A1023 road

A1023
Route information
Length	4.5 mi (7.2 km)
Major junctions
Southwest end	M25 Junction 28
Major intersections	M25 A12 A128 A129 A12
Northeast end	A12
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Primary destinations	Brentwood, Shenfield
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones
← A1022 → A1024

The A1023 is an A-road in Essex, England that goes from junction 28 on the M25 ^{[location 1]} through Brentwood to the A12.^{[location 2]} The road was originally a Roman road which linked London and Colchester.^[1] It opened in 1966, after the A12 was re-routed along the current Brentwood Bypass.^[2][3]

Route

The A1023 starts at junction 28 of the M25 (also known as Brook Street Interchange),^{[location 1]} and then heads northeast as Brook Street into Brentwood. While Going through Brentwood the road changes name to London Road,^{[location 3]} High Street,^{[location 4]} then Shenfield road, where it meets the A128 at Wilson's Corner junction.^{[location 5]} At Wilson's Corner northbound traffic follows Ongar Road towards Chipping Ongar and the A414, whilst southbound traffic follows Ingrave Road towards Ingrave and then on to the Southend Arterial Road (A127). The road then continues northeast from Wilson's Corner, where it meets with the western end of the A129,^{[location 6]} which goes towards Sheffield station, Hutton and Billericay. It then continues as Chelmsford Road until it meets the A12 again at the Maryland Interchange.^{[location 2]}

History

When the roads were first numbered in 1922 the A1023 number was originally given to a small 1.5 mile (2.4 kilometers) long road in Norfolk, going through Crimplesham from the A134^{[location 7]} to the A1122 (then numbered the A47).^{[location 8][4]} The road was reclassified as a spur of the A134 in the 1935 Road numbering revision,^[5] but later became unclassified sometime after 1970.^[6] In 1966, after the A12 was re-routed along the current Brentwood Bypass, the former route was allocated the A1023, with the west end of the road slightly shifted to make room for a new roundabout.^[7][8]

Junctions

County	Location	mi	km	Coord	Destinations	Notes
Greater London	—	0	0	[coord 1]	M25  – Dartford crossing, Stansted airport, Watford A12  – London, Romford, Chelmsford
Essex	Brentwood	2.0	3.2	[coord 2]	B185 – Brentwood railway station, Great Warley
		1.6	2.6	[coord 3]	A128  – Ingrave, Brentwood railway station, Chipping Ongar
		3.0	4.8	[coord 4]	A129  – Billericay, Hutton, Shenfield railway station
	—	4.5	7.2	[coord 5]	A12  – London, Harwich, Chelmsford B1002 – Mountnessing, Ingatestone
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

*Ceremonial Counties

Coordinate list

1. 51.6084°N 0.2640°E / 51.6084; 0.2640 (Junction 28 of M25)
2. 51.6192°N 0.2978°E / 51.6192; 0.2978 (Junction between A1023 and B185)
3. 51.6213°N 0.3057°E / 51.6213; 0.3057 (Junction between A1023 and A128)
4. 51.6305°N 0.3211°E / 51.6305; 0.3211 (Junction between A1023 and A129)
5. 51.6455°N 0.3439°E / 51.6455; 0.3439 (Junction 12 of A12)

References

Locations

1. 51.6084°N 0.2640°E / 51.6084; 0.2640 ("Junction 28 of M25")
2. 51.6455°N 0.3439°E / 51.6455; 0.3439 ("Junction 12 of A12")
3. 51.6122°N 0.2756°E / 51.6122; 0.2756 ("A1023 becomes London Road")
4. 51.6184°N 0.2945°E / 51.6184; 0.2945 ("A1023 becomes High Street")
5. 51.6213°N 0.3057°E / 51.6213; 0.3057 ("junction between A1023 and A128")
6. 51.6306°N 0.3211°E / 51.6306; 0.3211 ("junction between A1023 and A129")
7. 52.6077°N 0.4603°E / 52.6077; 0.4603 ("Junction between old A1023 and A134")
8. 52.6095°N 0.4314°E / 52.6095; 0.4314 ("Junction between old A1023 and A1122")

Other

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