A47 road

The A47 is a trunk road in England linking Birmingham to Great Yarmouth (although most of the section between Birmingham and Nuneaton has been reclassified as the B4114).

Related Topics:
Trunk road - England - Birmingham - Great Yarmouth

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From west to east, the road goes through:

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• Birmingham
• reclassified as B4114
• Nuneaton
• Hinckley
• Earl Shilton
• Leicester
• subsumed into inner ringroad
• Uppingham
• Peterborough
• Wisbech
• King's Lynn
• Norwich
• forms new southern by-pass (previously formed outer ringroad)
• Great Yarmouth

The two-mile £2.5m Billesdon Bypass opened in October 1986. The transmitter for Leicester Sound is situated here. The one-kilometre £1.2m East Norton Bypass, in Leicestershire, opened in December 1990. The next ten miles are in Rutland. The two-mile £1.9m Wardley Hill Improvement opened in October 1987. The one-and-a-half-mile £1.4m Uppingham Bypass opened in June 1982. This is the home of Uppingham School. At Morcott, there is a popular Little Chef. The Duddington Bypass, in Northamptonshire, opened in 1975. The road crosses the River Welland. This section has a busy roundabout where it meets the south-west/north-east corridor A43. From here to the A1, the road goes close to the runway of RAF Wittering, in Cambridgeshire. The dual-carriageway £9m Ailsworth-Castor Bypass opened in September 1991.

Related Topics:
Leicester Sound - Leicestershire - Rutland - Uppingham - Uppingham School - Morcott - Little Chef - Duddington - Northamptonshire - River Welland - A43 - A1 - RAF Wittering - Cambridgeshire - Castor

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Around Peterborough, the Peterborough Longthorpe GSJ opened in December 1987. The £1.2m Peterborough Westwood GSJ opened in January 1987. This section of road is called the Soke Parkway. When this was first built, in the mid-1970s, the A47 followed what is now the A1139 Paston Parkway.

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The three-mile £7.2m Eye Bypass opened in October 1991, diverting traffic from the Paston Parkway. There are plans for a three-mile dual-carriageway Thorney Bypass. The half-mile £3.7m Guyhirn Diversion opened in October 1990. The five-mile £6m Wisbech/West Walton Bypass opened in Autumn 1984. The six-mile £23m dual-carriageway Walpole Highway/Tilney High End Bypass, in Norfolk, opened in summer 1996.

Related Topics:
Thorney - Wisbech - Norfolk

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From Kings Lynn, the road goes over the River Great Ouse, near to some sugar beet factories on a very busy dual-carriageway built in the 1970s. The A17 and A10 have their terminus here, and cause congestion. The half-mile £2.8m Narborough Bypass, in Norfolk, opened in November 1992. The five-mile £5m part-dual-carriageway Swaffham Bypass opened in June 1981. The seven-mile £5m part-dual-carriageway East Dereham Bypass opened in spring 1978. The three-mile £9m East Dereham-North Tuddenham Improvement opened in August 1992, being built on an old disused railway line. The dual-carriageway £62m Norwich Bypass opened in September 1992. The section from the end of this bypass to Blofield, the one-mile £1.2m Postwick-Blofield Dualling, was opened in November 1987 The one-mile £4m dual-carriageway Blofield Bypass opened in February 1983. The three-mile £7.1m dual-carriageway Acle Bypass opned in March 1989. The northern section of the two-mile £19m Great Yarmouth Western Bypass opened in March 1986, and the southern section opened in May 1985.

Related Topics:
River Great Ouse - Sugar beet - A17 - A10 - Swaffham - East Dereham - Acle - Great Yarmouth

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