North Circular Road

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North Circular Road
The route of the North Circular Road in Greater London, with the South Circular Road and Woolwich Ferry
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Length25.7 mi[1] (41.4 km)
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HistoryOpened: 1910
Completed: c. 1930
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CountryUnited Kingdom
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The North Circular Road (officially the A406 and sometimes known as simply the North Circular) 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. It connects lots of suburbs and other trunk roads in the region. Together with the South Circular Road, it forms a ring road around central London. This ring road does not make a full circuit of the city. Instead, it is C-shaped. This is because the crossing over the River Thames in the east is made on the Woolwich Ferry.

Route

The North Circular Road is the northern part of a ring-road around Central London.[2] It has seen much more investment than the South Circular Road, and it runs on much wider roads. Existing houses were demolished for the North Circular Road.[3][4] The route has other names at some points. However, it is mostly called the North Circular for route planning purposes. The route is mostly grade-separated dual carriageway from the A40 at Hanger Lane to the A13 in Beckton except for the Drury Way/Brentfield Road junction, the Golders Green Road/Brent Street junction, Henlys Corner and the section from Bounds Green to Green Lanes.[5] In worse sections, the original names such as Gunnersbury Avenue and Bowes Road are used.

Junctions

The North Circular Road has a lots of different junctions that connect to other roads. Some are complex and grade-separated, like at Charlie Brown's Roundabout near Woodford. Some are at-grade junctions with traffic lights. The original road only had at-grade junctions. Many of these were improved and grade separated in the late 1970s and early 1980s.[6]

Current junctions

Name Destinations Notes
Chiswick flyover A315 / A4 / A205  Chiswick, Kew, Brentford, Staines-upon-Thames, Hounslow
Gunnersbury Park B4491 / A4000  South Ealing, Shepherd's Bush, Acton
A4020  Ealing, Southall, Acton The historic London – Oxford postal route at Ealing Common
Hanger Lane Gyratory A40 / A4005  Greenford, Perivale, Alperton, Park Royal, Acton Northolt
A404  Harrow, Wembley, Harlesden Near Stonebridge Park station
Brent Park, Superstores, Wembley Stadium, Industrial Estate
A4088  Willesden, Neasden, Kingsbury
Staples Corner M1 / A5  The NORTH, Watford, Harrow, Kilburn, Cricklewood, Edgware, West Hendon A5 is the historic Watling Street from London to Wroxeter
Brent Cross A41 to A1Kilburn, Cricklewood, Hendon, Hatfield
A502 to A1  Mill Hill, Golders Green, Hampstead
Henlys Corner A1 to M1  The NORTH, Watford, Mill Hill, Hendon West end of merge with the A1
Henlys Corner A598  Finchley, Golders Green A special pedestrian crossing for Jews to use on the Sabbath is located here[7]
Henlys Corner A1  Central London, Holloway East end of merge with A1
A1000  North Finchley, East Finchley, Chipping Barnet The historic Great North Road
Colney Hatch Junction B550  Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, Retail Park
Hobart Corner A109 / A1004  New Southgate, Whetstone, Southgate
Bounds Green interchange A1110 / B1452  New Southgate, Southgate A regular congestion hotspot where traffic must narrow to single carriageway and perform a 90 degree turn.[8] Transport for London have earmarked the junction for improvement.[9]
Clockhouse Junction A105  Palmers Green, Wood Green, Hornsey
Great Cambridge Road Roundabout A10 to M25 / A111  Central London, Dalston, Hertford, Enfield, Potters Bar, Ware, Royston, Cambridge
Crooked Billet Roundabout A112  Chingford, Walthamstow, Highams Park
Waterworks A104 to A503 / M11Woodford, Leytonstone, Walthamstow
Charlie Brown's A1400 / A113  Gants Hill, Chigwell Restricted access; eastbound exit and westbound entrance. The original Charlie Brown's was the roundabout underneath this junction. It was named after a pub next to the roundabout, which was demolished in 1972.[5][10]
Charlie Brown's M11  Stansted, Cambridge
Redbridge Roundabout A12  Central London, Stratford, Chelmsford, Romford Also the location of Redbridge tube station
A118  Manor Park, Ilford The historic Roman Road from London to Colchester
A124  East Ham, Barking, London
Beckton Roundabout A13 / A1020 (North Circular) to M25 / A117  Tilbury, Dartford Crossing, Woolwich Ferry, Central London, Blackwall Tunnel

Former junctions

Name Destinations Notes
Waterworks Corner A104 / A503 To avoid Epping Forest, the original build of the North Circular met the A104 at a different location by a water works northeast of Walthamstow.[11]
Gants Hill A12 / A123 Gants Hill Underground station is also at this location.


References

  1. "Gunnersbury Avenue to North Circular Road, Barking". Google Maps. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  2. Griffin, Christopher (2008). Nomads Under the Westway: Irish Travellers, Gypsies and Other Traders in West London. University of Hertfordshire Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-902-80654-9.
  3. Weinreb 2008.
  4. "A406 timeline: a half century of broken promises". Enfield Independent. 8 October 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  5. Dunn, Joseph (7 April 2014). "Great drives: The North Circular, London". Sunday Times Driving. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  6. "North Circular Road, Ealing". Hansard. 15 December 1978. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  7. "Work on Henlys Corner junction improvement scheme to begin in February 2011". Transport for London. 28 January 2011. Archived from the original on 17 April 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  8. "Six months of traffic chaos looms as works reduce Wood Green High Road to one lane". Tottenham and Wood Green Journal. 1 September 2014. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  9. "Walking". Transport for London. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  10. "Mystery of the Charlie Brown Roundabout". Go Britannia travel guide. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  11. The Times Road Map of London (Map). The Times. 1926. Retrieved 2 March 2015.

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