A43 road
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Country | Primary destinations Northampton | Kettering Corby |
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The A43 is a
The section of the road between the M40 and M1 is designated a trunk road, managed and maintained by National Highways. The remainder of the route is the responsibility of local authorities.
Route of road
M40 to M1
The A43 starts at M40 junction 10 (the location of
Following the junction with the M40, the A43 first meets a roundabout with the B4100 for traffic headed north-west for the village of Aynho or south for the town of Bicester. Continuing north, the A43 passes many Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire rural villages and towns before meeting the A421 which spurs towards Buckingham and later, Milton Keynes.
The stretch of A43 through south Northamptonshire was upgraded to dual carriageway standard between the M1 and Towcester in 1991 and through to the M40 in the early 2000s. This was primarily to provide a link from the M1 to the M40 and also to Silverstone, home of the British Grand Prix. During the Grand Prix the A43 is closed to through traffic between Brackley and Towcester.[1]
The town of
) joins the A43.From here, the A43 leaves the Oxfordshire borders and continues in a north-easterly direction towards Silverstone, where the road joins the A413 at a grade-separated junction.
Later, the A43 bypasses
M1 to Corby
From M1 junction 15a the A43 runs concurrently southbound on the M1 to junction 15. It then follows the
Following this, the road has a straight, rural stretch before reaching a roundabout at
. At Junction 7 the A43 re-emerges on a new dual carriageway bypass. The old route of the A43 through Kettering town centre is still intact.After bypassing Kettering, the road previously travelled through the historic village of Geddington. The old road is still regularly used, possibly due to poor signage or lack of SatNav updates. A new bypass, called the Corby Link Road, opened in 2014, from Barford Bridge on the A6003 to the A43 west of Stanion.[3][4] Continuing from here, it passes the Euro-Hub site at Corby, and then it passes Corby and reaches several roundabouts.
Corby to Stamford
After bypassing Corby and Weldon, it heads out on a rural stretch, past Deene Park, and then bypassing Bulwick, the only village on this stretch. It passes some splendid woodland, and then heads towards Duddington.
Bypassing Duddington, it meets the
Then it meets the A1, before continuing towards Stamford. Previously, the A43 stopped at a junction with the Old A1 (Great North Road) in Stamford, but now that Stamford is bypassed, the A43 continues over the River Welland, until it reaches the A1175.
History of the road number
The original (1923) route of the A43 was from the A42 (later the A34) at Kidlington to Stamford. After completion of the Oxford Ring Road, the southern terminus was changed to the Pear Tree Roundabout between Kidlington and Oxford. When the M40 was opened in 1991 the road from the Pear Tree Roundabout to Weston-on-the-Green was renumbered A34, and the stretch through Middleton Stoney between the A34 and junction 10 of the M40 was downgraded to the B430.
External links
References
- ^ "Drivers advised to plan journeys ahead of British Grand Prix at Silverstone next weekend (3-5 July) - Press releases - GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ Responses to Towcester Town Transport Strategy Consultation 24/09/2012 - 02/11/2012 Accessed 13 June 2014 Archived 8 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Department for transport A14 - A43 link road, accessed 18 September 2012 Archived 24 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Interserve win £24m contract to build the new A43 Corby link road for Northamptonshire County Council Construction Index 25 June 2012 accessed 18 September 2012