A12 road (England)

The A12 was formed in 1922 as part of the Great Britain road numbering scheme,{{cn|date=September 2024}} and initially the route went from Stratford to Gallows Corner along the present A118 road{{cite web |url= http://maps.nls.uk/view/75202914 |title=Bartholomew's "Half Inch Maps" of England and Wales, 1919-1924, Sheet 25 |year= 1924 |access-date=21 November 2016}} before continuing to Great Yarmouth. This section in London was rerouted to run on Eastern Avenue by the mid-1940s,{{cite web |url= http://maps.nls.uk/view/101457167 |title=Essex nLXXIX.NE (includes: Hornchurch; Noak Hill; Romford; Upminster.) |date=c. 1946 |access-date=21 November 2016}} and extended to follow the current route from Blackwall Tunnel along the East Cross Route, (previously the A102(M) & A106), the M11 link road in 1999.{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=w1uFOwAACAAJ&q=%22List+of+class+I+and+class+II+roads+and+numbers%22 |title=List of class I and class II roads and numbers: (Ministry of Transport classification 1922–1923) |author=Great Britain. Ministry of Transport. Roads Department|publisher=H.M.S.O.|year= 1923 |access-date=4 August 2011}}{{cite web |url= http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=1922_Road_Lists_-_A1_-_A99 |title=1922 Road Lists – A1 – A99 – Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki |work=sabre-roads.org.uk |year=2011 |access-date=4 August 2011}}{{cite web |url= http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A12_history |title=A12 history – Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki |work=sabre-roads.org.uk |year=2011 |access-date=4 August 2011}}

The route from London to Essex has long been important, with Old Ford being the location of an ancient Celtic crossing of the River Lea. The route was altered slightly by the Romans who created a paved road from London to Colchester, which was part of Inter V on the Antonine Itinerary,{{cite web |url=http://www.roman-britain.co.uk/classical-references/the-antonine-itinerary/ |title=RBO – Antonine Itinerary |work=roman-britain.co.uk |access-date=10 May 2021 |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507170350/http://www.roman-britain.co.uk/classical-references/the-antonine-itinerary/ |url-status=dead }} and parts of this were used by a turnpike road, the Great Essex Road.{{cite web |url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=12951&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2= |title=AIM25 collection description |work=aim25.ac.uk |year=2011 |access-date=5 August 2011 |archive-date=30 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330121334/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=12951&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2= |url-status=dead }} The crossing of the Lea moved to its current location at Bow around 1110 when Matilda, wife of Henry I, ordered a distinctively bow-shaped, three-arched bridge to be built over the river.{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22742 |title=Bethnal Green: Communications |editor=T.F.T. Baker |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1998 |work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green |access-date=7 August 2011 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110629075450/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22742| archive-date= 29 June 2011 | url-status= live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42750 |title=West Ham: Rivers, bridges, wharfs and docks |editor=W.R.Powell |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1973 |work=A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 |access-date=7 August 2011 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110629175240/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42750| archive-date= 29 June 2011 | url-status= live}} A map from 1766 shows a route from London to Lowestoft which follows much of the current A12.{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_files/ENG/SFK/genmag_lon-harwich_1766.htm|title=A map of the Road from London to Harwich, Chelmsford to St. Edmonds Bury, Colchester to Great Yarmouth|publisher=Ancestry.com|year=1766|access-date=30 November 2008}}

The "Ipswich to South Town and Bungay Turnpike Trust" was established in 1785, operating between Ipswich and Great Yarmouth.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=O42098|title=Ipswich to Southtown and Bungay Turnpike Trust|publisher=National Archives}} The trust was wound up in 1872 following the arrival of the East Suffolk Line which was fully operational between the two towns in 1859.{{cite book|title=Fifty four miles to Yarmouth|author=Linda Sexton|publisher=Dunnock Books}} Following the demise of the Turnpike trust, responsibility reverted to parish councils until the new county councils took over in 1889.

File:London-Harwich 1766.jpg's 1776 map of a road from London to Great Yarmouth. The original route of the A12 mostly ran on this alignment, particularly the Roman Road from London to Colchester.]]

