A10 | ||||
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Route information | ||||
Length | 90.2 mi [1] [2] [3] (145.2 km) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | A3 at London Bridge 51°30′28″N0°05′14″W / 51.5079°N 0.0872°W | |||
A406 in Enfield M25 near Waltham Cross Contents
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North end | A47 / A149 near King's Lynn 52°45′14″N0°23′53″E / 52.754°N 0.398°E | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United Kingdom | |||
Constituent country | England | |||
Primary destinations | City of London Dalston Enfield Hertford Cambridge Ely Downham Market King's Lynn | |||
Road network | ||||
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The A10 is a major road in England which runs between The City of London and King's Lynn in Norfolk. [4]
At its southern terminus, the route meets the A3 directly north of London Bridge, above Monument London Underground station. [5] At its northern end, the A10 meets the A47 and A149 roads south-west of King's Lynn town centre. The route passes through or around primary destinations in Greater London, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, including Dalston, Enfield, Hertford, Cambridge, Ely and Downham Market. [4] [6]
The route between Bishopsgate in the City of London and Royston, Hertfordshire, roughly follows the path of Ermine Street, a Roman road. [4] [7] [8] [9]
At its southern end, the A10 begins at a junction with the A3, on the northern bank of the River Thames. The A3 runs southbound over London Bridge towards Elephant and Castle, before continuing to Clapham, Kingston upon Thames, Guildford and Portsmouth. At the junction the A10 also meets Cannon Street (towards St Pauls Cathedral and Blackfriars), King William Street (towards Bank) and Eastcheap (towards Tower Hill). Monument tube station on the Circle and District lines is directly below the junction. [5] The Monument to the Great Fire of London is south-east of the junction. [10]
Running north from the junction, the A10 is carried by Gracechurch Street, Bishopsgate and Norton Folgate. Liverpool Street station - the London terminus of the West Anglia Main Line (down to Enfield, Hertford, Stansted Airport and Cambridge) and the Great Eastern Main Line (down to Southend, Chelmsford, Ipswich and Norwich) - sits directly west of the A10 Bishopsgate. [4] [11] 22 Bishopsgate is the second-tallest building in London, and the tallest within The Square Mile. [12] [13]
Leaving the City of London northbound, the A10 is carried by Shoreditch High Street. The route meets the A1202 Great Eastern Street/Commercial Street - the London Inner Ring Road - directly to the south-west of Shoreditch High Street London Overground station. [4]
The London Inner Ring Road forms the boundary to the London Congestion Charge zone. The A10 falls within the charging zone between the A3 London Bridge and the ring road. [14]
North from the ring road, the A10 is carried by Kingsland Road, Kingsland High Street and Stoke Newington Road, before meeting a gyratory in the Stoke Newington area (Stoke Newington High Street, Northwold Road, Rectory Road and Manse Road). The A10 continues along Stamford Hill, Tottenham High Road, Bruce Grove, Lordship Lane and The Roundway - a crescent around the original Tower Gardens Estate (Tottenham's Garden Suburb), shared with the A1080. [4] [15]
The A10 passes Haggerston, Dalston Junction, Dalston Kingsland, Rectory Road, Stoke Newington, South Tottenham and Seven Sisters London Overground stations, and Seven Sisters tube station. [4]
Northbound from The Roundway, the A10 is carried by Great Cambridge Road, a dual carriageway. [4]
Along Great Cambridge Road, the A10 meets the A406 North Circular Road. Between A3 London Bridge and the North Circular Road, the A10 falls within the Ultra Low Emission Zone. [16] The A10 then passes through Southbury, cutting between Edmonton and Enfield before meeting the M25 London Orbital motorway at junction 25 (the Greater London and London Low Emission Zone boundaries). [4] [17]
In Greater London and the City of London, the A10 is managed by Transport for London. [18]
In Hertfordshire, leaving the M25 motorway junction, the A10 meets the A121 and B198 roads at a roundabout. Waltham Cross sits directly east of the route.
Continuing north, the A10 dual carriageway runs unbroken until Standon, passing Cheshunt, Broxbourne, Hoddesdon, Hertford, Ware and Wadesmill - through the Lea Valley. The route meets with the primary routes A414 (for Hertford town centre, Harlow and Chelmsford), A602 (for Stevenage) and the A120 (for Bishop's Stortford and Stansted Airport).
