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From west to east, the road goes through:
At Nuneaton, the road re-emerges from a junction with the A444, near a garage. It enters Leicester Forest East , crossing the M1 near the Service Station . There is a busy roundabout with the A563 Leicester outer ring-road. It passes a BP garage at the St James service station. Entering the city centre, it crosses the River Soar and the Grand Union Canal . Leaving Leicester, it becomes Humberstone Road, then Uppingham Road. It passes under the Midland Main Line , then passes a Total garage at the St Matthews service station. At Humberstone , just before the A563 junction it passes a Shell garage at the Trocadero service station. At Thurnby , it passes a Texaco garage at Harris Motors. The road passes through Houghton On The Hill . The two-mile £2.5m Billesdon Bypass opened in October 1986. The transmitter for Leicester Sound is situated here. The one-kilometre £1.2m East Norton Bypass, in Leicestershire , opened in December 1990. The next ten miles are in Rutland . The two-mile £1.9m Wardley Hill Improvement opened in October 1987. The one-and-a-half-mile £1.4m Uppingham Bypass opened in June 1982. This is the home of Uppingham School . At Morcott , there is a popular Little Chef , and a Texaco garage at the Morcott service station. The Duddington Bypass, in Northamptonshire , opened in 1975. The road crosses the River Welland . This section has a busy roundabout where it meets the south-west/north-east corridor A43 . From here to the A1 , the road goes close to the runway of RAF Wittering , in Cambridgeshire . The dual-carriageway £9m Ailsworth- Castor Bypass opened in September 1991. Around Peterborough, the Peterborough Longthorpe GSJ opened in December 1987. The £1.2m Peterborough Westwood GSJ opened in January 1987. This section of road is called the Soke Parkway. When this was first built, in the mid-1970s, the A47 followed what is now the A1139 Paston Parkway. The three-mile £7.2m Eye Bypass opened in October 1991, diverting traffic from the Paston Parkway. A three-mile dual-carriageway bypass of Thorney opened on 14th December 2005. The half-mile £3.7m Guyhirn Diversion opened in October 1990. The five-mile £6m Wisbech /West Walton Bypass opened in Autumn 1984. The six-mile £23m dual-carriageway Walpole Highway/Tilney High End Bypass, in Norfolk , opened in summer 1996. From Kings Lynn, the road goes over the River Great Ouse , near to some Sugar Beet factories on a very busy dual-carriageway built in the 1970s. The A17 and A10 have their terminus here, and cause congestion. The half-mile £2.8m Narborough Bypass, in Norfolk, opened in November 1992. The five-mile £5m part-dual-carriageway Swaffham Bypass opened in June 1981. The seven-mile £5m part-dual-carriageway East Dereham Bypass opened in spring 1978, which crosses over a level crossing on the Mid-Norfolk Railway . The three-mile £9m East Dereham-North Tuddenham Improvement opened in August 1992, being built on an old disused railway line. The dual-carriageway £62m Norwich Bypass opened in September 1992. The section from the end of this bypass to Blofield , the one-mile £1.2m Postwick-Blofield Dualling, was opened in November 1987 The one-mile £4m dual-carriageway Blofield Bypass opened in February 1983. The three-mile £7.1m dual-carriageway Acle Bypass opned in March 1989. The northern section of the two-mile £19m Great Yarmouth Western Bypass opened in March 1986, and the southern section opened in May 1985. EXTERNAL LINKS |