A new section of the A12, known as the "M11 link road" or "A12 Hackney-M11 Link Road", was built in the early 1990s in the face of the major M11 link road protest and finally opened in October 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.wussu.com/roads/r99/r9910041.htm|title=A12 – M11 Link Road Official Opening 6 October|access-date=27 December 2009}} The section of road had originally been proposed in 1903 in a Royal Commission on London Traffic. A public inquiry had been held in September 1961 and a further three public inquiries, a Parliamentary Bill and a High Court challenge had been required before the work started.{{cite web|url=http://www.nce.co.uk/missing-link/851755.article|title=Missing link|date=19 November 1998 }}

Initiated in 2000, the London to Ipswich Multi-modal study reported its conclusions late in 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/economics/rdg/multimodal/mmsinfrastructurechargingsem5496?page=16|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100203143327/http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/economics/rdg/multimodal/mmsinfrastructurechargingsem5496?page%3D16|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 February 2010|title=LONDON TO IPSWICH MULTI-MODAL STUDY – (LOIS)|publisher=Department for Transport|access-date=21 January 2010}}

In 2008 improvements were made to the junction between the A12 and the M25 to increase slip-road capacity, in particular for clockwise M25 traffic turning north onto the A12, and to ease congestion on the Brook Street Roundabout (serving the M25, A12 and local Brentwood traffic as the A1023).{{cite web|url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/3520.aspx |title=M25/A12 Brook Street Interchange, Roadworks |publisher=Highways Agency |access-date=31 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930200929/http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/3520.aspx |archive-date=30 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}

The bascule bridge in Lowestoft was built in 1972,{{cite web|url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/16483.aspx |title=A12 Bascule Bridge Refurbishment – Project Background |access-date=28 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201151633/http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/16483.aspx |archive-date=1 December 2008 |df=dmy }} and was refurbished in spring 2008.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7262636.stm|title=Anger at five-day bridge closure|access-date=28 February 2008|date=25 February 2008|author=BBC News|author-link=BBC News| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080229021607/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7262636.stm| archive-date= 29 February 2008 | url-status= live}}

Essex County Council carried out its own inquiry into the road in 2008, with work on a £12.4m scheme for a new junction on the A12 at Cuckoo Farm, Colchester adjacent to the Colchester Community Stadium, subsequently starting in December 2009. It was promoted by Essex County Council who prepared plans in 2001

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The section of A12 between Brentwood and Ipswich is classed as a major trunk road, managed by Highways England. The section between Ipswich and Lowestoft was de-trunked in 2001, with control passing to Suffolk County Council. This section is primarily single carriageway.

In 2011, at Junction 33 (Copdock Interchange) the junction was widened and improved to ease the increasing traffic flow along the road. Works ended in 2012. A widening of the section from Chelmsford to the A120 junction near Colchester is proposed with a start date in 2023/2024 and expected to complete around 2028.{{cite web|url=https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/east/a12-chelmsford-to-a120-widening-scheme/|title=A12 Chelmsford to A120 widening scheme (junctions 19 to 25)|date=28 May 2020 |publisher=National Highways|accessdate=2023-05-04}}

The Eastern Avenue was built in the 1920s as a bypass for the section between Romford and Ilford, meeting what was the A11 at Leytonstone. It was numbered A106 until the 1930s when it became part of the A12.

The {{convert|5|mi|0|adj=on}} long Brentwood bypass was opened in November 1965.{{cite journal| title = News and views – Brentwood by-pass opens| journal = Autocar |pages=1158 |date = 26 November 1965}}

A bypass for Chelmsford was first included in the roads programme in 1968. Draft orders for the southern bypass were published in 1974, however the public inquiry in 1975 suggested that the government should re-examine the appropriateness of a "central route" and the government delayed the road. In 1979 the government announced that it would proceed with the southern dual two lane route which opened in 1986.{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1985/jul/18/chelmsford-bypass#S6CV0083P0_19850718_CWA_76|title=Chelmsford Bypass|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|date=18 July 1985|access-date=28 December 2009}}

The Wickham Market bypass opened in July 1976, providing a much needed improvement to avoid the narrow, one-lane wide section of road through Wickham Market.{{Cite web|title=WICKHAM MARKET BYPASS: FATAL ACCIDENTS (Hansard, 28 July 1993)|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1993/jul/28/wickham-market-bypass-fatal-accidents|access-date=2020-07-01|date=28 July 1993|website=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)}}

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Ipswich's "Southern by-pass" via the Orwell Bridge was opened in 1982. This section, when first numbered, was part of the A45 and later designated as part of the A14.

