A47 road

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For the A47 in Northern Ireland, see A47 road (Northern Ireland). For the French motorway, see A47 autoroute.

A47 shield
A47
A452 in Birmingham

A444 in Nuneaton

A5 in Nuneaton
A6 in Leicester

A12 in Lowestoft
Location
Country
Primary
destinations
Nuneaton
Hinckley/Earl Shilton
Leicester
Peterborough
Wisbech
King's Lynn
Swaffham
Dereham
Norwich
Great Yarmouth
Gorleston-on-Sea
Lowestoft
Road network
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A48

The A47 is a major trunk road in

B4114. From Peterborough eastwards, it is a trunk road. (Sections west of the A1 road
have been downgraded as alternative roads have been built.)

History

Spitfire factory at Castle Bromwich

The original (1923) route of the A47 was Birmingham to Great Yarmouth, but some changes were made to its route in the early years. At its eastern end, the A47 originally ran through Filby and Caister-on-Sea, with the Acle Straight bearing the number B1140.

A change took place in 1925. The original route of the A47 between Guyhirn and Wisbech in the Isle of Ely was via Wisbech St Mary, with the direct route being part of the A141. That was because there was no road bridge over the River Nene at Guyhirn and hence no junction between the A47 and the A141. In April 1925 a steel road bridge was opened, and the A47 and the A141 swapped routes between Guyhirn and Wisbech.[4]

The A47 was rerouted along the Acle Straight in 1935, with the old route being renumbered as the A1064 (Acle to Caister-on-Sea) and part of the A149 (Caister to Great Yarmouth). Another change also dates from 1935. The A47 originally ran via Downham Market, not King's Lynn. In 1935,[citation needed] it was rerouted via King's Lynn, replacing part of the A141 (Wisbech to King's Lynn) and part of the A17 (King's Lynn to Swaffham). The old route via Downham Market was renumbered as the A1122 (Outwell to Swaffham) and part of the A1101 (Wisbech to Outwell).

Major improvements were made from the late 1970s until early in the 1990s. The seven-mile (11.3 km) £5 million part-dual-carriageway East Dereham Bypass built on part of the disused railway line was opened in spring 1978 followed by a five-mile (8 km) part-dual-carriageway Swaffham Bypass, costing £5 million, which was opened in June 1981. Bypasses for Uppingham (£1.4 million) and Blofield (£4 million) were opened in 1982 and 1983 respectively. The southern section of the Great Yarmouth Western Bypass was opened in May 1985 and the northern section in March 1986 at a cost of £19 million, followed by improvements to the one-mile (1.6 km) Postwick-Blofield section (£1.2 million), which was opened in November 1987. In 1989 Acle Bypass was completed at a cost of £7.1 million and the £1.2 million East Norton Bypass was opened in December 1990. The three-mile (4.8 km) £9 million East Dereham-North Tuddenham Improvement opened in August 1992 and the £62 million Norwich southern Bypass in September 1992.

Escalating

road protests starting with Twyford Down in 1992 and culminating with the Newbury bypass in 1996 (at which more than 1,000 people were arrested)[5] led to more than 300 road schemes being cancelled in November 1995[6] and to the cancellation of further schemes, including the Thorney bypass,[7] by the new Labour government in 1997.[8][9]

In 2002 the government announced a new road-building programme,[10] which included the three-mile (4.8 km) dual-carriageway Thorney bypass, which opened on 14 December 2005.

In February 2017

Highways England (now National Highways) redesignated the stretch of the A12 road between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft as the A47.[11]

Proposed improvements

Acle Straight (New Road)

A47 Acle Straight (New Road)
Route of the proposed A47 Acle Straight scheme
LocationNorfolk
ProposerNorfolk County Council
GeometryKML

A study on the A47 which concluded in 2001 looked at improving New Road, i.e. the section of the A47 between Acle and Great Yarmouth known as the Acle Straight.

