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 Thursday, February 11, 2021

If you've ever driven around London or listened to travel news on the radio you'll know that some road junctions have special names. Some are dull, like the Bow Interchange, and others considerably more intriguing. Who or what was Charlie Brown's? (a former pub) What triggered Henlys Corner? (a car showroom) Whither Staples Corner? (a mattress factory)



So I thought I'd try to come up with a list of specially-named road junctions in London.

It's not definitive.
I've focused on single- and double-digit A roads, plus the North and South Circulars.
After the North and South Circulars it generally runs clockwise.
It's mostly derived from several pages on the SABRE website, plus the London A-Z.
If you're interested in a particular junction, SABRE is very good.
The list won't be complete, it won't be 100% correct and it wouldn't be how you'd have done it, let's take that as read.
If nothing else, read it as a series of lovely poems with a lot of road numbers inserted.

North Circular (A406)
Gallions Roundabout (A117) → Beckton Roundabout (A13) → Wallend (A124) → Ilford Bridge (A118) → Redbridge (A12) → Charlie Brown's (A113) → Woodford (M11) → Waterworks Corner (A104) → Crooked Billet (A112) → Hall Lane → Cooks Ferry (A1009) → Kenninghall (A1055) → Angel Edmonton (A1010) → Great Cambridge Junction (A10) → Clockhouse Junction (A105) → Bounds Green (A1110) → Hobart Corner (A109) → Colney Hatch → High Road (A1000) → Henlys Corner (A1) → Brent Cross (A41) → Staples Corner (M1) → Neasden Junction (A4088) → Stonebridge Park (A404) → Park Royal → Hanger Lane (A40) → Ealing Common (A4020) → Gunnersbury Park (A4000) → Chiswick Roundabout (A4)

South Circular (A205)
Chiswick Roundabout (A4) → Kew Bridge (A315) → Kew Green (A307) → Chalkers Corner (A316) → Milestone Green → Red Rover (A306) → Wandsworth Gyratory (A3) → Tulse Hill (A215) → The Grove (A2216) → Forest Hill (A2216) → Catford Gyratory (A21) → Cliftons Roundabout (A20) → Yorkshire Grey (A210) → Well Hall Roundabout (A208)

A1
St Paul's (A40) → Angel (A501) → Highbury Corner (A1200) → Nags Head (A503) → Archway (A400) → Henlys Corner (A406) → Fiveways Corner (A41) → Mill Hill Circus (A5100) → Apex Corner (A41) → Stirling Corner (A411)

A10
Monument (A3) → Shoreditch (A1202) → Dalston Junction (A104) → Stoke Newington → Seven Sisters (A503) → Bruce Grove (A1010) → Great Cambridge Junction (A406) → Halfway House → Turkey Street

A12
Blackwall Lane → South Bromley (A13) → Bow Interchange (A11) → Hackney Wick (A106) → Lea Interchange (A106) → Green Man (A114) → Redbridge (A406) → Gants Hill (A123) → Little Heath → Moby Dick (A1112) → Gallows Corner (A127) → Brook Street (M25)

A13
Aldgate (A11) → South Bromley (A12) → Leamouth (A1020) → Canning Town (A124) → Prince Regent (A112) → Beckton Alps (A117) → Beckton Roundabout (A406) → Movers Lane → Lodge Avenue (A123) → Goresbrook (A1306) → Marsh Way (A1311) → Ferry Lane → Wennington (A1306)

A2
Borough (A3) → Bricklayers Arms (A100) → Canal Bridge (A2208) → New Cross Gate (A202) → New Cross (A20) → Sun-in-the-Sands (A102) → Kidbrooke (A2213) → Falconwood → Danson (A221) → Black Prince (A223)

A20
New Cross (A2) → Loampit Vale (A21) → Lee Green (A2212) → Cliftons Roundabout (A205) → Frognal Corner (A222) → Crittalls Corner (A224) → Birchwood Corner

A21
Loampit Vale (A20) → Catford Gyratory (A205) → Bromley Common Roundabout → The Fantail (A232) → Farnborough Way Roundabout → Pratts Bottom → Hewitts Roundabout (M25)

A23
Kennington Oval (A3) → Streatham (A214) → Thornton Heath Pond (A235) → Lombard Roundabout (A236) → Fiveways Corner (A232) → Purley Cross (A22) → Brighton Road Roundabout (A237)

A24
Clapham Common (A3) → Tooting Bec (A214) → Tooting Broadway (A217) → Colliers Wood (A236) → The Woodstock → Queen Victoria (A2043)

A3
Monument (A10) → Borough (A2) → Elephant & Castle (A201) → Kennington Oval (A23) → Clapham Common (A24) → Wandsworth Gyratory (A217) → Tibbets Corner (A219) → Roehampton Lane (A306) → Stag Lane → Robin Hood (A308) → Coombe Lane (A238) → Shannon Corner (A2043) → Malden Junction (A2043) → Tolworth (A240) → Hook (A243)

A316
Hogarth Roundabout (A4) → Chalkers Corner (A205) → Manor Circus → Richmond Circus (A307) → St Margarets (A3004) → London Road (A310) → Whitton Road → Hospital Bridge → Apex Corner (A312) → Waterworks

A30
Henlys Roundabout (A4) → Hatton Cross → Terminal 4 Roundabout → Clockhouse Roundabout (A315)

A4
Holborn Circus (A40) → Charing Cross → Piccadilly Circus (A401) → Hyde Park Corner (A302) → Scotch House (A315) → Hammersmith Flyover (A306) → Hogarth Roundabout (A316) → Chiswick Roundabout (A406)/(M4) → Brentford (A3002) → Gillette Corner → Henlys Roundabout (A30) → Waggoners Roundabout (A312) → Harlington Corner (A437) → Concord Roundabout (M4) → Moor Junction (A3044)

A40
St Paul's (A1) → Holborn Circus (A4) → St Giles Circus (A400) → Oxford Circus (A4201) → Marble Arch (A5) → → Marylebone Flyover (A5) → Paddington (A404) → Westway Roundabout (A3220) → Wood Lane (A219) → Savoy Circus → Gipsy Corner (A4000) → Hanger Lane (A406) → Perivale → Greenford Roundabout (A4127) → Target Roundabout (A312) → Polish War Memorial (A4180) → Hillingdon Circus (A437) → Swakeleys

A41
Baker Street (A501) → Lord's Roundabout (A5205) → Swiss Cottage → Brent Cross (A406) → Hendon Central Circus (A504) → Fiveways Corner (A1) → → Apex Corner (A1) → Brockley (M1)

A5
Marble Arch (A40) → Marylebone Flyover (A40) → Staples Corner (A406) → Canons Corner (A410) → Brockley (M1)

See also: Roneo Corner (A124/A125), Dovers Corner (A125/A1306), Vauxhall Cross (A202/A203), Ruxley Corner (A211/A223), Keston Mark (A232/A233), White Hart (A312/A4180), Ossie Garvin (A312/A4020), Britannia Junction (A400/A503), Old Street (A501/A5201), Tally Ho Corner (A598/A1000)

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