The Martlesham bypass (previously known as the Kesgrave and Martlesham Bypass) was completed in 1987/1988{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1993/mar/12/road-building-and-management|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|date=12 March 1993|title=Road Building and Management|access-date=28 December 2009}} as was the Saxmundham bypass.{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1013/contents/made|title=The London—Great Yarmouth Trunk Road A12 (Saxmundham Bypass, Suffolk) Order 1987|work=UK Legislation|access-date=13 October 2010|quote=he route of the new trunk road is at Saxmundham in the County of Suffolk and is about 4.98 kilometres in length, from a point on the existing trunk road 120 metres southwest of its junction with Mitford Road (U2202), Benhall, in a generally northerly direction to a point on the existing trunk road 60 metres south of the southern boundary of the property known as Greenacres, Kelsale-Cum-Carlton.}}

A white paper, Roads for Prosperity, published in 1989, proposed to widen the Chelmsford Bypass and the section from Hatfield Peverel to Witham to dual 3 lane; it also proposed widening the section from Saxmundham to Lowestoft and from Wickham Market to Farnham to dual 2 lanes. It also included a 'new route from the M25 to Chelmsford' as a dual two lane road following the proposed route of the M12 motorway.{{cite book|title=Road for Prosperity}}

The Department for Transport published Trunk roads, England, into the 1990s in May 1990 which included ten proposed developments for the A12 between the M25 and Lowestoft including the M12 motorway between M25 and the Chelmsford bypass, Chelmsford bypass widening and improvements on the sections from Hatfield Peverel to Marks Tey, Four Sisters to Stratford St. Mary, Martlesham to Wickham Market, Wickham Market to Saxmundham, the bypass around Saxmundham, Saxmundham to south of Wrentham, South of Wrentham to Kessingland and the Lowestoft relief road.{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1993-04-27/Writtens-1.html|title=Written Answers to Questions Tuesday 27 April 1993|work=Hansard}}

A public inquiry in the "Saxmundham to Wickham Market bypass" was held in 1995{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1995/oct/24/a12-wickham-market-to-saxmundham-bypass|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|date=24 October 1995|title=A.12 Wickham Market to Saxmundham Bypass|access-date=18 December 2009}} but this road has not been built.

Between 1968 and 2024 Lowestoft has seen various new roads built to bypass and divert the A12 away from the historic residential streets along the coastline. In the 60s/70s Bloodmoor Roundabout / Bloodmoor Road was completed, paving the way for the new route of the A12 from the south. 1990 saw the construction of Peto Way, followed by Millennium Way in 1998 (the "Northern Relief Road") (formerly part of the A1117), however it wouldn't be until 2024 these were incorporated into the A12. In 2006, the 1.5 mile Tom Crisp Way "Southern Relief Road" opened, diverting the A12 away from the cliffs and built up Kirkely.{{Cite news |date=2006-06-27 |title=Seaside town relief road opened |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/5120424.stm |access-date=2024-09-14 |language=en-GB}} 2015 saw Millennium Way extended to connect to the A47 at Corton {{Cite web |date=2015-03-27 |title=Lowestoft Northern Spine Road officially opened by transport secretary |url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/20998917.lowestoft-northern-spine-road-officially-opened-transport-secretary/ |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=Eastern Daily Press |language=en}} and 2024 saw a new third river crossing built, the Gull Wing Bridge, which linked the northern and southern relief roads and completes the A12 bypass in Lowestoft. The entire bypass consists of single carriageway roads with modern cycle and pedestrian facilities and a mostly 40 MPH speed limit.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-07 |title=Lowestoft Gull Wing Bridge opens for first time |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2ld84r8lmo |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

During the 1940s, there were plans for a motorway between South Woodford and Brentwood, initially dubbed Radial Route 7, which later became the M12 motorway in the 1960s. This would have run from the North Circular Road in London, at the base of the current M11 motorway, joining the A12 north of Brentwood.{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1969/apr/03/m11-wanstead-and-woodford|date=3 April 1969|title=M11 (Wanstead and Woodford)|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)}} The North Circular was to be upgraded to motorway-standard as part of Ringway 2 and be designated as the M15 motorway. The M11 was to have provided a motorway standard road into central London past Ringway 1, terminating at the Angel in Islington. The M12 motorway was never built, although the junction of the M11 with the North Circular was designed to accommodate it.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

The scheme was revived in the late 1980s, and extended the northern section to the A12 near Chelmsford. Plans for the M12 motorway were withdrawn in March 1994, following a review of the trunk roads programme.{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199394/cmhansrd/1994-03-30/Debate-1.html|title=Trunk Roads (Review)|work=Hansard}}

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The A12 starts just north of the Blackwall Tunnel at a junction with the A102 and the A13. From here to past Ipswich (including the entire section through London) the road is a dual carriageway. North of the junction, the A12 heads northwards as a 2/3 lane dual carriageway mostly at street level. This stretch of road is known as the Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach. This stretch ends at the triple-layer interchange with the A11 at Bow Road where it becomes the East Cross Route. This is mainly a 3/4 lane dual carriageway built mainly on flyovers and underpasses and was built in the late 1960s, previously called the A102(M).