Broads Authority due to its impact on biodiversity and internationally important wildlife sites. These parties did cautiously support further investigation into the option for widening following further investigation of its environmental impact.[13]

Acle Straight safety improvement scheme

In 2006 a programme of safety improvement for the Acle Straight were announced. This would include road resurfacing, better road markings, improved visibility and the installation of safety cameras at an estimated total cost of £1.6 million. The result would then be monitored while long-term improvements, such as widening, are considered.[14]

Norwich Northern Distributor Road

Main article: Norwich Northern Distributor Road

A £117 million road scheme to the north of

Norwich International Airport to the A47, sponsored and managed by Norfolk County Council. It was priority scheme for Norfolk County Council and it attracted strong opposition both locally and from environmental groups.[15]
On 2 June 2015 the scheme was given the go ahead, in 2017 parts of the road were opened with the complete road opened in early 2018.

A scheme to connect the A47 at Easton with the A1067 at Attlebridge at the end of the Norwich Northern Distributor Road.[16]

North Tuddenham-Easton and Blofield-North Burlingham dualling

The two stretches of dual carriageway west and east of Norwich respectively are planned to be dualled by 2027.

Development Consent Order (DCO) was granted in 2022,[18][19] both schemes were subject to legal challenge which have since been dismissed.[20] This caused the overall scheme to be delayed by 20 months.[21] Work began on the North Tuddenham to Easton leg in 19 August 2024 and is due to be finished in 2027.[22]

Other proposed improvements

In 2012 Norfolk County Council launched the strategic route prospectus which detailed improvement schemes along the A47 between Peterborough and King's Lynn.[23] The list of improvements, costing a total £526 million, included dualling sections of the road and other junction improvements. The sections of the road to be dualled were the Acle straight, Blofield to Burlingham, North Tuddenham to Easton and the East Winch/Middleton bypass. Other improvements detailed were four schemes at Great Yarmouth, including a £112 million third river crossing, four junction improvements along the Norwich Southern Bypass and improvements to the three junctions at King's Lynn.

On 8 October 2012 it was the announced that improvements to the A1/A47 junction at Wansford and the roundabout at Honingham would be approved for pinch point funding.[24] On 1 December 2014 it was announced that a package of improvements to the A47 worth a total of £300 million would be funded during the 2015-20 parliament.[25]

Route

Route of A47, OpenStreetMap

Birmingham

The Birmingham end of the A47 starts one mile from the centre of Birmingham at the junction with the

A4540 Middleway. The traffic light controlled junction was laid out in 2018–19 following the infilling of the Ashted Circus roundabout.[26][27] The road runs north-east through Vauxhall as Nechells Parkway and then Saltley Road. (Historically it started in the City Centre on High Street.) The road continues north east following the Cross Country Route and River Rea as first Heartlands Parkway and then Fort Parkway. The Birmingham section of the road terminates at Spitfire Island, a roundabout on the A452
halfway between the M6 Junction 5 and A38 Tyburn Island.

The route between Birmingham and Nuneaton was known as the A47 until 1986, when it was renumbered, mainly as the B4114, following the completion of the M42.[citation needed]

Nuneaton – Leicester

The A47 in Normandy Way, Hinckley

At

A563 outer ring-road before becoming part of the inner ring road.

Humberstone Gate in Leicester (ex-A47)

Leicester – A1

Uppingham Road shops

Leaving Leicester the road becomes Humberstone Road, then Uppingham Road. It passes under the

A563 (outer ring road) and Goodwood Road (projected extension of the outer ring road) crossroads, the road meets the B667 Spencefield Lane to the south, for Evington. Between the Downing Drive junction and Thurnby Hill it enters Leicestershire and the district of Harborough. At Thurnby it meets Station Road to the north, for Scraptoft. Leaving Bushby
it climbs Winkadale Hill into the countryside.

Rose & Crown in Houghton on the Hill

The road travels through

Tugby, which is traversed by the Midshires Way and National Cycle Route 63. It winds its way towards the one-kilometre £1.2 million East Norton Bypass, which opened in December 1990, passing south of the village, with a left turn for Loddington and right turn for Hallaton. Leaving the village, after rejoining the former route, it passes the former railway station. It heads down a hill as three lanes and crosses the Eye Brook and from here the next ten miles are in Rutland
, and three lanes become two.