The dual carriageway then passes around the western perimeter of Puckeridge before becoming a single carriageway primary route near Westmill. The A10 becomes the Buntingford bypass, then continues north through Chipping, Buckland, Reed and Royston, to meet the A505 (for Baldock and Newmarket) at Hertfordshire's border with Cambridgeshire. The A10 through Royston is a gyratory comprising Market Hill, Priory Lane and Barkway Street. [4]
The A10 has been split into two sections in Cambridgeshire.
The southern section runs between Royston and the M11 motorway at junction 11. The single-carriageway route passes between the villages of Meldreth and Melbourn, along the south-eastern edge of Shepreth and through Foxton, Harston and Hauxton. At the M11 junction 11, the A10 meets the A1309 which continues into Cambridge City Centre, past the Trumpington Park and Ride.
The northern section runs between the A14 at junction 33 (Milton Interchange) and the River Little Ouse. Access from the Milton Interchange into Cambridge is via the A1309 southbound, near Cambridge Science Park - which is directly south-west of the junction - and Cambridge North railway station.
Northbound from the A14, the A10 runs along the western edge of Milton, passing Milton Park and Ride. The route also passes Landbeach, Waterbeach, Stretham and Little Thetford, crossing the River Great Ouse between Waterbeach and Stretham.
South of Ely, the A10 meets the A142 (for Chatteris, Soham and Newmarket). The route forms the western bypass to the City of Ely and Littleport before crossing the River Great Ouse for a second time. The A10 runs along the eastern bank of the Ouse until Southery in Norfolk, entering the county near Black Horse Drove. [4]
In Norfolk, the A10 passes Southery, Hilgay, Fordham, Denver, Downham Market, Tottenhill and West Winch before reaching the A47 (for Peterborough, Wisbech, Swaffham and Norwich). In Norfolk, the A10 meets the primary routes A1122 (for Wisbech and Swaffham) and A134 (for Thetford). The route also meets the A149 for Cromer and Hunstanton (known locally as The Coast Road), and King's Lynn town centre. [4]
County | Location | mi [1] [3] | km | Destinations | Notes | ||
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Greater London | City of London | 0.0 | 0.0 | Prince William Street (A3 south) / Eastcheap / Cannon Street | Southern terminus; northern terminus of A3 | ||
0.4 | 0.64 | Wormwood Street (A1211) | |||||
Hackney | 0.9 | 1.4 | Ring Road south to A11 / A13 / A2 – Docklands, Whitechapel | Southbound only | |||
1.0 | 1.6 | A1209 east (Bethnal Green Road) – Bethnal Green | Western terminus of A1209 | ||||
1.2 | 1.9 | Hackney Road (A1208 east) / Old Street | Western terminus of A1208 | ||||
2.5 | 4.0 | A104 (Dalston Lane / Balls Pond Road) – Dalston, Hackney, Holloway, Highbury | No access to A104 south-west from A10 south | ||||
4.4 | 7.1 | A107 (Upper Clapton Road / Amhurst Park) – Clapton | No access from A10 north to A107 north or from A10 south to A107 south; information signed southbound only | ||||
Haringey | 5.1 | 8.2 | A503 south-west (Seven Sisters Road) – Manor House, West End, Holloway, Finsbury Park | Manor House signed northbound only; West End, Holloway, and Finsbury Park signed southbound only; southern terminus of A503 concurrency | |||
5.2 | 8.4 | A504 (West Green Road / Broad Lane) – Hornsey, West Green | Southbound only | ||||
5.5 | 8.9 | A503 north-east (Monument Way) / Philip Lane (B153) to M11 / A1055 / A504 – Walthamstow, Tottenham Hale, Edmonton, Hornsey, West Green | To A1055 and Edmonton signed northbound only; northern terminus of A503 concurrency | ||||
5.9 | 9.5 | A1010 north (High Road) – Edmonton | Southern terminus of A1010 | ||||
6.3 | 10.1 | A109 south-east (Lordship Lane) to A1010 – Edmonton | Information signed southbound only; southern terminus of A109 concurrency | ||||
6.4 | 10.3 | A109 north-west (Lordship Lane) – Wood Green | Northern terminus of A109 concurrency | ||||
6.9 | 11.1 | A1080 south-west (The Roundway) to A1090 – Hornsey, Wood Green | Information signed northbound only; north-eastern terminus of A1080 | ||||
Enfield | 7.9 | 12.7 | A406 (North Circular Road) / A111 north-west (Hedge Lane) to M1 / M11 / A1 / A41 / A12 / A13 – Edmonton, Brent Cross, Potters Bar, Palmers Green | Potters Bar signed northbound only; south-eastern terminus of A111 | |||
