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A317

The A316, known in parts as the Great Chertsey Road, is a major

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Route

London Borough of Hounslow (east end)

Outward from London the road starts as Chiswick Lane at

Thames on Chiswick Bridge
.

London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames

After Chiswick Bridge, the A316 is Clifford Avenue until its next crossroads, the

dual-carriageway Lower Richmond Road before crossing the B353 at Manor Circus, North Sheen and then the single-carriageway Lower Mortlake Road before crossing the A307 at Richmond Circus. Finishing its bypass of Richmond to the north, it forms a long bend, as Twickenham Road, passing Pools on the Park and skirting most of Old Deer Park on the south side, before crossing the Thames again on Twickenham Bridge. After this the road is called The Avenue, and includes a sharp 35 degree correctional bend, before reaching St Margarets Roundabout, St Margarets
, which is the junction for the short A3004 in both directions.

The long western section after this in the Borough is Chertsey Road. It passes the London Road (

A310) Roundabout, before passing an unusually relocated and architecturally Grade I church, All Hallows (formerly Wren's All Hallows, Lombard Street).[1] The road passes Whitton Road Roundabout, also in north Twickenham, which is the turning for Twickenham Rugby Stadium. The road then becomes dual-carriageway again and runs through south Whitton, passing The Stoop rugby ground and a prominent pub/hotel complex. After crossing the River Crane
, the A316 leaves Richmond-upon-Thames and returns to Hounslow.

London Borough of Hounslow (west end)

Between Hospital Bridge Roundabout in Richmond-upon-Thames, and Apex Corner Roundabout, the road resumes the name Great Chertsey Road. After Apex Corner Roundabout, which the A316 crosses over by way of a flyover – most of the remainder of the road is called Country Way. The road crosses the

Dairy Crest building: formerly Job's Dairy, the building later belonged to Unigate before being bought by Dairy Crest. The building has distinctive sculptures of cows made of fibreglass on the roof, installed in 1977, which replaced some earlier stone cow sculptures.[2]
The road passes the Kempton Park Steam Engines at the prominent waterworks, and then exits the London area.

Spelthorne

The final short section of the A316 is in Spelthorne, Surrey and is called Hanworth Road. The road enters the borough near Kempton Park Racecourse, before joining the motorway end-on at Sunbury Cross (Junction 1 of the M3) also in Sunbury-on-Thames. Slip roads link the road with the A308. (51°25′10″N 0°25′06″W / 51.419444°N 0.418333°W / 51.419444; -0.418333 (A316 road (western end))). Just to the north of the road as it joins the M3 is the site of some former greyhound kennels, now occupied by warehouses.[3]

History

The greater part of the road was originally planned in the 1920s as a relief road linking

pub once stood adjacent to the A316 in Hanworth called the "Brown Bear"; it was demolished in 1973 when the road was made into triple lanes and the flyover with limited access over the junction of Bear/Hanworth Road built.[5]

The A316 was the first road in Britain to have stationary traffic enforcement cameras on it, when, on 13 October 1992, the first camera, a Gatso, near Twickenham Bridge facing the road westbound was turned on.[6][7]

Fatal incidents

Nicola Regan, who died after being run over in front of a group of friends on 22 March 1991,[8][9] is commemorated by a nearby memorial bench in Old Deer Park.

On 6 October 1997, the A316 in Hanworth was the scene of one of the earliest recorded road rage incidents in Britain when Toby Exley, a chef from Teddington, and his partner Karen Martin, from Twickenham, both died when their car, a Ford Fiesta, collided with the central reserve after being hit by a speeding Vauxhall Senator which drove away.[10] The driver of the Vauxhall Senator, Jason Humble, from Cove in Hampshire, was eventually arrested, found guilty at the Old Bailey on 2 April 1998 of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.[11]

References

  1. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1080836)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Job's Dairy – Questions and Messages". jobsdairy.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 January 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  3. ^ "A murky tale of drugged racing dogs is exposed in England". sportsillustrated.cnn.com (archive). 22 December 1958. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  4. ^ Geographer's Atlas of Greater London. Geographer's Map Co. Ltd. 1954. pp. 100–101.
  5. ^ "Brown Bear, Bear Road, Hanworth, Feltham". londonpublichouse.com. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  6. ^ Gibbs, Nick (12 October 2012). "20 years of the Gatso". Pistonheads. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  7. ^ Dynes, Michael (15 October 1992). "New Trap for Drivers". The Times. No. 64464. p. 5. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  8. ^ "Girl Killed on A316". Richmond and Twickenham Times. 29 March 1991.
  9. ^ "VIDEO: Dashcam captures near miss for drunk woman on A316". Richmond and Twickenham Times. 9 January 2015.
  10. ^ "Mother makes appeal as police search for road rage killer". The Independent. London. 17 October 1997. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  11. ^ "Road Rage Driver Jailed for 12 Years". BBC News. 2 April 1998. Retrieved 10 April 2013.

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