The A6003 roundabout at Ayston

There is a left turn for

Travelodge, and a new cafe restaurant, the Country Lounge originally a Little Chef, on the left and there is a left turn for Morcott, where the road is crossed by the Rutland Round. It meets the A6121 (for Stamford) and B672 (for Caldecott) where it crosses a tunnel of a former railway. At a right turn for Barrowden there is Morcott Windmill, and the road is again crossed by the Rutland Round. There is a crossroads for South Luffenham and Barrowden
.

Collyweston quarry

From Shire Oaks (Coppice Leys) through

Kings Cliffe. The woodland here is the northern edge of the historic Rockingham Forest. The road towards Wittering Lodge has been straightened, and crosses the City of Peterborough boundary (former Northamptonshire, then Cambridgeshire). At Toll Bar Cottage, there is a left turn for Wittering, opposite Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve. The road meets the A1
.

A1 – Kings Lynn

The road formerly went through Wansford, further to the south. The £250,000 dual-carriageway

Castor Bypass opened in September 1991. Around Peterborough, the Peterborough Longthorpe Grade separated junction (GSJ) opened in December 1987 where it meets the A1260. There is a GSJ for Bretton and a Sainsbury's, and it passes the Peterborough City Hospital. The £1.2 million Peterborough Westwood GSJ opened in January 1987 near Ravensthorpe. This section of road is called the Soke Parkway (named after the Soke of Peterborough
). When this was first built, in the mid-1970s, the A47 followed what is now the A15 Paston Parkway.

It crosses the

Total Wisbech Services and then meets the old route (B198) at a roundabout and becomes the 6-mile (9.7 km) £23 million dual-carriageway Walpole Highway/Tilney High End Bypass which opened in summer 1996. There is an exit for Walpole Highway, and another for Terrington St John. It passes near Tilney High End. Near Tilney All Saints, it meets the old route at a roundabout, becoming the single carriageway Main Road, then Pullover Road. It meets the end of the A17 at the "Pullover Roundabout" where the West Lynn
Little Chef is located.

King's Lynn – Great Yarmouth

Thickthorn Interchange between the A47 and A11.
The A47 near Norwich

Nearing King's Lynn, the dual carriageway crosses over the

Campbell's Soup). After this junction it becomes Constitution Hill until the turn off for North Runcton; then Lynn Road, where in Middleton it passes the Grade II listed former lodge to Middleton Hall, 'The Old Lodge',[33]
the former Crown public house and St Mary's church.

Next is

Breckland. There is a straight section to where it meets the A1122 (for RAF Marham) at a roundabout at the start of the five-mile part-dual-carriageway Swaffham Bypass, which opened in June 1981. There is an exit for Swaffham, and a grade-separated junction with the A1065 (for Fakenham
).

It passes some wind turbines and there is a roundabout where it joins the former route just before it is crossed by the

Crane's Corner. The seven-mile £5 million part-dual-carriageway East Dereham Bypass opened in spring 1978, which was built on part of the disused railway line. It passes near Wendling and St Peter and St Paul church then meets the B1146 (for Dereham) and A1075 (for Shipdham) near a Tesco supermarket and B1135. The B1147 leaves for Swanton Morley. The three-mile £9 million East Dereham-North Tuddenham Improvement opened in August 1992, which passes North Tuddenham. It bypasses Hockering. It enters the district of Broadland at the start of the bypass of Honingham, where it crosses the River Tud. Just before the roundabout at Easton, it enters the district of South Norfolk
.

Norwich Southern Bypass

The dual-carriageway £62 million Norwich Bypass opened in September 1992. At the Longwater Intersection, the A1074 follows the former route through Norwich near the Longwater Retail Park and

Breckland Line. Near Keswick Hall, it meets the A140 at a GSJ at Harford Bridge, south of Norwich, near a Tesco, then crosses the Great Eastern Main Line. It is crossed by Boudica's Way, then meets the A146
at a GSJ. It crosses the River Yare again at the Postwick Viaduct and enters the district of Broadland.