The road turns North Eastwards at the unfinished Hackney Wick Interchange where the carriageways split and the northbound carriageway has a right hand entrance. When the London Ringways plan was being proposed, a motorway (North Cross Route) was to end here and the M11 was meant to extend from its current terminus on the A406 through this junction and to Angel.

The A12 heads to Lea.

The section from the Lea Interchange to Leytonstone, also known as the M11 Link road, was built in the 1990s in the face of a major road protest. During this work the old section as far as Wanstead was rebuilt as a dual carriageway. Prior to that, the A12 started at the Green Man Roundabout at Leytonstone, and was single carriageway west of Wanstead Underground station. It now has an underpass at that roundabout, which again is a junction with the old A11.

East of Wanstead, the A12 runs roughly due east. It is known as Eastern Avenue, then Eastern Avenue West and Eastern Avenue East, built in the 1920s as a bypass for the section of the Roman road from Colchester to London running through Ilford and Romford (today's A118). The eastern end of the Eastern Avenue is Gallows Corner in the London Borough of Havering, just east of Romford. The junction also marks the start-point of the A127 Southend Arterial Road, also 1920s vintage. At the roundabout, an extemporised two-lane flyover still provides priority for A12 eastbound to A127 traffic (and vice versa). However, the A12 now veers roughly north-eastward, because it starts to follow the course of the Roman road; the Romans started building this road from Colchester, their original capital for the province. However, the {{convert|2.5|mi|adj=on}} stretch from Gallows Corner to the junction with the M25 motorway, called Colchester Road, is still perfectly straight. The M25 junction is number 28; it also marks where the A12 crosses the boundary from London to Essex.

Originally, the A12 followed the route of the Roman road closely and so was fairly straight, but there are now several town bypasses, so the road through Essex now has several meanders. The A12 formerly went through Brentwood, Mountnessing, Ingatestone, Margaretting, Chelmsford, Boreham, Hatfield Peverel, Witham, Kelvedon, Copford, Stanway and Colchester, but these are all now bypassed, and the A12 is a dual carriageway with mostly grade-separated junctions for its whole length in Essex.

It is this stretch of the A12, particularly between Chelmsford and Colchester, which has led to the poor reputation for surface quality of the A12. This is mainly for its bumpy or potholed surface, mostly due to worn concrete surfaces. In an ongoing process these sections are being relaid with tarmac, however some sections including the Kelvedon bypass, and between Copford and Stanway have yet to be resurfaced.

Built in 1982, the A12 Colchester bypass provides an uninterrupted dual carriageway where the national speed limit of 70 mph applies. Before 1982, the A12 took a route much closer to Colchester itself, and although still a bypass it consisted of urban single carriageways with roundabouts and pedestrian crossings. The old bypass is still in existence – the western half now forms part of the A1124 and the eastern half part of the A133.

The Suffolk stretch of the A12 starts with the Capel St Mary bypass. Originally the route from the Northern end of this bypass ran through the villages of Washbrook and Copdock and into Ipswich. When Ipswich's Southern by-pass was built in the early 1980s, the route picked up from the northern Capel St Mary junction (now numbered 32b), to pass to the West of the original line – this allowed the relevant ground works and interchanges to be completed with minimal traffic disruption. The old dual carriageway through Washbrook and Copdock is blocked off at White's Corner and was renumbered to be the C475.{{cite web|url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/news/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=1039 |title=A12 Bentley Longwood interchange (J32B) Roadworks |publisher=Highways Agency |access-date=14 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201108/http://www.highways.gov.uk/news/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=1039 |archive-date=30 September 2007 |df=dmy }} A footpath still exists which enables passage underneath the A14.

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The old route through Ipswich was renumbered as the A1214 following construction of the Ipswich Southern By-pass. The old route is more locally known by the road names, notably "London Road" to the Town Centre and Woodbridge Road out the other side. The Ipswich Southern By-pass allows the A12 to overlap the A14 to Seven Hills Interchange, {{convert|7|mi}} from the Copdock junction, where the A12 reappears and heads North. As the A14 the road passes over the large Orwell Bridge with total length of 1,287 metres. This has a summit at 43 metres above the river giving a humped feel with reduced visibility for traffic. There are at-grade roundabout junctions past BT Adastral Park at Martlesham and around the Woodbridge bypass.

