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In Stockport we still refer to the junction of the M60 J2 spur and the A560 as Roscoe's Roundabout, even thought the D-I-Y warehouse it took its name from has not been there for over 25 years. Are there any other examples of junctions that continue to be called after landmarks that have long since disappeared?

The junction of the A56 and the A50 on the outskirts of Warrington was referred to for many years as the Dog & Dart even after the pub had been relocated in the 1960s a few hundred yards down the road. And the relocated pub has now closed too :(
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Charlie Brown's, the roundabout under M11 J4.
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The Coal House roundabout on the A1 (junction for Team Valley, Gateshead). The radio still calls it that as it used to be next to the northern headquaters of the National Coal Board. But they were demolished at least 20 years ago, maybe more.
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The Swan House roundabout over the A167(M), although the building there hasn't been called Swan House since it ceased to house British Telecom about 10 years ago.
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Elephant & Castle, Wolverhampton is named after a pub that is no more.

I would imagine that quite a large number of these will end up as being pubs...
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Steven wrote:I would imagine that quite a large number of these will end up as being pubs...
Indeed, given the current trend for the wholesale closure of pubs, the traditional British method of giving directions is rapidly becoming something more like "turn left at the lights by the site of the Red Lion, then straight ahead by the boarded-up Dog & Partridge, fork right by the McDonalds in the old Crown, then left again at the block of flats where the King’s Head used to be." :(

Is the Sun in the Sands still going as a pub?
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Mitcham's Corner is named after a shop that was long gone when I arrived in Cambridge in 1990.
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The A456/A4123 junction was long known as the "Warley Odeon" after the cinema on one corner (later a bingo hall). This was demolished in the late 70s and an anonymous office block put up in its place, initially for Albright and Wilson, now in multiple occupation, and with no particular name. The junction remained colloquially known, however, as the "Warley Odeon" for many years, but memories have now faded, and the signs now bear the name "Beech Lanes Cross". Sad.
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Surely the most famous example?
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Is the Stewponey junction (A458/A449 between Stourbridge and Kinver) still referred to as such? The hotel of that name was demolished shortly after I moved away from the area.
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One rather brazen example. Sandyknowes Roundabout on the M2 in north Belfast - named after Sandyknowes, a house which was demolished to make way for the roundabout..... mmm.
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On London's North Circular

Crooked Billet = A406/A112

Cambridge Roundabout = A406/A10

Both after Pubs

Henley's Corner = A406/A598 [Car dealership]

Staples Corner = A406/A5 [ Furniture Dealer ?]
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FosseWay wrote:Is the Stewponey junction (A458/A449 between Stourbridge and Kinver) still referred to as such? The hotel of that name was demolished shortly after I moved away from the area.
I expect so. "Stourton" would just be too bland, and the bridge on the Bridgnorth road over the canal is still id'd as Stewponey Bridge on OS Explorer.
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Chris Bertram wrote:
FosseWay wrote:Is the Stewponey junction (A458/A449 between Stourbridge and Kinver) still referred to as such? The hotel of that name was demolished shortly after I moved away from the area.
I expect so. "Stourton" would just be too bland, and the bridge on the Bridgnorth road over the canal is still id'd as Stewponey Bridge on OS Explorer.
Yes, it's definately still Stewponey, and if memory serves, it's signed as that too.
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How about Bullington Cross now that the pub is boarded up.
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Wilson's Corner is the junction of the A128 and A1023 in Brentwood named after a large furniture retailer formely situated on the corner. The shop has gone through several different hands and names since the original store's closure.

Fortune of War was the name of the pub and junction at Laindon on the A127. The pub went and the roundabout was changed to ban circular movement on each carriageway, so remains only as a strange kink in the road with a left turn for each half. So both the pub and the roundabout are defunct! The name remains though.
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Truvelo wrote:How about Bullington Cross now that the pub is boarded up.
I imagine in that case the pub took its name from the junction, not the other way round.
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I don't have any to add, but thanks for the info about Roscoe's Roundabout. I'd occasionally wondered why people at work referred to it by that name.
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Quick vote...

Does Birmingham's "The Bull Ring" count?
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A40 at the Target Roundabout was named after the pub, but is now a McDonald's.

Bignall's Corner on the A1 roundabout was named after the Garden Centre which used to be there. Now of course more famous for the M25 / South Mimms.

You could argue about the A40 at the Hoover Building which is now a Tesco, though that is more of a land mark than a junction.
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