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Chiswick Roundabout

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Chiswick Roundabout
Location Map ( geo)
Chiswick Roundabout - Geograph - 682887.jpg
The junction in 2008.
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Location
Chiswick, London
County
Middlesex
Highway Authority
National Highways • Transport for London
Junction Type
Roundabout Interchange
Roads Joined
M4, A4, A205, A315, A406
Junctions related to the A315

Chiswick Roundabout (junction 1 of the M4) is one of the oldest motorway junctions in Britain, opening in 1959. This was some years before the rest of the M4 was built. It is made up of the Chiswick Roundabout and the Chiswick Flyover.

This flyover is clad with brickwork and on the westbound side it easy to see where they built over the original section. Today it is more notable as the Western meeting point of the North & South Circular Roads therefore it is a very busy junction.

Guunersbury Lane (now Gunnersbury Avenue) originally met Chiswick High Road at a T Junction known as Gunnersbury Place. The Great West Road to the west of here was built as a single carriageway in the 1920s; it was soon dualled. A bank, and industrial buildings such as the motor works, were attracted to the junction.

A large housing estate was developed on the south side of the junction. Some of this had to be demolished to build the east end of the Great West Road, and the new Chiswick Flyover. Just four houses from Surrey Crescent survive; they are now next to the eastbound onslip. The bank did survive but was later demolished anyway.

Routes

Route To Notes

M4

The WEST, Heathrow Airport, Staines, Hounslow access only from A4 from Central London - otherwise via A4

A4

The WEST, Heathrow Airport, Staines, Hounslow, (M4) meets M4 at junction 2

A4

Central London, Hammersmith

A205

S Circular, (A316) (M3) (A3), Richmond, Kew, Brentford (A315)

A406

N Circular, (A40) (M1), Wembley, Ealing

A315

Chiswick, Chiswick Town Hall

A4000

Acton




Chiswick Roundabout
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Chiswick Flyover. Circa 1959 without M4 - Coppermine - 15245.jpgChiswick Roundabout - Geograph - 682887.jpg17. Approaching Chiswick - Coppermine - 1851.JPG18. Chiswick Flyover - Coppermine - 1850.JPG
Junctions on the M4
Main RouteChiswick • 2 Brentford • 3 Cranford Parkway • 4 Heathrow • 4B Thorney • 5 Langley • 6 Tuns Lane • 7 Huntercombe • 8/9 Holyport • 10 Winnersh • 11 Three Mile Cross • 12 Theale • 13 Chieveley • 14 Wickham • 15 Plough Hill • 16 Spittleborough • 17 Stanton St Quintin • 18 Tormarton • 19 Hambrook • 20 Almondsbury • 21 Awkley • 22 Pilning • 23 Rogiet • 23A Magor • 24 Coldra • 25 Caerleon • 25A Grove Park • 26 Malpas • 27 High Cross • 28 Tredegar Park • 29 Castleton • 30 Pentwyn • 31 Junction 31 • 32 Coryton • 33 Cardiff West • 34 Miskin • 35 Pencoed • 36 Sarn • 37 Pyle • 38 Margam • 39 Groes • 40 Taibach • 41 Pentyla • 42 Earlswood • 43 Llandarcy • 44 Lon-Las • 45 Ynysforgan • 46 Llangyfelach • 47 Penllergaer • 48 Hendy • 49 Pont Abraham
Heathrow SpurCherry Lane • 4 Heathrow • 4A Concord
Former RoutesBray • 9A Cox Green • 9B The Thicket // 19 Hambrook • 19A Frenchay // 20 Almondsbury • 21 Aust • 22 Newhouse • 23 Magor // 28  Tredegar Park • 29 St Mellons
Defunct Newport
Bypass Proposal
23 Rogiet • 25 Glan Llyn • 27 Dock Way • 29 Castleton
Junctions on the A4
Monument • Ludgate Circus • Holborn Circus • Trafalgar Square • Charing Cross • Piccadilly Circus • Hyde Park Corner • Scotch House • Hammersmith Flyover • Hogarth Roundabout • Chiswick Roundabout • Brentford • Gillette Corner • Henlys Roundabout • Waggoners Roundabout • Harlington Corner • Concord Roundabout • Moor Junction • Langley • Huntercombe Spur • The Thicket • Sutton Seeds • Theale • Robin Hood Roundabout • Kings Roundabout • Canal Roundabout • Webbington Roundabout • Bridge Roundabout • Rowden Roundabout • The Pheasant • Meuthen Park • Chequers • London Road Junction • Twerton Fork • The Globe • Broadmead • Hicks Gate Roundabout • Bath Bridge • Temple Circus • Cumberland Basin • Lawrence Weston Interchange (Portway Roundabout • St Brendans Roundabout) • St Andrews Gate Roundabout
Junctions on the North and South Circular Roads
North CircularChiswick Roundabout • Gunnersbury Park • Ealing Common • Hanger Lane • Park Royal • Stonebridge Park • Neasden Junction • Staples Corner • Brent Cross • Henlys Corner • High Road • Colney Hatch • Clockhouse Junction • Great Cambridge Junction • Angel Edmonton • Kenninghall • Cooks Ferry • Hall Lane • Crooked Billet • Waterworks Corner • Gates Corner • Child's Corner • Woodford • Charlie Browns • Redbridge • Ilford Bridge • Wallend • Beckton Roundabout • Gallions Roundabout
South CircularWell Hall Roundabout • Yorkshire Grey • Cliftons Roundabout • Catford Gyratory • Forest Hill • The Grove • Tulse Hill • Wandsworth Gyratory • Red Rover • Milestone Green • Chalkers Corner • Kew Green • Kew Bridge • Chiswick Roundabout

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