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The '''A11''' is a major Road in England. It runs roughly north east from London to Norwich, Norfolk, although it apparently disappears as it goes through the London_Borough_of_Redbridge and the county of Essex, and again on the Newmarket bypass.
==City of London==
Originally, the A11 started at the Bank_of_England in the City_of_London, next to Bank_tube_station, and went eastward along Cornhill and Leadenhall_Street, past Aldgate_Pump and along Aldgate. All this part has been declassified and is now a minor road. Thus the A11 now starts at Aldgate, just inside the eastern boundary of the City_of_London. The first stretch is Aldgate High Street, passing south of Aldgate_tube_station. Traffic is one way westbound.
==Tower Hamlets==
East of Aldgate station, the A11 enters the London_Borough_of_Tower_Hamlets and the East_End_of_London. It becomes Whitechapel High Street (containing Aldgate_East_tube_station). For most of its length, this stretch has one-way eastbound traffic, but traffic becomes two-way just before the eastern end of Whitechapel High Street. The A11 becomes Whitechapel_Road, famous from the British version of the Monopoly board. It passes through Whitechapel, past Whitechapel_tube_station and the Royal_London_Hospital. It becomes Mile_End Road, passing Stepney_Green_tube_station and Mile_End_tube_station. Next, it becomes Bow Road, passing Bow_Road_tube_station and Bow_Church_DLR_station.
There is now a flyover over the Bow_Interchange roundabout, a junction with the A12. At the end of the flyover, the A11 crosses into the London_Borough_of_Newham.
==Newham==
The A11 now briefly becomes a Dual_carriageway as it crosses the valley of the River_Lea. (Originally, there was a ''strait'' or narrow ''ford'' here, which gave its name to Stratford.) This dual carriageway section ends in a one-way system marking Stratford town centre. The eastbound road, Great Eastern Road, passes Stratford_station. The westbound road is called Broadway and The Grove; the latter road runs north-south. At the end of the one-way system, The Grove becomes two-way, still going north. The A11 then becomes Leytonstone Road; Maryland_railway_station is on the corner where the name change occurs.
==Waltham Forest==
The A11 crosses from the London_Borough_of_Newham into the London_Borough_of_Waltham_Forest and becomes High Road Leytonstone. At the northern end of this stretch is the Green_Man_Roundabout, where it crosses the A12 again.
==Redbridge==
The A11 now apparently disappears. This is because, following the opening of the M11_motorway, the A11 was re-numbered to make it seem a less important road and encourage traffic to use the M11. Its former route goes through the London_Borough_of_Redbridge. It becomes the A1199 and is called Hollybush Hill, Woodford Road and High Road Woodford_Green. It crosses over the A406 at Gates_Corner, but since the A406 was widened when the M11 was constructed there are no slip roads for interchange and the old A11 passes over the top. It merges with the A104 Woodford New Road by the Statue of Winston_Churchill and becomes the A104 High Road Woodford Green. Just before leaving London for Essex, it becomes A104 Epping New Road.
==Essex==
Shortly after entering Essex, the A104 enters Epping_Forest. After a while, it reaches the Wake_Arms_Roundabout and becomes the B1393. Just after leaving the forest, it crosses the M25_motorway (which is in a tunnel at that point), then goes through Epping. The B1393 ends at junction 7 of the M11, and the route of the A11 goes along the A414 through the eastern suburbs of Harlow. The road then becomes the A1184 and goes through Sawbridgeworth.
Just south of Bishop's_Stortford, the A1184 turns sharp left to become part of the Bishop's Stortford bypass, but the route of the A11 becomes the B1383 and goes through the town and through Stansted_Mountfitchet and Quendon. It crosses the M11 and passes Audley_End. The B1383 ends at 9A (Stump_Cross), the end of a spur that comes off the M11 at Junction 9, near Great_Chesterford.
==Cambridgeshire and Suffolk==
Image:052217_16eb72a3.jpg Junction near to Babraham, Cambridgeshire.]]
The road enters Cambridgeshire, the road number A11 re-appears and the A11 is now a Trunk_road. It roughly follows the route of a Roman_road for the remainder of its length.
The A11 formerly went through Newmarket; that stretch is now the A1304. The Newmarket bypass is a dual carriageway. The western end is the A11, but most of its length is the A14. The A11 re-appears north-east of Newmarket, and remains a dual carriageway until Mildenhall. The road bypasses Mildenhall before entering Norfolk in the Thetford_Forest.
==Norfolk==
The A11 is then single carriageway to Thetford. The road continues, bypassing Thetford, Attleborough and Wymondham, although up until recently it ran through the centre of Thetford, causing heavy traffic on the route. It also passes the Snetterton_Motor_Racing_Circuit. On entering Norwich, it becomes single carriageway again and is called Newmarket Road. It terminates at the St Stephens Street Roundabout near the city centre.
Recently, various sections of the A11 between Norwich and the junction with the M11 in Cambridgeshire have been upgrated to Dual_carriageway in an ongoing effort by the Highways_Agency to modernise the City's primary road connection with London. On 17_August 2005, it was announced that works to dual a 3.3 mile section of the Attleborough bypass will soon be underway.Highways Agency: Newsroom This move is strongly criticized by Transport_2000 for the effects it couldhave on some notified sites, such as Rex_Graham_nature_reserve and other parts of the Breckland Special_Area_of_Conservation.Eastern Region, ''Roads to Ruin: The environmental impact of Labour’s new roads programme.'' Transport 2000, 2001. ISBN 0-907347-59-2
Norwich is currently the largest population centre in the UK not to be connected to any other centre by an unbroken dual carriageway.
==References==
==External links==
*Society for All British Road Enthusiasts entry for the A11
* Highways Agency - A11 Strategy: Cambridge to Norwich
* Roads to Ruin - Critique of planned Regional road improvements
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