The A47 is a trunk road in England linking Birmingham to Great Yarmouth (although most of the section between Birmingham and Nuneaton has been reclassified as the B4114). A trunk road or strategic road is a major road, usually connecting one or more cities, ports, airports etc, which is the recommended route for long-distance and freight traffic. ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... Jump to: navigation, search The city from above Centenary Square. ... There are other places named Yarmouth. ...

Humberstone Gate in Leicester (ex-A47)

From west to east, the road goes through: Humberstone Gate, in Leicester File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

• Birmingham
  • reclassified as B4114
• Nuneaton
• Hinckley
• Earl Shilton
• Leicester
  • subsumed into inner ringroad
• Uppingham
• Peterborough
• Wisbech
• King's Lynn
• Dereham
• Norwich
  • forms new southern by-pass (previously formed outer ringroad)
• Great Yarmouth

At Nuneaton, the road re-emerges from a junction with the A444, near a BP garage at the Anker service station on Weddington Road. Leaving Nuneaton, it passes a Total garage. It meets the A5 Watling Street, which it follows for a half-mile, then leaves at a roundabout to bypass Hinckley. This section passes through a large industrial estate and close to a Tesco. It passes a large Morrisons store next to a roundabout near Redmoor High School. It passes close to Barwell, then enters Earl Shilton, passing the Heathfield High School Near to the B582 crossroads, there is a BP 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. Jump to: navigation, search The city from above Centenary Square. ... Nuneaton is a town in the Nuneaton and Bedworth borough of northern Warwickshire in central England. ... Map sources for Hinckley at grid reference SP423943 Hinckley is a town in south-west Leicestershire, England. ... Earl Shilton is a large village or small town in Leicestershire, England, some 5 miles from Hinckley and about 10 miles (16 km) from Leicester, with a population of around 9,000 (as of 2005). ... Leicester (pronounced ) is a city in the English East Midlands, on the River Soar. ... Map sources for Uppingham at grid reference SP8699 Uppingham is a small town in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. ... Peterborough is a city in the east of England. ... Wisbech (pronounced wiz-beach) is a town with a population of about 19,000 in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire. ... Jump to: navigation, search Map sources for Kings Lynn at grid reference TF6120 Kings Lynn (usually known simply as Lynn locally) is a town in Norfolk, England (population 34,564) on the River Great Ouse. ... Dereham, also known as East Dereham, is a town in Norfolk, England. ... Norwich (pronounced variously Norritch or Norridge) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England, and the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. ... There are other places named Yarmouth. ... BP (formerly British Petroleum and briefly known as BP Amoco) LSE: BP, NYSE: BP is a petroleum company headquartered in London, and one of the top four oil companies in the world (along with Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total). ... Total SA (NYSE: TOT) is a multinational energy company, and one of the top four oil companies in the world (along with Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil). ... Jump to: navigation, search Marble Arch - the start of the A5 road The A5 is a major road in the United Kingdom. ... Watling Street was a Roman road which went from Dover on the southeast coast of England and is generally believed to have terminated at Viroconium (now Wroxeter in Shropshire). ... Jump to: navigation, search Tesco PLC is a United Kingdom-based international supermarket chain. ... Jump to: navigation, search Morrisons store in Morecambe, Lancashire Morrisons is the 4th largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ... Map sources for Barwell at grid ref. ... BP (formerly British Petroleum and briefly known as BP Amoco) LSE: BP, NYSE: BP is a petroleum company headquartered in London, and one of the top four oil companies in the world (along with Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total). ... Leicester Forest East (or LFE) is a settlement in Leicestershire, west of Leicester, straddling the M1 motorway. ... Jump to: navigation, search The M1 motorway heading south towards junction 37 at Barnsley. ... Leicester Forest East motorway service station is a motorway service station situated between junctions 21 and 21a of the M1 motorway, near Leicester, England. ... BP (formerly British Petroleum and briefly known as BP Amoco) LSE: BP, NYSE: BP is a petroleum company headquartered in London, and one of the top four oil companies in the world (along with Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total). ... The river in Leicester The River Soar is a tributary of the River Trent in the English East Midlands. ... The canal at Braunston The Grand Union Canal is a canal in England and part of the British canal system. ... The Midland Main Line is a main railway line in the United Kingdom and is part of the British railway system. ... Total SA (NYSE: TOT) is a multinational energy company, and one of the top four oil companies in the world (along with Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil). ... Humberstone is an urban village in Leicester, England. ... Royal Dutch Shell plc is a major energy company, one of the top four vertically integrated private sector oil/gas companies in the world (along with BP, ExxonMobil, and Total). ... Thurnby is a village just east of Leicesters city boundaries, in the Harborough district. ... Texaco was the name of an American oil company that was merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001. ...

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. Houghton on the Hill is a village lying six miles to the east of Leicester, in the East Midlands, United Kingdom. ... Leicester Sound is a radio station in Leicester, England. ... Leicestershire (abbreviated Leics) is a landlocked county in central England. ... Rutland is traditionally Englands smallest county and is bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire, and southeast by Northamptonshire. ... Map sources for Uppingham at grid reference SP8699 Uppingham is a small town in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. ... Uppingham School is an English public school in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland. ... Morcott is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. ... Jump to: navigation, search Little Chef is a chain of roadside restaurants in the United Kingdom, founded in 1958 and since 2002 a subsidiary of a Permira holding company that also owns Travelodge Hotels Ltd. ... Texaco was the name of an American oil company that was merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001. ... Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ... The River Welland is a river in the east of England, 56 km (35 m) long, and it has been a main waterway across the part of The Fens called South Holland for thousands of years. ... The A43 is a primary road in the English Midlands. ... Sign at Junction 1 of the A1(M) at South Mimms in Hertfordshire The A1, at 409 miles (658 km) long, is the longest numbered British road. ... RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station near Stamford, Cambridgeshire. ... Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. ... Castor is a village in the Soke of Peterborough in England. ...

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. There are plans for a three-mile dual-carriageway Thorney Bypass. 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. Thorney is the name of more than one place. ... Wisbech (pronounced wiz-beach) is a town with a population of about 19,000 in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire. ... For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ...

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. The Great Ouse at St Neots The River Great Ouse is a river in the east of England. ... Two sugar beets - the one on the left has been cultivated to be smoother than the traditional beet, so that it traps less soil. ... The A10 is a major road in England. ... Map sources for Swaffham at grid reference TF8109 Swaffham is a town (population 6935) in Norfolk, England and is named after an Anglo-Saxon tribe named the Swaefas. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the town had a flourishing sheep and wool industry. ... Map sources for East Dereham at grid reference TF9812 East Dereham, also known simply as Dereham, is a town in Norfolk, England. ... The Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust was established in 1995 with the aim of buying and restoring the then-disused line between the Norfolk market towns of Dereham and Wymondham. ... Map sources for Acle at grid reference TG4010 Acle is a small market town (population 2732) on the River Bure in Norfolk within The Broads National Park. ... There are other places named Yarmouth. ...

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