Travelling distance

[marryme]

I stay in Preston, Lancashire. I want to travel to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, how far is it?? And how far am i from London by car and time??

[Im a BusyBee]

if you search for aa route planner this will give you all the info you are asking. You can go to and from any place and it works it all out for you - same as sat nav.

[vehelpfulguy]

There is also an RAC route planner

http://www.rac.co.uk/web/routeplanner/

I use an internet route planner before every long journey. If you have the post code of the start and stop points it gives an accurate mileage.

It also gives a rough guideline to how long it may take.

On some of them you can also specify if you want to use more motorway, less motorway, or no motorway.

[Grunty]

But occasionally you need to use common sense as well. As a trial I planned a route to the Isle of Wight via my favourite Southampton/East Cowes ferry instead of the Portsmouth/Ryde one. I put in Southampton and East Cowes as points on the route. It sent me to Southampton, then Portsmouth, then Ryde and finally back to East Cowes.