Postwick Viaduct to Great Yarmouth

It crosses the

Travelodge, becoming the single carriageway New Road. From Acle, the road enters the Acle Straight which is nearly seven miles of straight and level single carriageway to Great Yarmouth, with just one curve at Road House Diner. The road is notorious for congestion, especially during the holiday season, and also for the number of accidents, which due to the drainage ditches on either side of the road are often fatal, and demands for dualling have been heard for many years, although there are no current plans to go ahead with this. It enters the district of Great Yarmouth, then passes close to Breydon Water
. The northern section of the two-mile £19 million Great Yarmouth Western Bypass (A47) opened in March 1986, and the southern section opened in May 1995.

Great Yarmouth - Lowestoft

The Breydon Bridge to the west of Great Yarmouth now carries the A47.
The Gorleston Relief Bypass, which used to be the A12

From the

A1144 in the centre of Lowestoft, it branches off into two routes. The main A47 branches past the towns docks, where it enters a section of 3 lanes controlled by lane tidal flow lights, which predetermine which of the three lanes is open for north or southbound travel over the bascule bridge. The secondary A47 branches through the centre of the town, passing Lowestoft Railway Station and meeting the main A47 by the docks just before the bridge. The A47 then terminates at the Bascule Bridge, where the A12 begins.[34][35]

Bus service

First Eastern Counties run an 'Excel' service, with four branded routes - A, B, C and D, which primarily serve population centres along the A47, with some routes going as far as Peterborough. [36]

Junction list

First segment

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
A41 – Birmingham Airport, Stratford, Solihull, Walsall, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Sutton Coldfield
Western terminus
2.8–
2.9		4.5–
4.7
A4040 to M6 north / M5 – Stockland Green, Erdington, Birmingham Airport, Stechford, Ward End, Bromford
Bromford signed westbound only
4.47.1
A38 – Brownhills, Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield, Minworth, Leamington Spa, Castle Bromwich, Castle Vale
Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Second segment

