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The Newbury Bypass was built 25 years ago this month, and was one of the most controversial road building programmes in the Thames Valley.
It cost more than £100 million to construct and was designed to take busy traffic away from the town.
The plan was to construct a new road around Newbury, which had become a notorious traffic bottle neck. But that meant cutting through areas of countryside, which the protestors were determined to protect.
Environmentalists protesting the construction of The Newbury Bypass in 1996
Environmentalists protesting the site built 35 camps high in the trees on the route, and say it destroyed a beautiful area of countryside.