North Circular Road

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The **North Circular Road** (officially the **A406** and sometimes known as simply the **North Circular**) is a  ring road around Central London in England. It runs from Chiswick in the west to Woolwich in the east via suburban North London. It connects lots of suburbs and other trunk roads in the region. Together with the South Circular Road, it forms a ring road around central London. This ring road does not go all around the city. Instead, it is C-shaped. This is because in the east, you need to cross over the River Thames on the Woolwich Ferry.

## Route

The North Circular Road is the northern part of a ring-road around Central London. It has seen much more investment than the South Circular Road, and it runs on much wider roads. Existing houses were demolished for the North Circular Road. The route has other names at some points. However, it is mostly called the North Circular so route planning is easier. The route is mostly grade-separated dual carriageway from the A40 at Hanger Lane to the A13 in Beckton except for the Drury Way/Brentfield Road junction, the Golders Green Road/Brent Street junction, Henlys Corner and the section from Bounds Green to Green Lanes. In worse sections, the original names such as Gunnersbury Avenue and Bowes Road are used.

## Junctions

The North Circular Road has a lots of different junctions that connect to other roads. Some are complex and grade-separated, like at Charlie Brown's Roundabout near Woodford. Some are at-grade junctions with traffic lights. The original road only had at-grade junctions. Many of these were improved and grade separated in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

### Current junctions

|Name|Destinations|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Chiswick flyover|, Hounslow||
|Gunnersbury Park|, Acton||
||, Acton||
|Hanger Lane Gyratory|, Acton Northolt||
|||Near Stonebridge Park station|
||Brent Park, Superstores, Wembley Stadium, Industrial Estate||
|Staples Corner|, Kilburn, Cricklewood, Edgware, West Hendon|A5 is the historic Watling Street from London to Wroxeter|
|Brent Cross|– Kilburn, Cricklewood, Hendon, Hatfield||
|Henlys Corner||West end of merge with the A1|
|Henlys Corner||There is a special crossing for Jews to use on the Sabbath here|
|Henlys Corner||East end of merge with A1|
|||The historic Great North Road|
|Colney Hatch Junction|, Retail Park||
|Hobart Corner|, Whetstone, Southgate||
|Bounds Green interchange|, Southgate|This area often gets a lot of traffic because the road is just one lane each way. Transport for London want to improve the junction.|
|Clockhouse Junction|||
|Great Cambridge Road Roundabout|, Enfield, Potters Bar, Ware, Royston, Cambridge||
|Crooked Billet Roundabout|||
|Waterworks|– Woodford, Leytonstone, Walthamstow||
|Charlie Brown's||The original Charlie Brown's was the roundabout underneath this junction. It was named after a pub next to the roundabout, which was demolished in 1972.|
|Charlie Brown's|||
|Redbridge Roundabout|, Stratford, Chelmsford, Romford|Also the location of Redbridge tube station|
|||The historic Roman Road from London to Colchester|
|Beckton Roundabout|, Blackwall Tunnel||

### Former junctions

|Name|Destinations|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Waterworks Corner||To avoid Epping Forest, the North Circular previously met the A104 by a water works northeast of Walthamstow.|
|Gants Hill||Gants Hill tube station is here.|

## Public transport

There are three bus routes where most of the route is on the North Circular Road:
- London Buses route 34: between Bounds Green and Walthamstow/South Chingford (Crooked Billet)
- London Buses route 112: between Ealing (Hanger Lane) and Finchley (Henlys Corner)
- London Buses route 232: in Brent Park/Neasden and between Staples Corner/Brent Cross and Palmers Green (Green Lanes)

## Other websites

- A406 and Ringway 2 – North Circular on CBRD
- A406 traffic updates  on londontraffic.org

## Infobox (road)

- **country**: GBR
- **type**: A
- **route**: 406
- **alternate name**: North Circular Road
- **map**: London north-south circulars.svg
- **map notes**: The route of the North Circular Road in Greater London, with the South Circular Road, London, South Circular Road and Woolwich Ferry
- **length mi**: 25.7
- **maint**: Transport for London
- **direction a**: West
- **terminus a**: Chiswick (M4 motorway, M4 Junction 1)
- **direction b**: East
- **terminus b**: Beckton
- **history**: Opened: 1910
Completed: c. 1930