CountyLocationmi[2][3]kmJctDestinationsNotes
A444 to B4114 – Town centre, Birmingham
Western terminus
1.11.8
A4254 south-west (Eastboro Way) – Attleborough, Coventry
Attleborough signed eastbound only, Coventry westbound only; north-eastern terminus of A4254
2.13.4 A5 north-west (Watling Street) to M42 – Tamworth, AtherstoneWestern terminus of A5 concurrency
LeicestershireHinckley2.43.9 A5 south-east / B4666 (Coventry Road) to M1 / M69 – Town centre, Coventry, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Burbage, LondonLondon signed westbound only; eastern terminus of A5 concurrency
5.48.7
A447 north / B4667 (Ashby Road) – Town centre, Market Bosworth
Southern terminus of A447
A563 (New Parks Way / Braunstone Way) to M1 / M69 – Leicester (N & S), Glenfield, Thorpe Astley
17.227.7
A5460 south / Tudor Road to M1 / M69
To M1 and M69 signed eastbound only; northern terminus of A5460
17.528.2
A426 – Rugby
To A426 and Rugby signed eastbound only; western terminus of A594 concurrency
17.728.5Northgate Street (A50 north-west)No access from A47 west to A50 or from A50 to A47 east; south-eastern terminus of A50
17.928.8
A50 – Loughborough, Coalville
Destinations signed westbound only; western terminus of A6 concurrency
18.229.3
A607 north – Melton Mowbray
Grade-separated junction; southern terminus of A607
18.629.9
A6 south to M1 / M69 – Market Harborough
To M1 and M69 signed westbound only; eastern terminus of A594 / A6 concurrency
20.032.2
A6 – Market Harborough
20.833.5
A6 – Melton Mowbray, Newark, Loughborough, Peterborough, Market Harborough
Southern terminus of A563
A6116 – Oakham, Melton Mowbray, Kettering, Corby, Ayston, Rutland, Uppingham, Caldecott
A6121 north-east (Stamford Road) – Stamford, South Luffenham, Morcott
South-western terminus of A6121
A43 – Collyweston, Stamford, Corby, Kettering
A1139 – The North, London, Stamford, Peterborough
(S)		Junction on A1
SuttonBegin freeway
Castor54.988.4CastorWestbound exit and eastbound entrance
A605 – Peterborough, London, Northampton
Peterborough signed eastbound only, To A1, A605, London and Northampton westbound only; northern terminus of A1260
57.1–
57.5		91.9–
92.5		16Bretton centre
57.9–
58.6		93.2–
94.3		17
18		City centre, MarholmSigned as exit 17 eastbound, 18 westbound
Peterborough59.0–
59.4		95.0–
95.6		19Local traffic
59.996.4End freeway
59.996.4
A605 – Sleaford, Gunthorpe, Werrington, London, Northampton, Eye, City centre
Gunthorpe and W'ton signed eastbound only, To A1, A605, London, N'hampton, Eye and City signed westbound only
A16 north / Welland Road – Spalding, Crowland, Newborough
Newborough signed westbound only; southern terminus of A16
A1139 south / White Post Road South – Eye
Northern terminus of A1139
A141 south (March Road) – March
Northern terminus of A141
A1101 (Elm High Road) – Wisbech, Sleaford, Downham Market, Ely, Elm, Emneth, Outwell
Elm, Emneth and Outwell signed eastbound only, Ely westbound only
Junction
; Tilney signed eastbound only
A17 / Clenchwarton Road – Sleaford, West Lynn
Eastern terminus of A17
A148
east)		Junction; information signed eastbound only; western terminus of A148
A134 – Downham Market, Cromer, Hunstanton, King's Lynn, Thetford
To A148, A134, Hunstanton and Thetford signed eastbound only; northern terminus of A10
A1122 west (Swaffham Road) – Downham Market
Eastern terminus of A1122
104.7168.5SwaffhamJunction; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
105.9–
106.1		170.4–
170.8
A1065 – Cromer, Newmarket, Swaffham
A1075 south to B1135 – Dereham, Watton, Wymondham
Junction; To B1135 and Wymondham signed eastbound only; northern terminus of A1075
118.6–
119.0		190.9–
191.5		B1110 – Swanton MorleyJunction; B1110 signed westbound only
North Tuddenham121.3–
121.6		195.2–
195.7		North TuddenhamJunction
Easton126.7203.9Begin freeway
A140 – Norwich, Cromer, Costessey
To A140 and Cromer signed eastbound only; western terminus of A1074
Bawburgh–
Colney–
Little Melton
boundary		130.0–
130.3		209.2–
209.7		 B1108 – Norwich, Watton, Colney
A11 – Norwich, Thetford, London
A1066 – Norwich, Ipswich, Diss
A146 – Norwich, Lowestoft, Trowse
A140 – Norwich (N & E), Postwick, Thorpe St Andrew, Cromer
Thorpe signed eastbound only, Cromer westbound only; eastern terminus of A1042
140.5226.1End freeway
Blofield142.7–
143.2		229.7–
230.5		Blofield HeathJunction; eastbound exit and entrance
Acle146.6235.9Acle, Reedham, UptonJunction; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
147.5237.4
A1064 east / New Road – Caister, Acle, Reedham, Upton
Reedham and Upton signed westbound only; western terminus of A1064
A149 west (Acle New Road) – Town centre, Caister
Eastern terminus of A149
156.1251.2Pasteur Road (
A1243
east) / Gapton Hall Road		Western terminus of A1243
156.6252.0William Adams Way (
A1154 east) – Gorleston
Western terminus of A1154
A146 – Diss, Beccles
Junction; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
A12 south-west (Millenium Way) / B1385 (Corton Long Lane) / Blundeston Road – Ipswich, Beccles, Corton, Blundeston
North-eastern terminus of A12
A1144 west (St Peter's Street) / Dukes Head Street to B1074 – Beccles, Somerleyton, Oulton Broad
Routes signed westbound only; eastern terminus of A1144
166.4267.8
A146 / B1531 – Ipswich, Beccles, Oulton Broad
Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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