10.6 | 17.1 | A110 (Southbury Road) – Chingford, Ponders End, Enfield, Oakwood | |||||
11.3 | 18.2 | Carterhatch Lane (A105 south) – Enfield Highway, Forty Hill | Northern terminus of A105 | ||||
Greater London– Hertfordshire boundary | Enfield–Waltham Cross boundary | 13.0 | 20.9 | M25 / M1 / M4 / M11 / M20 / M40 – Watford, Stansted Airport | M25 junction 25 | ||
Hertfordshire | Waltham Cross boundary | 13.6 | 21.9 | A121 south (Winston Churchill Way) / B198 (Lieutenant Ellis Way) – Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Cuffley, Goffs Oak | Northern terminus of A121 | ||
No major junctions | |||||||
Cheshunt | 15.5 | 24.9 | Brookfield Centre, New River Trading | Northbound exit only | |||
Cheshunt–Broxbourne town boundary | 16.0– 16.4 | 25.7– 26.4 | To A1170 – Broxbourne, Hertford, Hoddesdon, Wormley, Turnford | Hertford and Hoddesdon signed northbound only, Wormley and Turnford southbound only; no southbound entrance | |||
Hoddesdon town boundary | 18.8– 19.3 | 30.3– 31.1 | To A1170 / A414 – Hoddesdon, Hartford, Harlow | To A414, Hartford, and Harlow signed northbound only | |||
| 20.1– 20.7 | 32.3– 33.3 | A414 east to A1170 – Chelmsford, Harlow, Ware | Southern terminus of A414 concurrency | |||
Rush Green | 21.6– 22.1 | 34.8– 35.6 | A414 west – Hertford | Northern terminus of A414 concurrency | |||
| 22.2– 22.6 | 35.7– 36.4 | Kingsmead Viaduct | ||||
Ware | 23.1– 23.6 | 37.2– 38.0 | A602 / B1001 – Stevenage, Ware | South-eastern terminus of A602 | |||
| 24.1– 24.3 | 38.8– 39.1 | A1170 – Ware, Wadesmill, Thundridge | ||||
| 28.6 | 46.0 | End freeway | ||||
| 28.6 | 46.0 | A120 east / Ermine Street – Bishop's Stortford, Stansted Airport, The Hadhams, Puckeridge, Standon, Old Hall Green | Western terminus of A120 | |||
Buntingford | 33.6 | 54.1 | A507 west (Baldock Road) / Baldock Road (B1038) – Baldock, Buntingford | Eastern terminus of A507 | |||
Hertfordshire— Cambridgeshire county boundary | Royston town boundary | 41.7 | 67.1 | A505 to M11 / A1198 – Newmarket, Huntingdon, Baldock | |||
Cambridgeshire | Cambridge city boundary | 50.5 | 81.3 | M11 / A1309 north (Hauxton Road) – London, The North, Huntingdon, Ely, Cambridge | Northern terminus of southern segment | ||
| 50.5 | 81.3 | Gap in route around Cambridge | ||||
Milton | 50.5 | 81.3 | A14 / A1309 south (Milton Road) / Cambridge Road to M11 / A428 – Newmarket, Midlands, Huntingdon, London, Bedford, Cambridge, Milton | Southern terminus of northern segment; northern terminus of A1309 | |||
Stretham | 59.1 | 95.1 | A1123 (Wilburton Road) to A142 – Newmarket, Stretham, Huntingdon, Wilburton | ||||
Ely | 62.4 | 100.4 | A142 south-east (Angel Drove) / Cambridge Road – Newmarket, Ely | Southern terminus of A142 concurrency | |||
62.8 | 101.1 | A142 / Witchford Road to A141 – March, Ely | Northern terminus of A142 concurrency | ||||
Littleport | 68.4 | 110.1 | A1101 north-west / Wisbech Road – Wisbech, Littleport | Southern terminus of A1101 concurrency | |||
70.2 | 113.0 | A1101 south-east (Mildenhall Road) / New River Bank – Mildenhall, Queen Adelaide | Queen Adelaide signed southbound only; northern terminus of A1101 concurrency | ||||
Norfolk | Downham Market town boundary | 80.1 | 128.9 | A1122 west – Wisbech | Southern terminus of A1122 concurrency | ||
81.0 | 130.4 | A1122 east / Bexwell Road to A134 – Swaffham, Thetford, Downham Market | Northern terminus of A1122 concurrency | ||||
| 86.6 | 139.4 | A134 south / Watlington Road – Thetford, Magdalen, Watlington | Northern terminus of A134 | |||
North Runcton | 90.2 | 145.2 | A47 / A149 (Hardwick Road / Queen Elizabeth Way) to A17 / A148 – Norwich, Swaffham, Wisbech, Sleaford, Cromer, Hunstanton, Sandringham, King's Lynn town centre | Northern terminus | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
Between The City of London and Royston, the A10 follows a similar course to the Ermine Street Roman road. [4] [7]
Ermine Street was one of the radial routes from Londinium , with its southern terminus at Bishopsgate - one of the gates in the ruined London Wall. The gate stood where the A10 intersects with the A1211 Wormwood Street/Camomile Street. It was demolished in 1760. [19]
At Royston, where the A10 bears north-east towards Cambridge, Ermine Street crosses the Icknield Way (between Wiltshire and Norfolk).