For most of its remaining length through Suffolk the A12 is a mostly single carriageway road, and in many places its speed limit is less than the national limit, for example as it passes through towns and villages. During 2003/2004 some of these speed restrictions were further reduced from {{convert|40|mph|abbr=on}} to {{convert|30|mph|abbr=on}}. There are, though, a few stretches of dual carriageway between the Woodbridge bypass and Lowestoft (at Wickham Market, Saxmundham, Wangford and Kessingland). This section of the A12 was detrunked in 2001 as part of the Highways Agency's streamlining of its Trunk Road Network. Control was therefore passed to the local authorities. Just south of Blythburgh, the old milestone shows it is {{convert|100|mi}} to London.

Image:Breydon Bridge1.JPG passes over Breydon Bridge to the west of Great Yarmouth, close to where the A47 and A12 originally met.]]

The A12 ran through Lowestoft for about {{convert|5|mi|0}} on urban {{convert|30|mph|abbr=on}} limited roads. However, as of June 2006, the A12 now follows the course of the new single carriageway {{convert|40|mph}} Southern Relief Road that joins the A47 at Lowestoft Bascule Bridge. In June 2024, a small segment of the B1531 was renumbered the A12 and upgraded with a new roundabout junction and 50m of dual carriageway. The A12 is now carried over the river by a new third river crossing, the Gull Wing Bridge, where it meets the former A1117 which was renumbered as the A12. This carries the A12 via the towns Northern Relief Roads to the A47 near to Corton, where the A12 terminates.{{Cite web |title=The Lake Lothing (Lowestoft) Third Crossing Order 2020 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/474/schedule/3/made |website=Legislation.gov.uk}}{{Cite web |date=2024-06-28 |title=New £145m bridge works 'entering final stages' |url=https://www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/24415834.new-145m-gull-wing-bridge-lowestoft-nearing-completion/ |access-date=2024-06-30 |website=Lowestoft Journal |language=en}}

From February 2017, the A12 no longer reaches Norfolk as it terminates in Lowestoft at {{coord|52.473840|1.750436|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline|format=dms}}. Before February 2017, From a point just south west of the mouth of the River Yare, northwards to the point where it crosses the River Yare in Great Yarmouth, the A12 followed the route originally used by the railway line from Lowestoft to its terminus north of Breydon Bridge{{cite news|url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/news/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=497 |title=A47 at Breydon Bridge, Great Yarmouth, closed on Sunday for safety checks |date=8 March 2005 |access-date=13 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605131231/http://www.highways.gov.uk/news/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=497 |archive-date=5 June 2011 |df=dmy }} at Vauxhall Roundabout where the A47 previously terminated.{{gbmapping|cap=1|TG516081}}

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|notes=

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile2=1.8

|exit=

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|142|city1=Old Ford}}

|notes=

}}

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|mile2=2.7

|exit=

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|notes=No southwest exit

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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borough boundary

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|mile2=3.5

|exit=

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|106|city1=Leyton|city2=Dalston|location3=Hackney|location4=Stratford}}

|notes=Leyton signed north-east only, other destinations south-west only

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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borough boundary

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|mile2=5.9

|exit=

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|notes=A113 and Wanstead signed north-east only, Leyton south-west only

}}

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|mile=6.5

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}}

{{jctbridge|exit

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{{GBRint|exit

|mile=6.9

|mile2=7.1

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|notes=A406 junction 4

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|mile=8.0

|exit=

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|notes=South-eastern terminus of A1400

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|exit=

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1112|name1=Whaleborne Lane North|city1=Dagenham|city2=Marks Gate|location3=Hainault|city4=Becontree Heath|city5=Chadwell Heath}}

|notes=

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|lspan=2

|mile=12.9

|exit=

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|notes=Hornchurch, Havering-atte-Bower, and Ongar signed north-east only

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|mile=14.9

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|notes=Eastern terminus of A118

}}

{{jctbridge|exit

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|cspan=2

|location_special=Havering—Brentwood
boundary

|lspan=2

|mile=16.9

|bridge=Begin freeway

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile2=17.6

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|notes=South-western terminus of A1023; M25 junction 28

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|cspan=23

|location_special=Brentwood—Mountnessing
boundary

|mile=21.5

|mile2=22.1

|junction=12

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}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile2=24.0

|junction=13

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1002|city1=Ingatestone}}

|notes=No north-east exit

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile=26.1

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|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1002|city1=Margaretting}}

|notes=North-east exit and south-west entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile2=27.2

