page_title: Hammersmith flyover
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hammersmith flyover / History
caption_attribution_description: English: St Paul&#39;s Church, Hammersmith, from beneath the flyover, near to Hammersmith, Hammersmith And Fulham, Great Britain.
context_page_description: The Hammersmith flyover is an elevated roadway in West London which carries the A4 arterial road over and to one side of the central Hammersmith gyratory system, and it links together the Cromwell Road extension with the start of the Great West Road. It is one of the first examples of an elevated road using reinforced concrete.
context_section_description: Completed in 1961, it was one of the first examples of its design. Marples, Ridgway and Partners, a Westminster-based civil engineering contractor, built the flyover at a cost of £1.3 million. The then Conservative Transport Minister Ernest Marples had been a Marples, Ridgway shareholder. To avoid a conflict of interest Marples undertook to sell his controlling shareholder interest in the company as soon as he became Minister of Transport in October 1959, although there was a purchaser's requirement that he buy back the shares after he ceased to hold office, at the price paid, should the purchaser so require.
  A large part of the churchyard of St Paul's Church, the parish church of Hammersmith, had to be cleared to allow the building of the flyover, and much of the churchyard wall and many of the graves were lost.
caption: St Paul's, Hammersmith seen from under the flyover
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