A11 road (Great Britain)

A11 road
Route information
Maintained by Highways England and London Streets
Length:	112.4 mi (180.9 km)
Major junctions
Western end:	Aldgate, City of London
	A1210 A1202 road A13 road A12 road A118 road M11 motorway A505 road A1307 road A1304 road A14 road (A142 road) A14 road A1101 road A1065 road A134 road (South) A1066 road A134 road (North) A1075 road A47 road A140 road A147 road
Eastern end:	Norwich
Location
Primary destinations:	Stratford Newmarket Thetford Bishop's Stortford Harlow Woodford
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones

The location of the proposed Fiveways – Thetford Improvement
Location	Suffolk, Norfolk
Proposer	Highways Agency
Cost estimate	£113-157m (8/08)
Start date	2012
Completion date	2015
Stakeholders	Highways Agency
Geometry	KML

The A11 is a major trunk road in England. It runs roughly north east from London to Norwich, Norfolk, although after the M11 opened in the 1970s and then the A12 extension in 1999, a lengthy section has been downgraded between the suburbs of east London and the north-west corner of the county of Essex. It also multiplexes/overlaps with the A14 on the Newmarket bypass.

All this part has been declassified and is now a minor road. Thus the A11 now starts at Aldgate, just inside the eastern boundary of the City of London. The first stretch is Aldgate High Street, passing south of Aldgate tube station. Traffic is one way round the Aldgate one-way system.

East of Aldgate station, the A11 enters the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the East End of London. It becomes Whitechapel High Street (containing Aldgate East tube station), again part of the Aldgate one-way system. The A11 passes through Whitechapel, past Whitechapel tube station and the Royal London Hospital. It becomes Mile End Road at the eastern end of Whitechapel Road, at Mile End Gate, the former toll gate for the turnpike, passing Stepney Green tube station, with Stepney to the south, and then Mile End tube station. Next, it becomes Bow Road, passing Bow Road tube station and Bow Church DLR station.