London Inner Ring Road
The London Inner Ring Road, or Ring Road as signposted, is a 12-mile (19 km) route with an average diameter of 2.75–5.5 miles (4.43–8.85 km) formed from a number of major roads that encircle Central London.[1] The ring road forms the boundary of the London congestion charge zone, although the ring road itself is not part of the zone.
Starting at the northernmost point and moving
The route is described as the "Inner" Ring Road because there are two further sets of roads that have been described as London ring roads. The
History
Plans for an Inner Ring Road were put forward by Patrick Abercrombie[3] in the 1940s,[4] in the County of London Plan.
Constituent roads
The route is signed as "Ring Road" and is made up of the following:
Route | Roads |
---|---|
A501 |
|
A5201 |
Old Street, between Old Street roundabout and junction with Great Eastern Street |
A1202 |
Great Eastern Street / Commercial Street |
A1211 |
Mansell Street |
A100 |
Tower Hill, Tower Bridge Approach, Tower Bridge Road, Bricklayers Arms |
A201 |
New Kent Road |
A3204 |
Kennington Lane |
A202 |
Vauxhall Bridge Road |
A302 |
Grosvenor Place, Lower Grosvenor Place, Bressenden Place |
A4202 |
Park Lane
|
A5 | southern section of the Edgware Road between Sussex Gardens and Marble Arch
|
Historic New Road
Construction of the
The road is now one of the busiest main roads in the city. It runs from Edgware Road in the west to Angel, in the east. After being renamed in 1857, the western section between Edgware Road and Great Portland Street is known as Marylebone Road, the central section between Great Portland Street and King's Cross is known as Euston Road,[7] and the eastern section from King's Cross to The Angel is called Pentonville Road.
City Road was constructed in 1761 to continue the route eastwards to the northern edge of the City of London.[8]
Pentonville Road
Pentonville Road runs west to east from Kings Cross to City Road. By far the greater portion of the road is in the London Borough of Islington but a small part near Kings Cross is in the London Borough of Camden, including an entrance to King's Cross St Pancras Underground station at the former King's Cross Thameslink station. It acquired its present name in 1857.[9]
There are several halls of residence located on Pentonville Road, these being
This street is distinguished by the "set back" housing lines originally intended to provide an atmosphere of spaciousness along the thoroughfare. It is one of the locations on the UK version of the Monopoly board game, which features areas native to London.
Pentonville Road is one of the many London place names mentioned in the song "Transmetropolitan" by The Pogues.
Mansell Street
Mansell Street is a short road, part of the A1210 route (though sometimes shown as being the A1211), which for most of its length marks the boundary between the City of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, though the southernmost part is entirely in Tower Hamlets. It runs from Aldgate southwards to the Tower of London. The northern part, north of the junction with Goodmans Yard and Prescot Street, has one way northbound traffic, while the southern part has one way southbound traffic.
Tower Bridge Road
Tower Bridge Road is a
The road has an abundance of antique (or junk) shops along part of its length. There is also Bermondsey Square which holds an 'antique' market every Friday morning, usually known as Bermondsey Market, though officially as New Caledonian Market.
Towards its southern end are a collection of shops, pubs and takeaways.
Kennington Lane
Kennington Lane is an
Starting at the Elephant, Kennington Lane splits off from the
Vauxhall Bridge Road
Vauxhall Bridge Road runs south-east to north-west from
Victoria one-way system
Victoria one-way system lies in front of
See also
- County of London Plan
- London Ringways
- North Circular
- South Circular
- M25 motorway
- Garden Ring in Moscow
References
- ^ UK Roads: London Inner Ring Road Archived 7 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Congestion Charging in London". BBC. 30 October 2006. Retrieved 29 May 2008.
- ^ "Now We Must Rebuild: The Greater London Plan, 1944 – Schoonheidsspecialist Harold". Haroldhill.org. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "Even before the war was over a regional planner, Patrick Abercrombie, had prepared two proposals, the County of London Plan and the Greater London Plan, which would lend London 'order and efficiency and beauty and spaciousness' with an end to 'violent competitive passion'. It is the eternal aspiration, or delusion, that somehow the city can be forced to change its nature by getting rid of all the elements by which it had previously thrived." London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd, Vintage, 2001, page 755
- ^ "SABRE – Road Lists – Roads by 10 – A501". Sabre-roads.org.uk. 13 May 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ CBRD – Histories – Ringways – Early plans Archived 19 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Euston Road". UCL Bloomsbury Project. UCL. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
- ^ "City Road" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopedia: 176-77
- ^ "Pentonville Road" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopedia: 592
- ^ a b "The London Diplomatic List" (PDF). 14 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2013.