North of Royston, Ermine Street runs north towards Durovigutum (Godmanchester), Lindum Colonia (Lincoln) and Eboracum (York). [7] [8] [9]
Bishopsgate lends its name to the street carrying the A10 between Leadenhall Street and Spital Square.
The A10 carries the name Ermine Street between Buntingford and Buckland in Hertfordshire. Ermine Street also lends its name to a ward in the North Hertfordshire council area, which is crossed by the A10 London Road (south of Royston). [7] [8] [9] [20]
The A10 first featured in the Ministry of Transport List of Class I and Class II Roads and Numbers 1922-1923. According to The Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts (SABRE) wiki, the A10 was designated the route London (Kingsland Road - Stamford Hill) - Tottenham - Ware - Royston - Cambridge - Ely - King's Lynn. [21] [22]
The A10 is one of two routes designated to run between London and Cambridge - the other being the M11 "London to Cambridge" motorway. The southern terminus of the M11 links with the A406 North Circular Road and A12 in the Woodford area of the London Borough of Redbridge. The two routes meet at the M11 junction 11, west of Trumpington. The motorway opened between 1975 and 1980. [23] [24] [25] [26]
The 1922 A10 route has been bypassed several times, with new road numbers on the original route. These include:
The M11 is a 55 miles (89 km) motorway that runs north from the North Circular Road (A406) in South Woodford to the A14, northwest of Cambridge, England. Originally proposed as a trunk road as early as 1915, various plans were considered throughout the 1960s, with final construction being undertaken between 1975 and 1980. The motorway was opened in stages, with the first stage between junctions 7 and 8 opening in June 1975, and the completed motorway becoming fully operational in February 1980. Running from Woodford to Girton, the motorway provides direct access to Harlow, Cambridge and since 2002, greatly improved access to London Stansted Airport.
Ermine Street is a major Roman road in England that ran from London (Londinium) to Lincoln and York (Eboracum). The Old English name was Earninga Strǣt (1012), named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred, around Arrington, Cambridgeshire, and Royston, Hertfordshire. "Armingford", and "Arrington" share the same Old English origin. The original Celtic and Roman names for the route remain unknown. It is also known as the Old North Road from London to where it joins the A1 Great North Road near Godmanchester.
The A1, also known as the Great North Road, is the longest numbered road in the United Kingdom, at 410 miles (660 km). It connects London, the capital of England, with Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The numbering system for A-roads, devised in the early 1920s, was based around patterns of roads radiating from two hubs at London and Edinburgh. The first number in the system, A1, was given to the most important part of that system: the road from London to Edinburgh, joining the two central points of the system and linking the UK's (then) two mainland capital cities. It passes through or near north London, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Baldock, Letchworth Garden City, Biggleswade, Eaton Socon, Buckden, Peterborough, Stamford, Grantham, Newark-on-Trent, Retford, Doncaster, Pontefract, York, Wetherby, Ripon, Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Morpeth, Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Royston is a town and civil parish in the District of North Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England.
The A14 is a major trunk road in England, running 127 miles (204 km) from Catthorpe Interchange, a major intersection at the southern end of the M6 and junction 19 of the M1 in Leicestershire to the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk. The road forms part of the unsigned Euroroutes E24 and E30. It is the busiest shipping lane in East Anglia carrying anything from cars to large amounts of cargo between the UK and Mainland Europe.
