Jockvale Road is a road

Road

A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motor vehicle. Roads consist of one, or sometimes two, roadways each with one or more lanes and also any...

 in Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Ontario

Ontario

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 that bisects the older neighbourhoods of Barrhaven

Barrhaven, Ontario

Barrhaven is a rapidly growing suburban neighbourhood in the southwest of the urban area of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, about southwest of downtown Ottawa. Prior to amalgamation with Ottawa in 2001, Barrhaven was part of the City of Nepean. Its population as of the Canada 2006 Census was...

. It also serves the new communities south of Barrhaven and is a major road for reaching Manotick

Manotick, Ontario

Manotick, Ontario is an exurb in Eastern Ontario on the Rideau River, located on the south edge of Ottawa's urban area. Manotick is located immediately south of the booming suburbs Barrhaven and Riverside South and is about from downtown Ottawa. It has been part of the City of Ottawa since...

.

Jockvale Road begins in northwestern Barrhaven at Cedarview Road

Cedarview Road (Ottawa)

Cedarview Road is a north-south road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs between Bells Corners and Barrhaven. Formerly a major arterial road for Barrhaven residents, its use declined after the opening of Highway 416 in 1999....

. Before Barrhaven started to become residentially developed in the late 1960s, the road was a lone rural diagonal route continuing to the intersection of Cedarview Road and Fallowfield. It runs southwesterly as an isolated road: road access to the nearby houses is limited to a few intersections and two roundabout

Roundabout

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s. Jockvale Road is broken by commercial development: it stops at Strandherd Drive

Strandherd Drive (Ottawa)

Strandherd Drive is a major road serving the community of Barrhaven in southwest Ottawa.Up until the mid-1990s, Strandherd Drive was an east-west coursing road extending from Moodie Drive to Woodroffe Avenue...

 and resumes near Greenbank Road

Greenbank Road (Ottawa)

Greenbank Road is a major north-south road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that serves central Nepean and Barrhaven. From its northern terminus at the Queensway until its intersection with Jockvale Road, it is designated Ottawa Road #13....

. Jockvale Road passes through the communities of Heart's Desire and Stonebridge before reaching Prince of Wales Drive

Prince of Wales Drive (Ottawa)

Prince of Wales Drive is a road serving Ottawa, Ontario, named after the eponymous road in Battersea, London, U.K. The northern section is a low-speed street running along the west bank of the Rideau River, while southern portions of the road were formerly Highway 16 .Prince of Wales Drive is the...

, where the road continues to Manotick as Rideau Valley Drive. Jockvale Road has the designation of Ottawa Road #13 from Greenbank to Prince of Wales.

The community of "Jockvale" originally referred to a small group of homes near the Jockvale/Greenbank intersection; it now appears that name will be used for a new development west of Jockvale's terminus at Cedarview.