversion runs by the A46, the A3400 Birmingham Road and the A4390 in one direction, and by the A4390, the A422 Alcester Road and the A46 in the other.
How long is Grafton Lane in Bidford closed?
From 28 September 2026 to an anticipated 1 March 2027, for water main replacement. The order is now made. The signed diversion is Grafton Lane, Wixford Road, Evesham Road and Stratford Road.
Which roads close for the Stratford Mop Fair?
Greenhill Street, Rother Street, Wood Street, Union Street, Bridge Street, Windsor Street, Meer Street, Henley Street and High Street. The district council’s order runs from 1am on Sunday 11 October to 6am on Tuesday 13 October, and buses use Guild Street. The Runaway Mop closes a shorter list from 23 to 25 October.
Is the M40 closed near Stratford?
Not at junction 15 this week, after tonight’s A46 closure. The work moves to junction 16: the northbound link to the M42 at junction 3a is closed on the nights of 28 and 29 September, and the northbound entry slip on 30 September, 9pm to 6am. The M40 northbound between junctions 11 and 12 also closes on the night of 28 September.
Is there any free parking in Stratford town centre?
Only the first hour at the Bridgeway multi-storey car park. Every other council car park charges from the first hour, and charges apply 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Blue Badge holders park free at the pay and display car parks, and at Bridgeway only through Stratford ShopMobility.
How much is Stratford park and ride?
£1 to park for the day if you arrive from 9.00am (£3 before), plus £2.50 per adult for the bus, single or return. A group return for up to five people is £4.00 and a child is £1.50.
Is Stratford getting a bypass?
Not soon. The draft South Warwickshire Local Plan safeguards a corridor for a western bypass between the A3400 Shipston Road and the A46 Alcester Road. The plan calls it “an area of search only”, the scheme “remains at an early stage”, and it is tied to development that does not start until the 2030s.
Which roads are being resurfaced near Stratford?
The county’s programme has the B439 Evesham Road at Dodwell overnight from 28 September to 10 October. Then come Alne Bank and Collins Way in Alcester from 5 October, the A429 at Wellesbourne across four dates from 19 October to 2 November, and the Fosse Way at Chesterton on 16 November. Later dates are Ragley Mill Lane in Alcester on 23 December, Salford Road at Bidford-on-Avon on 11 January 2027, Halford Road at Pillerton Priors on 12 January and Southam Crescent at Lighthorne Heath on 15 February. Footway work on Campden Road at Shipston-on-Stour runs to 9 October.
Sources
- Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders, published 25 September 2026, the Stratford Observer bundle, for the made orders at New Road and Shipston Road in Alderminster, Headland Road at Welford-on-Avon, Grafton Lane at Bidford-on-Avon, Public Bridleway W25A at Bushwood, the B439 at Dodwell, Kington Lane at Claverdon and Grafton Road at Wixford, and for the proposed orders at Lighthorne Road in Kineton, the C41 at Aston Cantlow, Longdon Road at Darlingscott and Wolverton Road at Snitterfield. The same page carries the Fenny Compton path modification order and its 6 November deadline. It publishes as a scanned PDF with no readable text, so it has to be read as an image.
- Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders, published 11 September 2026, the earlier Stratford-on-Avon bundle, for the proposed versions of the Grafton Lane and B439 orders and for Public Footpath AL110’s alternative route.
- Warwickshire County Council’s scheme notice for the B439 Bordon Hill and Evesham Road, Dodwell and its resident letter, for the SMU/0103 file reference, the 1,240-metre site description from Dodwell Caravan Park and the week-by-week phasing.
- Warwickshire County Council’s scheme notices for D5401 Collins Way, Alcester, rechecked today, for the 5 to 23 October dates and the 8am to 4pm weekday hours; B4035 Campden Road, Shipston-on-Stour, for the 9 October anticipated end; and D5400 Alne Bank Road, Alcester, for the 5 to 16 October dates.
- Stratford-on-Avon future works programmes, all three pages, reread today, for the dated schedules, the schemes now marked completed, the new Bridge Street and Welford-on-Avon footway schemes, and Halford Road’s new January date.
- Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council news, rechecked today, for the Mop Fair notice and the district council’s Road Closure No. 38 Order, the Runaway Mop notice, the Church Lane, Shottery notice and its county order, the Clopton Road notice, and the Tavern Lane notice.
- National Highways road closure report for 25 September to 1 October 2026, last updated 25 September at 13:15 and downloaded today. The per-night counts, the A46 northbound closure at junction 15 and the M40 closures at junctions 11, 12 and 16 are all read from its seven daily sheets.
- Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders dated 11 September 2026, the Warwick and Kenilworth bundle, for the two Watery Lane orders at Sherbourne.
- Department for Transport notice of a proposed stopping up of bridleway SM116 at Southam, for the NATTRAN/WM/S247/6374 reference and the 9 October deadline.
- Warwickshire County Council’s notice of a proposed parallel crossing on Darlingscote Road, Shipston-on-Stour, for application 24/00528/FUL, the objection address and the 1 October deadline.
- Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders, published 4 September 2026, for the proposed no waiting outside Stratford High School, and a third bundle of that date for the B4451 Kineton Road speed limit proposal; both close for objections on 25 September.
- Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders published 14 August 2026, for Footpath AL110 at Morton Bagot and the bridleway and footpath closures at Upper Lighthorne and Radway.
- Stratford-on-Avon District Council list of road closures for the Waterside Upmarket and Bidford market dates.
- Stratford-on-Avon District Council car park pages: car parks in Stratford-upon-Avon, Bridgeway multi-storey, Arden Street, Recreation Ground and Windsor Street for tariffs, space counts and the National Parking Platform.
- Stratford Park and Ride, Stratford-on-Avon District Council for bus fares, timings, car park charges and the canal towpath closure, which the page, rechecked today, still records.
- Stratford Mop Fair, our own report, for the October fair.
- South Warwickshire Local Plan, Publication draft, July 2026, Policy ID.4 and paragraphs 3.2.4 to 3.2.5, for the safeguarded bypass corridor and the Clopton Bridge capacity constraint.
Correction, 9 September 2026. On 5 September this page said that six short closures from the August order bundle had finished, among them Elm Close at Ilmington. That was read from the expiry of the temporary order. Warwickshire’s own footway resurfacing programme still listed the Elm Close scheme as ongoing at the time, so the closure should not have been described as finished. The programme now marks it completed.
Correction, 19 September 2026. Until that day this page listed Watery Lane at Sherbourne in a table captioned as closures affecting Stratford-on-Avon district. Sherbourne is in Warwick district. The closure is on the A429 between Stratford and Warwick, so it stays on the page, labelled with the district it is actually in.
Roadworks change daily and event closures are added through the year. Check the live map before you travel, and confirm parking charges on the machine or the council’s own page. Sources rechecked 25 September 2026. Four things we could not confirm today. Warwickshire’s live roadworks map runs on one.network and needs a sign-in for its underlying data, so the closures above come from the statutory orders rather than from the map. The Runaway Mop notice publishes two copies of a closure map and no order, so its hours are not known. National Highways gives the diversion for tonight’s A46 closure only as “via National Highways”. And Walton Park Road at Wellesbourne passed its anticipated completion date on 14 September, and nothing published since either confirms it has reopened or extends it.
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