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|notes=B1002 and Margaretting signed south-west only; south-western terminus of A414 concurrency

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile=28.7

|mile2=29.0

|junction=16

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1007|city1=Galleywood|city2=Billericay}}

|notes=

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=concur

|location_special=Galleywood—Great Baddow
village boundary

|mile=31.2

|mile2=31.5

|junction=17

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|130|A|1114|dir1=south|dir2=north-west|location1=Southend|city2=Basildon|city3=Chelmsford}}

|notes=South-western terminus of A130 concurrency; south-eastern terminus of A1114

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile2=33.0

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}}

{{GBRint|exit

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boundary

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|mile2=35.7

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|notes=Braintree signed north-east only, To A138 and Sudbury south-west only; north-eastern terminus of A414 concurrency

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile=37.9

|mile2=38.2

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}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|mile=39.1

|junction=20B

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|notes=South-west exit and north-east entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|location_special=Hatfield Peverel—
Witham boundary

|mile=39.7

|mile2=40.0

|junction=21

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1389|city1=Witham}}

|notes=No south-west exit

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile=42.5

|mile2=42.7

|junction=22

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1389|B|1018|to2=yes|city1=Witham|city2=Maldon}}

|notes=

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|mile=43.3

|junction=

|road=Great Braxted, Silver End, Rivenhall

|notes=Rivenhall signed north-east only

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|location=Kelvedon

|mile=44.2

|junction=23

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1024|B|1023|to2=yes|city1=Kelvedon|city2=Tiptree}}

|notes=North-east exit and south-west entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|location=Feering

|mile=47.1

|junction=24

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1024|B|1023|to2=yes|city1=Kelvedon|city2=Tiptree}}

|notes=South-west exit and north-east entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

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|location=Marks Tey

|mile=49.9

|mile2=50.8

|junction=25

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|notes=South-western terminus of A120 concurrency

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location_special=Stanway

|mile=52.2

|mile2=52.6

|junction=26

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1124|city1=Halstead|location2=Stanway}}

|notes=

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|location=Colchester

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|mile=53.2

|mile2=53.5

|junction=27

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|133|city1=Colchester}}

|notes=North-east exit and south-west entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|mile=56.4

|mile2=56.8

|junction=28

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|134|location1=Sudbury|city2=Colchester}}

|notes=

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=concur

|location_special=Colchester—Langham
boundary

|mile=57.5

|mile2=58.4

|junction=29

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|notes=North-eastern terminus of A120 concurrency

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|location_special=Langham—Dedham
boundary

|lspan=3

|mile=59.4

|junction=

|road=Ardleigh, Langham

|notes=North-east exit and entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|mile=59.7

|junction=

|road=Ardleigh, Langham

|notes=South-west exit and entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|mile=60.1

|mile2=60.3

|junction=

|road=Stratford St. Mary, Dedham, Higham

|notes=North-east exit and south-west entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|county=Suffolk

|cspan=23

|location=Stratford St. Mary

|mile=61.9

|mile2=62.2

|junction=30

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1029|location1=Dedham|city2=Stratford St. Mary}}

|notes=

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location_special=Holton St Mary—
East Bergholt
boundary

|mile=63.6

|junction=31

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1070|location1=Hadleigh|city1=East Bergholt|city2=Flatford|city3=Raydon|city4=Holton St Mary}}

|notes=Flatford, Raydon, and Holton St Mary signed north-east only

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location_special=Capel St. Mary—
Bentley boundary

|mile=65.8

|mile2=66.2

|junction=

|road=Capel St. Mary, Bentley

|notes=Destinations signed south-west only

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location_special=Copdock and Washbrook—
Bentley boundary

|mile=66.7

|mile2=67.3

|junction=32B

|road=Washbrook, Copdock

|notes=

}}

{{jctbridge|exit

|location=none

|mile=68.9

|bridge=End freeway

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=concur

|location=none

|mile=68.9

|mile2=69.4

|junction=

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|14|A|1214|A|140|dir1=west|dir2=east|to3=yes|city1=Bury St Edmunds|city2=Ipswich|city3=Norwich}}

|notes=The Midlands signed south-west only; junction on A14; south-western terminus of A14 concurrency; western terminus of A1214