The A12 is a major road in Eastern England. It runs north-east/south-west between London and the coastal town of Lowestoft in the north-eastern corner of Suffolk, following a similar route to the Great Eastern Main Line until Ipswich. A section of the road between Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth became part of the A47 in 2017. Between the junctions with the M25 and the A14, the A12 forms part of the unsigned Euroroute E30. Unlike most A roads, this section of the A12, together with the A14 and the A55, has junction numbers as if it were a motorway.
The N11 road is a national primary road in Ireland, running for 129 km (80 mi) along the east side of Ireland from Dublin to Wexford. It passes close to Bray, Greystones, Wicklow, Arklow, Gorey, and Enniscorthy. Beyond Wexford, the route continues to Rosslare as the N25. The road forms part of European route E01. As of July 2019 the N11/M11 is of dual carriageway or motorway standard from Dublin as far as Oilgate in County Wexford.
The North Circular Road is a 25.7-mile-long (41.4 km) ring road around Central London in England. It runs from Chiswick in the west to Woolwich in the east via suburban North London, connecting various suburbs and other trunk roads in the region. Together with its counterpart, the South Circular Road, it mostly forms a ring road around central London, except for crossing of the River Thames, which is done by the Woolwich Ferry.
East Hertfordshire is one of ten local government districts in Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire. The largest town in the district is Bishop's Stortford, and the other main towns are Ware, Buntingford and Sawbridgeworth. At the 2011 Census, the population of the district was 137,687. By area it is the largest of the ten local government districts in Hertfordshire. The district borders North Hertfordshire, Stevenage, Welwyn Hatfield and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, and Epping Forest, Harlow and Uttlesford in Essex.
The A11 is a major trunk road in England. It originally ran roughly north east from London to Norwich, Norfolk. It now consists of a short section in Inner London and a much longer section in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk. The lengthy section between these was renumbered as a result of the opening of the M11 in the 1970s and then the A12 extension in 1999.
The A414 is a major road in England, which connects the towns of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire and Maldon in Essex. The road commences at the A41, at a junction west of Hemel, and travels through the town to junction 8 of the M1 motorway at Buncefield. From there, it runs parallel to the M1 until junction 7, heading south of St Albans and east through Hatfield and Hertford. The road then crosses the A10 and into Essex; it travels through Harlow, Chipping Ongar and Chelmsford, before terminating at Maldon.
The A1309 is a short road which links the two ends of the A10 to north and south of Cambridge city centre in Cambridgeshire, England. It was numbered as part of the A10 prior to the construction of the Cambridge Western Bypass and the Northern Bypass.
The A249 is a road in Kent, England, running from Maidstone to Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey. It mainly functions as a link between the M2 and M20 motorways, and for goods vehicle traffic to the port at Sheerness.
The A120 is an A-road in England, which runs between Puckeridge in Hertfordshire and Harwich in Essex.
The A505 is a road in the East of England. It follows part of the route of the Icknield Way and the corresponding Icknield Way Path and runs from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire to the A11 Abington Interchange North in Cambridgeshire.
The London Ringways were a series of four ring roads planned in the 1960s to circle London at various distances from the city centre. They were part of a comprehensive scheme developed by the Greater London Council (GLC) to alleviate traffic congestion on the city's road system by providing high-speed motorway-standard roads within the capital, linking a series of radial roads taking traffic into and out of the city.
The M12 motorway was a planned motorway starting in north-east London and joining the A12 road in Essex. The 1960s scheme would have started at a junction with the M11 motorway and North Circular and ended near Brentwood, Chelmsford, or at the proposed new Maplin Sands airport; the motorway was part of the ambitious London Ringways plan to build motorways throughout London. Although most of the Ringways plan was cancelled in 1969 the M12 motorway project was still included in the Roads for Prosperity white paper published in 1989 along with major proposed developments to the A12 road. It was not formally cancelled until 30 March 1994 by the Secretary of State for Transport, John MacGregor.
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The A1 in London is the southern part of the A1 road. It starts at Aldersgate in the City of London, passing through the capital to Borehamwood on the northern fringe of Greater London, before continuing to Edinburgh. The road travels through the City and three London boroughs: Islington, Haringey and Barnet, which include the districts of Islington, Holloway, Highgate, Hendon and Mill Hill, and travels along Upper Street and Holloway Road, crossing the North Circular Road in Hendon, a district in the London Borough of Barnet.
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