A roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
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The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain
List of A roads in zone 1 in Great Britain beginning north of the Thames, east of the A1 (roads beginning with 1).
Single- and double-digit roads
Road | From | To | Notes |
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Central London (St Paul's Cathedral) |
Edinburgh | Often called the "Great North Road". London sections of road covered by separate A1 road (London) article |
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Central London (The Monument) |
King's Lynn | Section round Cambridge overlaps M11 and A14 |
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Central London (Aldgate) |
Norwich | Section between Bow and Stump Cross (M11 J9) superseded by A12 and M11. Section round Newmarket overlaps A14 |
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Central London (Blackwall) |
Great Yarmouth | Section round Ipswich overlaps A14 |
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Central London (Aldgate) |
Shoeburyness | |
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M6 motorway | Felixstowe Port | Originally the A14 was the Old North Road, which forms part of the Roman Road known as Ermine Street. It ran from Royston in Hertfordshire through Huntingdon to meet with the A1 south of Alconbury. The Royston-Huntingdon section is now the A1198; the section north of Huntingdon is a spur of the A14 although no number appears on signs. |
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Norman Cross near Peterborough | Hessle | |
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Grimsby | Peterborough* | New stretch between Spalding and Peterborough now open, the previous road from Spalding to Stamford becoming the A1175. |
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Newark on Trent | Kings Lynn | |
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Doncaster | Ludborough | |
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Doncaster | Seaton Burn |
Triple-digit roads
Four-digit roads (10xx)
Four-digit roads (11xx)
Four-digit roads (12xx and higher)
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Moorfields Eye Hospital | Highbury & Islington station | ||
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Canonbury | Alexandra Palace | ||
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Central London (Aldgate) | Central London (Shoreditch | Part of the London Inner Ring Road | |
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Tower Hill | Poplar | Includes the Limehouse Link tunnel in Docklands. Number seems also to refer to Butcher Row, a spur that connects to the A13 at Limehouse | |
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South Hackney | Limehouse | Burdett Road and Grove Road, crosses A11 at Mile End station. | |
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Limehouse | Blackwall | This is a crescent-shaped round around the Isle of Dogs. If you actually want to go from Limehouse to Blackwall you would use the A1261 | |
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Hackney | Dalston | Graham Road with Western boundary at Queensbridge Road where the A104 temporarily heads northbound. | |
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Shoreditch | Cambridge Heath | ||
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Shoreditch | Bethnal Green | ||
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Barbican | Whitechapel | ||
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Ipswich | Martlesham | Former route of A12, prior to Ipswich Southern/Eastern by-pass | |
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Washington | Central Sunderland | ||
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Colchester | A12/A120 | Former A12 alignment through northern Colchester. See also A120 | |
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Basildon | Basildon | Cranes Farm Road, parallels the A127 and the A1321 between the A176 and A132 roads | |
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Copmanthorpe | A64 | York Outer Ring Road (Western & Northern) | |
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Thorpe Willoughby | Barlby | ||
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Becontree | Dagenham | Formerly numbered A1112 | |
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Norwich | Thorpe St Andrew | Previously part of the A47 prior to the construction of the Norwich southern bypass. | |
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Great Yarmouth | Great Yarmouth | Shares the same number with Scartho Road and a stretch of Louth Road to the south of Grimsby. See Anomalously numbered roads in Great Britain | |
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Benfleet | Howe Green | Previously the A130 | |
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Selby Fork | Brotherton | Previously part of the A1 | |
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Bishops Stortford | Bishops Stortford | ||
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Romford | Romford | ||
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Peterborough | Peterborough | ||
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Limehouse | Leamouth | Aspen Way, East India Dock Link tunnel, and West India Dock Road in Docklands | |
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Sunderland | Monkwearmouth | ||
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Jarrow | South Shields | John Reid Road, South Shields southern ring road | |
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Trumpington | Stump Cross | Former A130. | |
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Westley | Southgate Bridge | ||
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Hardwick | Newmarket | Former A45 | |
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Six Mile Bottom | Water Hall | Former A11 | |
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Stockton-on-Tees | Stockton-on-Tees | ||
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Dagenham | North Stifford | Former A13 alignment, with unclassified Lodge Lane connecting to the A1013. Eastern section was the main route till the 1980s. Western section was the main route until as recently as the late 1990s. | |
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Girton | Haverhill | Formerly A604 and before that A132 | |
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Stowmarket | Combs Ford | ||
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Trumpington, Cambridgeshire | Milton, Cambridgeshire | Former A10 alignment | |
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South Hornchurch | South Hornchurch | Marsh Way, link road between A13 and A1306. Briefly part of A13 during completion of Thames Gateway 1998-9. | |
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Basildon | Basildon | Broadmayne, parallels the A1235 between the A176 and A132 roads | |
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Stowmarket | Combs Ford | ||
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North Circular Charlie Brown's Roundabout | Gants Hill | Formerly A406, but this section was only briefly considered part of the North Circular, the latter historically using the A104/A114/A116/A117 until 1987. | |
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Haddenham | Witcham | ||
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Lincoln | South Hykeham | ||
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Scampton | Marton | Forms the eastern section of the Roman road from Ermine Street to Bawtry, fording the River Trent at Littleborough (the Roman settlement of Segelocum), then onto the Roman Fort at Doncaster (Danum). |
References
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