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location=Wherstead

|mile=70.7

|mile2=71.2

|junction=56

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|137|city1=Ipswich|city2=Manningtree|city3=Brantham}}

|notes=

}}

{{jctbridge|exit

|location_special=Wherstead—Ipswich
boundary

|mile=71.7

|mile2=72.5

|bridge=Orwell Bridge over River Orwell

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location=Ipswich

|mile=73.8

|mile2=74.2

|junction=57

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1189|city1=Ipswich|city2=Nacton|extra=hospital}}

|notes=

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=concur

|location=none

|mile=75.8

|mile2=76.0

|junction=

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|14|A|1156|dir1=east|dir2=north-west|city1=Felixstowe|city2=Ipswich|city3=Bucklesham|city4=Levington}}

|notes=North-eastern terminus of A14 concurrency; south-eastern terminus of A1156

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location=Martlesham

|mile=79.5

|junction=

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1214|road|Main Road|dir1=west|city1=Ipswich|city2=Martlesham|city3=Little Bealings|city4=Kesgrave}}

|notes=Eastern terminus of A1214

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location_special=Melton

|mile=82.8

|junction=

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1152|dir1=east|name1=Woods Lane|location1=Orford|city2=Rendlesham|location3=Woodbridge, Suffolk|location4=Melton}}

|notes=Western terminus of A1152

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|location_special=Ufford

|junction=

|mile=84.7

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1438|location1=Melton|location2=Ufford}}

|notes=Grade-separated junction; south-west exit and entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|type=incomplete

|location=Pettistree

|mile=85.7

|mile2=86.2

|junction=

|road=Pettistree, Ufford, Wickham Market

|notes=Grade-separated junction; north-east exit and entrance

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location=Hacheston

|mile=87.9

|mile2=88.3

|junction=

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|B|1116|B|1078|city1=Framlingham|city2=Wickham Market|location3=Orford|city4=Hacheston|city5=Campsea Ashe}}

|notes=Grade-separated junction

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location=Benhall

|mile=92.8

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1094|B|1069|dir1=east|to2=yes|city1=Aldeburgh|city2=Leiston|location3=Snape}}

|notes=To B1069 and Leiston signed north-east only, Snape south-west only; western terminus of A1094

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location=Yoxford

|mile=98.5

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|road|High Street|name1=A1120 west|location1=Yoxford village centre|city2=Sibton|city3=Peasenhall|city4=Framlingham}}

|notes=Framlingham signed north-east only; eastern terminus of A1120

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location_special=Darsham—Thorington
boundary

|mile=100.7

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|144|dir1=north|city1=Halesworth|city2=Bungay}}

|notes=Southern terminus of A144

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location=Blythburgh

|lspan=2

|mile=104.6

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|145|B|1123|dir1=north|to2=yes|city1=Beccles|city2=Halesworth}}

|notes=Southern terminus of A145

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|mile=104.9

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1095|dir1=east|name1=Halesworth Road|city1=Southwold|city2=Reydon}}

|notes=Western terminus of A1095

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|location=Lowestoft

|lspan=3

|mile=115.9

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1117|A|1145|road|Stradbroke Road (B1384) / Ribblesdale|A|47|A|146|dir1=north|name1=Elm Tree Road|dir2=west|name2=Castleton Avenue|to4=yes|city1=Great Yarmouth|city2=Beccles|location3=Oulton|city4=Oulton Broad|city5=Carlton Colville}}

|notes=Southern terminus of A1117; eastern terminus of A1145

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|mile=118.2

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|47|dir1=north|name1=Waveney Road|city1=Great Yarmouth}}

|notes=Southern terminus of A47

}}

{{GBRint|exit

|mile=118.8

|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1144|A|47|B|1074|name1=St. Peter's Street|to2=yes|city1=Beccles|city2=Great Yarmouth|city3=Somerleyton}}

|notes=North-eastern terminus

}}

{{jctbtm|exit|keys=incomplete, concur}}

In November 2008 the government announced a £60 million technology package including variable message signs, CCTV, Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras and automatic incident detection sensors embedded in the road surface to improve journey reliability, reduce delays and give better information to drivers.{{cite web|url=http://www.fleetdirectory.co.uk/fleet-news/index.php/2008/11/25/hoon-announces-up-to-60m-to-cut-congestion-on-a12/|title=Hoon announces up to £60m to cut congestion on A12|publisher=Department for Transport|date=25 November 2008|access-date=27 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929232908/http://www.fleetdirectory.co.uk/fleet-news/index.php/2008/11/25/hoon-announces-up-to-60m-to-cut-congestion-on-a12/|archive-date=29 September 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} Work is due to start in 2011/12.{{cite web|url=http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4061273.A12__salvation_in_sight_for__England_s_worst_road_/|title=A12: salvation in sight for 'England's worst road'|date=20 January 2009|access-date=27 December 2009|work=Daily Gazette}}

