A428 road

A428 road shield

A428 road

The bridge over the River Great Ouse
Route information
Length: 82.9 mi[1] (133.4 km)
Major junctions
Northwest end: Coventry
52°24′31″N 1°29′33″W / 52.4087°N 1.4925°W / 52.4087; -1.4925
  A4600 A4600 road
A444 A444 road
A4082 A4082 road
A46 A46 road
A4071 A4071 road
A426 A426 road
A5 A5 road
[[Image:Motorway Left.svg|[ |x30px|link=]] M1 motorway
A4500 A4500 road
A5080 A5080 road
A508 A508 road
A5120 A5120 road
A4501 A4501 road
A45 A45 road
A509 A509 road
A422 A422 road
A5141 A5141 road
A6 A6 road
A5140 A5140 road
A421 A421 road
A1 A1 road
A1198 A1198 road
A1303 A1303 road
A14 A14 road
Southeast end: Cambridge
52°13′55″N 0°04′40″E / 52.2319°N 0.0779°E / 52.2319; 0.0779
Location
Primary
destinations
:
Rugby
Northampton
Bedford
Cambridge
Coventry
Road network

The A428 road is a major road in central and eastern England. It connects the cities of Coventry and Cambridge by way of the county towns of Northampton and Bedford.

Route

Coventry - Northampton

The road starts on the A4600 Sky Blue Way in Coventry, heading Eastbound out of the city meeting the A444 and A4082 roads before crossing the A46 Eastern Bypass and into Warwickshire. The road then passes through the village of Binley Woods before becoming more rural in nature, meeting the Fosse Way and crossing the River Avon at Bretford. 3.8 miles (6.1 km) further along, the road enters Rugby where it meets the A4071 and A426 and passes Rugby School. It then continues out of the town to the east through the suburb of Hillmorton and crosses the A5 near Daventry International Railfreight Terminal (DIRFT). It meets the M1 at its original terminus, junction 18, and bypasses the towns of Crick and West Haddon. The road passes the Althorp family estate, then enters the town of Northampton.

Northampton - Cambridge

East of Northampton the road passes Little Houghton, Brafield-on-the-Green and Yardley Hastings. After here it enters Bedfordshire and the Borough of Bedford then meets the A509 at a roundabout. Continuing towards Bedford the road passes Lavendon, Cold Brayfield, Turvey and Bromham. It meets the A422 (for Milton Keynes north) at a roundabout entering Bedford.

The A428 route here is a concurrency with the A421, bypassing Bedford, Great Barford and Roxton (bypass opened on 24 August 2006), then at the Black Cat Roundabout joins the dual-carriageway A1 bypassing Wyboston. This £120,000 section of dual carriageway opened in 1959. The route leaves the A1 just south of St Neots. The first mile (1.6 km) of the 3-mile (4.8 km) St Neots bypass is also the boundary between Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Where it is crossed by the East Coast Main Line, it enters Cambridgeshire and the district of Huntingdonshire. The A428 from here to Cambridge follows the former A45, which became the A428 when the A14 opened. The road enters the district of South Cambridgeshire. It meets the A1198 (former A14) at Caxton Gibbet roundabout near Papworth Everard. From here the road is dual carriageway, bypassing the existing single carriageway section near Hardwick. The road terminates, merging into the A14 at Girton interchange, where traffic joins first from the M11 junction 14 and then from the trunk A14 road junction 31.

History

Bypasses and realignments

Recent Improvements

References

  1. "Directions to A428". Google. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  2. "Bromham Timeline". Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire Libraries. 23 May 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  3. "£55m 'commuter relief' road opens". BBC. 24 May 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  4. "Highways Agency".

Coordinates: 52°09′43″N 0°37′06″W / 52.16193°N 0.61841°W / 52.16193; -0.61841

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