It then cuts through the green buffer farmland of two rural villages and terminates at the road network at Gatwick Airport's northern perimeter.

The road turns right at a roundabout on to Swandon Way, becoming a primary route for a short stretch (as a continuation of the A3205), before passing Wandsworth Town railway station.

The road reverts to non-primary status, and changes name to Garratt Lane, passing Southside shopping centre, before it heads out of Wandsworth and into Earlsfield.

The road enters the St Helier Estate, firstly in the Morden area before the Carshalton part in the [London Borough of Sutton.]

The road reaches Rosehill, which contains a busy 6-way roundabout, before becoming a primary class A-road as it becomes Reigate Avenue (effectively the Sutton by-pass.)

It travels beside Banstead Heath (still as Brighton Road) before reaching the small settlement of Lower Kingswood.

After a period of farms, the road passes the village of Hookwood, taking a left turn at a roundabout.

Continuing past Povey Cross, the road reaches Longbridge Roundabout on the border with West Sussex.

[4] The road's notoriety developed shortly after World War II due to the increasing affordability and popularity of motorbikes and cars.

[5] Measures to stop these races include barriers erected on the centre grass verge which runs the length of this stretch, where people used to park to watch illegal road use.

In August 2006 two men illegally racing along this stretch of a public highway caused an accident that killed three people, a separate offence, and were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of years.

Aggravating the offence committed, the conviction found from the evidence in the case that the two men were driving recklessly at a speed much faster than the 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) limit on the road at the point of the accident.