A10 road
The
A10 (or the
Great Cambridge Road) is a major
road in
England. Starting at
London Bridge, it runs northward through the
City of London (along the sections known as
King William Street,
Gracechurch Street,
Bishopsgate), then through
Shoreditch (where it forms
Shoreditch High Street),
Stoke Newington (forming
Stoke Newington High Street),
Tottenham and
Enfield. After the road's junction with the
M25 motorway at
Waltham Cross, the road
bypasses
Cheshunt,
Hoddesdon,
Ware and
Buntingford.
From Ware, the road used to pass through several
Hertfordshire villages such as
Wadesmill and
Thundridge, but these are now bypassed by a 4-
mile extension of the
dual carriageway from
London which opened in late
2004. The bypass would have opened sooner, but the lime-stabilised subsoil heaved and cracks opened up in the road surface. A substantial portion of the road surface had to be relaid.
From Buntingford, the road runs through
Royston and up to the
M11 motorway at
Cambridge where it turns into the
A1309. The A10 reappears to the north of Cambridge at the
Milton Interchange of the
A14 and heads north, bypassing
Ely and
Downham Market before reaching the coast at
King's Lynn in
Norfolk. Its northern section runs up the
valley of the
River Great Ouse.
Parts of the section from London to Royston follow the route of the Roman
Ermine Street.
The A10 disects
Cheshunt in two and has become prone to
traffic congestion in particular due to the local roads cross it. In the early 1990's many properties beside the road were
compulsory purchased for a relief scheme that involved converting the A10 to a triple
carriageway, and sinking it below ground level through
Cheshunt. However the scheme was dropped, and the road remains a
dual carriageway*
Society for All British Road Enthusiasts entry for the A10
