Girton Interchange

Girton Interchange
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Type  :	Unique
Roads Joined  :	A14, M11, A428, A1307
Location  :	Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Junctions on the M11
Angel Birchanger Green Roundabout Duxford Interchange Hackney Wick Interchange Haggis Farm Interchange Hastingswood Interchange Loughton Interchange M11 J13 M11 J8B M11 J9 Priory Wood Roundabout Stump Cross Interchange Theydon Bois Interchange Westfield Interchange Woodford Interchange
Junctions on the A428
Barns Meadow Interchange Black Cat Roundabout Caxton Gibbet Crick Interchange Marsh Leys Roundabout Water End Junction

Major junction between the A14 (J31), M11 (J14), A428 and A1307, north-west of Cambridge. Due to be rebuilt as part of the Ellington-Fen Ditton A14 upgrade.

History

Originally, all that was here was a simple T-junction between the A604 Huntingdon Road and The Avenue, which is the minor road on the north side of the junction heading towards the nearby village of Madingley. In 1977 the A45 Cambridge Northern Bypass opened, followed soon after by the M11 Western Bypass, which both met the newly dualled A604 at this site.

By the early 90's, most of the road numbering in the area had changed. Most of the former main routes through Cambridge had lost their original numbers, with the pre-bypass A45 becoming the A1303, while the A604 between Girton and Fourwentways had become the A1307. The planned A14 promptly took over the A45 route east of Girton and the A604 route north of it, while the A428 was extended east from its previous terminus of the Black Cat Roundabout to take over the former A45 from St Neots to Girton. As such, by the late 90's, only the M11 remained with the same number as it had opened with at the junction.

All the renumbering had changed the traffic flows of course, with major East-West traffic now using the A14 route rather than the former A45 route. With North-South traffic between the M11 and A1 also using the now highly congested stretch between Girton and Huntingdon, the junction was included in plans for an upgrade to the A14 between Ellington and Fen Ditton which will involve a major rebuilding.

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Grid References

• Girton, Cambridge: TL411621

CBRD

• Bad Junctions: M11-A14-A428 (Girton)

Girton Interchange

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Junctions on the A14 Catthorpe  • 1 Junction 1  • 2 Junction 2  • 3 Orton  • 4 Junction 4  • 5 Junction 5  • 6 Junction 6  • 7 Glebe Farm  • 8 Broughton  • 9 Wicksteed Park  • 10 Junction 10 11 Junction 11  • 12 Junction 12  • 13 Thrapston  • 14 Junction 14  • 15 Junction 15  • 16 Fox Road  • 17 Leighton Bromswold  • 18 Junction 18  • 19 Junction 19  • 20 Junction 20 Proposed Diversion: New Ellington  • Brampton  • Ermine Street  • Fen Drayton A14(M) & Spur: Alconbury North  • Alconbury East  • Spittals 21 Brampton Hut  • 22 Junction 22  • Spittals  • 24 Godmanchester  • 25 Hemingford Abbots  • 26 Galley Hill  • 27 Fenstanton  • 28 Trinity Foot  • 29 Bar Hill  • 30 Dry Drayton 31 Girton  • 32 Histon  • 33 Milton  • 34 Fen Ditton  • 35 Quy  • 36 Nine Mile Hill  • 37 Exning  • 38 Waterhall  • 39 Junction 39  • 40 Higham  • 41 Risby 42 Westley  • 43 St Saviours  • 44 Moreton Hall  • 45 Rookery Crossroads  • 46 Beyton  • 47 Woolpit  • 47A Junction 47A  • 48 Quarries Cross  • 49 Tot Hill 50 Cedars  • 51 Beacon Hill  • 52 Claydon Roundabout  • 53 Whitehouse  • 54 Sproughton  • 55 Copdock  • 56 Wherstead  • 57 Nacton 58 Seven Hills  • 59 Trimley  • 60 Dock Spur Roundabout  • 61 Port of Felixstowe  • 62 Dock Gate 1 Roundabout

Junctions on the M11 4 Woodford  • 5 Loughton  • 6 Theydon Bois  • 7 Hastingswood  • 8 Birchanger Green  • 8A Priory Wood  • 9 Junction 9  • 9A Stump Cross  • 10 Duxford  • 11 Westfield  • 12 Haggis Farm  • 13 Junction 13  • 14 Girton

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