References in Popular Culture
- John Betjeman immortalised the A30 in his poem "Meditation on the A30".
- Arthur Boyt, star of BBC documentary The Man Who Eats Badgers, described the A30 near Bodmin Moor as a good road for finding roadkill ""
- In the videogame Tomb Raider: Legend, when her next destination is revealed to be Cornwall (apparently the location of King Arthur's tomb), heroine Lara Croft asks surprisedly "As in "take the M5 to the A30" Cornwall?"
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