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Poets Corner

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Poets Corner
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Location
Small Heath
County
Warwickshire
Highway Authority
Birmingham
Junction Type
Roundabout
Roads Joined
A45 / B4145

Poets Corner is a roundabout in the Small Heath district of Central Birmingham. The island opened in the mid 1980's when the D2 Small Heath Highway section of the A45 was opened to try and alleviate the chronic traffic jams that used to occur on its old alignment slightly to the north (S2 section of Coventry Road). The junction was built to allow an underpass for the A45 to be added at a later date but this never happened.

Improvements were made in 2012 which widened the A45 approaches to three lanes. Further improvements were carried out in 2021 which added bus lanes to almost the whole length of the Small Heath Highway.

There is a large Muslim population in the district, consequently there are a lot of mosques in the immediate area including one just off the island itself.

Routes

Route To Notes

A45

Coventry, B'ham Airport/NEC, Sheldon, Yardley (A4040)

A45

City Centre 2, Ring Road 1, Bordesley 1

B4145

Saltley, Bordesley Green

B4145

Smallheath ¼, Sparkhill, 1 , Sparkbrook ¼(B4126) , Solihull





Poets Corner
Junctions on the A45
Birmingham - M1 SectionCamp Hill Flyover • Bordesley Circus • Poets Corner • Heybarne's Circus • Swan Island • Wells Green • Clock • Bickenhill • Stonebridge • Pickford Green • Tile Hill Gyratory • Stivichall • Tollbar End • Ryton Island • Memorial Island • Blue Boar • Thurlaston • Dunchurch • Kislingbury
M1 - Thrapston SectionCollingtree • Queen Eleanor • Brackmills • Barns Meadow • Lumbertubs Way • Great Billing • 10 Earls Barton • 11 Junction 11 • Willby Way Roundabout • 14 Little Irchester • 16 Irchester Bridge • 17 Skew Bridge Roundabout • 18 Chowns Mill Roundabout • Stanwick Roundabout • Raunds Island • Thrapston
Former Rushden - Felixstowe SectionSkew Bridge Roundabout • Hail Weston • Caxton Gibbet • Madingley • Girton • Histon • Milton • Fen Ditton • Quy • Nine Mile Hill • Exning • Waterhall • Kentford • Higham • Risby • Westley • St Saviours • Moreton Hall • Rookery Crossroads • Beyton • Woolpit • A14 Junction 47A • Quarries Cross • Tot Hill • Cedars • Beacon Hill • Claydon Roundabout • Barrack Corner • Whitehouse • Sproughton • Copdock • Wherstead • Nacton • Seven Hills • Trimley • Dock Spur Roundabout • Port of Felixstowe • Dock Gate 1 Roundabout

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