A1 road (Great Britain)

A1 is the official title of the Great Northern Road in England. It runs up the eastern side of England from London to Edinburgh in Scotland. It is six hundred and sixty kilometres long, making it the longest numbered road in the U.K.. The A1 has six major junctions with motorways, and over twenty major junctions with other A roads.

A1
Route information
Part of E15
Length	410 mi (660 km)
Major junctions
South end	A1211 in City of London[1]
Major intersections	A40 A406 M1 A41 M25 A421 A428 A14 A141 A15 A47 A606 A43 A52 A17 A46 A57 M18 M62 A63 A64 A168 A61 A66 A66(M) A689 A690 A194(M) A1231 A19 A69 A167 A720 A900 A7
North end	Edinburgh55.9522°N 3.1886°W / 55.9522; -3.1886
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Primary destinations	London, Hatfield, Stevenage, Biggleswade, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Stamford, Grantham, Newark-on-Trent, Retford, Doncaster, Pontefract, Leeds, Wetherby, Harrogate, Ripon, Scotch Corner, Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Morpeth, Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Haddington and Edinburgh
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones
← A1 A2 →

The A1 follows, for much of the way, the course of a Roman road, Ermine Street, and the old coach route to Edinburgh. It is not a motorway, but a lot of it is now built to motorway standards. It is one of two main roads going from London to Northern England, the other being the M1 motorway.

Passing through Nottinghamshire, the road skirts the remains of Sherwood Forest. Scotch Corner, in North Yorkshire, marks the point where the traffic for Glasgow and the west of Scotland divides from that for Edinburgh, as it has for hundreds of years before car traffic. From North Yorkshire to Durham the road follows, for part of the way, another Roman road called Dere Street. This road ran from Eboracum (York) to the Antonine Wall in the lowlands of present-day Scotland.

Some parts of the A1 are motorways, and these parts are numbered A1(M).

References

1. 51.5153°N 0.0972°W / 51.5153; -0.0972

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