A bypass for various villages was proposed in 1986 as part of the government's 1989 Roads for Prosperity white paper which detailed many road schemes across the country. Suffolk county council considered a bypass for the villages of Farnham, Stratford St Andrew, Glemham and Marlesford for the 2006 Local Transport Plan.{{cite web|url=http://apps2.suffolk.gov.uk/cgi-bin/committee_xml.cgi?p=doc&id=1_10695&format=doc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811153754/http://apps2.suffolk.gov.uk/cgi-bin/committee_xml.cgi?p=doc&id=1_10695&format=doc |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 August 2011 |title=A1065 Brandon and A12 Four Villages Study |publisher=Suffolk County Council |access-date=12 October 2009 }} The scheme will not be implemented until after 2016.{{cite web|url=http://consult.breckland.gov.uk/file/635109|title=A1065 Brandon and A12 Four Villages Study|access-date=12 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813230302/http://consult.breckland.gov.uk/file/635109|archive-date=13 August 2011|url-status=dead}} Essex county council has put forwards plans for a bypass of Chelmsford connecting Junction 19 of the A12 to the A131.{{cite web|url=http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/vip8/ecc/ECCWebsite/content/binaries/documents/Cabinet_Report_Chelmsford_N_E_Bypass_FINAL_VERSION.15-02-07.doc|title=Cabinet Report Chelmsford NE Bypass|publisher=Essex County Council|access-date=18 November 2008}}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Plans to upgrade additional sections of the A120 into a dual two-lane carriageway were scrapped in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/4182.aspx |title=A120 Braintree to Marks Tey |access-date=11 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720092326/http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/4182.aspx |archive-date=20 July 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}

In response to this increasing congestion,{{cite web|url=http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/vip8/ecc/ECCWebsite/dis/ned.jsp?channelOid=124288&guideOid=124161&oid=112332|publisher=Essex County Council|title=A12 Inquiry media release|access-date=28 December 2009}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Essex County Council announced it would hold an A12 inquiry which was tasked with deciding how to improve the A12 and prevent the congestion.{{cite web|url=http://www.essex.gov.uk/a12inquiry|title=A12 Inquiry|publisher=Essex County Council|access-date=7 November 2008}} {{Dead link|date=November 2010|bot=H3llBot}} The inquiry was headed by Sir David Rowlands, KCB, a former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport, with professor Stephen Glaister, David Quarmby and Lord Whitty, all with significant knowledge of the transport sector.

The inquiry began taking submissions in April 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/vip8/ecc/ECCWebsite/dis/ned.jsp?oid=112332|title=A12 Inquiry, Essex County Council Media Release|access-date=3 March 2008}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Inquiry, the first ever local council sponsored inquiry into a major trunk road, heard from 24 organisations and 36 witnesses over three days including Department for Transport and Highways Agency officials, MPs, local and regional agencies and authorities, the emergency services, business and motoring groups. Comments were also received from over two hundred members of the public and through a petition organised by the Essex Chronicle newspaper. The commissions finding were published in July 2008{{cite web|url=http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/vip8/ecc/ECCWebsite/dis/ned.jsp?channelOid=124288&guideOid=124161&oid=120605|title=A12 Inquiry Final Report|access-date=26 October 2008}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and its outline recommendations are:

• the A12 as far as Ipswich should be brought up to modern dual 2-lane standards (where not already dual-3), with urgent priority given to the Hatfield Peverel – Marks Tey section
• substandard lay-bys should be replaced; one or more locations off but near the A12 should be identified for secure HGV parking, and an HGV overtaking ban should be trialled
• a wide range of short term practical measures should be introduced to improve safety and reduce driver stress, such as selective speed limits and better information for drivers, and to improve the recovery from incidents and closures
• a New Route Management Strategy should be drawn up by the Highways Agency, in collaboration with local stakeholders, and an 'A12 Alliance' should be formed to consolidate and sustain the momentum for improvement

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• [http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/roadlists/f99/12.shtml Society for All British Road Enthusiasts entry for the A12] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060521235826/http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/roadlists/f99/12.shtml |date=21 May 2006 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20180919092602/https://redrag.info/ Traffic flow on A12 Redbridge Roundabout (RedRag)]

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