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| A414 road | |
| Direction | West-East |
| Start | Hemel Hempstead |
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St Albans Watford Hatfield Hertford Harlow Stansted Airport Chelmsford |
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| End | Maldon |
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The A414 is a major road in England. It runs from the A41 at a junction west of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, through the town to junction 8 of the M1 motorway at Buncefield, and running parallel to the M1 until junction 7, heading south of St Albans, east through Hatfield, Hertford, then across the A10 and into Essex through Harlow, Chipping Ongar and Chelmsford before terminating at Maldon.
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History
The section between the M1 and the Park Street roundabout junction south of St Albans was formerly classified as the M10 motorway. This was downgraded to A road status on 1 May 2009[1], following the completion of the M1 widening between junctions 7 and 8 of the M1.
Between the (former) M10 junction at Park Street, and the A1 junction, the A414 is named the North Orbital Road, which reflects the planners' intent to build an outer orbital road around London.
The North Orbital Road route was never completed, the planners opting in the end to build the M25 orbital motorway instead. Indeed, the section of the M25 between the Hunton Bridge Interchange, Watford (J19) and Maple Cross, Rickmansworth (J17) originally opened as the A405 North Orbital Road.
This route has always connected Hemel Hempstead and Maldon, but over the years it has changed so much that it is almost completely new. The original route from Hemel Hempstead to St Albans followed the course of what is now the A4147, then from St Albans to Hatfield on the course of what are now the A1057 and B6426. The villages of Cole Green, Birch Green, and Staines Green were bypassed in the 1990s by a new dual carriageway that linked into the 1970s Hertingfordbury bypass. On the other side of Hertford, the A414 took what is now the A119 Ware Road, and then diverged along the course of the current B1502 and B181 from Hertford to Stanstead Abbotts.
Most of the Essex section (between the Talbot at Tylers Green and Writtle) was originally the A122. The original A414 road bypassed Harlow to the north, travelling through High Wych on what is now an unclassified road, and travelling through Sawbridgeworth to meet what is now the A1060 at Hatfield Heath, which it followed through to Chelmsford. In Chelmsford itself, the road numbers have been subject to change several times over the last three or four decades, with the A12, A130 and A414 having been rerouted many times over that period.
Proposed Developments
M11 Junction 7 to Southern Way, Harlow
 Developments in and around Harlow. |
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| Location | Essex |
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| Proposer | Essex County Council |
| cost estimate | £9.9 million |
| start date | 2010 |
| completion date | March 2011 |
| Geometry | KML |
Essex County Council has proposed to dual the A414 between junction 7 of the M11 to Southern Way in Harlow at an estimated cost of £9.9 million. The development began on the 16th of November 2009 and has a proposed completion date by March 2011.[2] Also included in the plans are improved pedestrian crossings at the London Road junction, the Southern Way roundabout and at Junction 7 of the M11 as well as work on the Latton Common subway. Essex County Council list some of the goals of the development as reducing congestion, increasing junction capacity and preparing for new housing development in the area.
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