The A240 is a partially

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A road in Surrey and Greater London that connects the A217 with the A3 and continues beyond through Surbiton to

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. The road is long and is dualled as the

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bypass and thereafter to

Tolworth Tolworth is a suburban area in the Surbiton district, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London. It is southwest of Charing Cross. Neighbouring places include Long Ditton, New Malden, Kingston, Surbiton, Berrylands, Hinchley Wood, ...

Broadway. In conjunction with the A3 it provides an alternative to the congested A24 corridor through Morden and Merton.

Route

The A240 runs through three boroughs. Starting in Burgh Heath (

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); most of its course is a direct route skirting Ewell (

Epsom and Ewell Epsom and Ewell () is a local government district with borough status and unparished area in Surrey, England, covering the towns of Epsom and Ewell. The borough was formed as an urban district in 1894, and was known as Epsom until 1934. It was ...

) and its finishing section through Tolworth, Surbiton and the south of Kingston in the

Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is a borough in southwest London. The main town is Kingston upon Thames and it includes Surbiton, Chessington, Malden Rushett, New Malden and Tolworth. It is the oldest of the four royal boroughs in Eng ...

the A240's Greater London borough.

Reigate and Banstead

Branching off the A217 on at Burgh Heath, at the north of a

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of the

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at 178m OD,Grid Reference Finder.com Elevation Tools
/ref> the road descends northwest passing the large village of ''Great Burgh'' or ''Epsom Downs'' as a single carriageway primary road, through traffic-lit crossroad junctions with the suburban B2221 (Tattenham Way and Great Tattenhams) . The B2221 branches off and after there is a junction for Yew Tree Bottom Road (B284) from the west. Just after the A240 meets the A2022 from the east; it crosses the Sutton and Mole Valley

Epsom Downs Epsom Downs is an area of chalk upland near Epsom, Surrey; in the North Downs. Part of the area is taken up by the racecourse, the gallops are part of the land purchased by Stanly Wootton in 1925 and are open to users such as ramblers, model ...

branch line immediately before exiting the borough.

Epsom and Ewell

The road enters the

Borough of Epsom and Ewell Epsom and Ewell () is a local government district with borough status and unparished area in Surrey, England, covering the towns of Epsom and Ewell. The borough was formed as an urban district in 1894, and was known as Epsom until 1934. It was ...

just before A2022 heads west into Epsom at a roundabout. After, the A240 continues on its descent through a short stretch of tree-lined open space including the grounds of NESCOT, the route resumes its tree-lined suburban street verges in the highest outskirts of Ewell. At the bottom of this incline the elevation reaches 45m OD and the

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joins from the southwest. After meeting the A24 the gradient slows it runs concurrently with the A24 road as the

Bypass and becomes a dual carriageway. The bypass shortly afterwards meets the B2200 at the crossroads with the start of the A232. At the next crossroads, the A24 heads off north-east, when meeting the B2200 again, whilst the bypass continues, as the A240 north-west and is the boundary between Ewell and Stoneleigh. It becomes Kingston Road at the Beggars Hill Roundabout with Park Avenue West heading east into Stoneleigh, passing near to the Alex Gurteen Recreation Ground. The road then goes under the railway line near Stoneleigh railway station with the Ewell Court neighbourhood to the west. The road then passes Stoneleigh Park Road traffic lights, for the railway station, or Bradford Drive, and Thorndon Gardens traffic lights. See traffic mentioned below. The road bisects a northern spur of West Ewell where it meets the B284, again, at Ruxley Lane. The B284 then branches off at the next junction on Worcester Park Road just before non-humped Tolworth Court Bridge over the Hogsmill stream.

Greater London

The A240 then enters the

in Greater London as it goes over the

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, a

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of the

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at Tolworth Court Bridge. It then goes under another railway bridge by Tolworth railway station before crossing the A3 at the Tolworth Junction, a

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roundabout, which the A3 takes uninterrupted. In rush hour, traffic jams from Tolworth junction can stretch to the junction with Thorndon Gardens. Now as a non-primary road and a single carriageway road again, the A240 continues north-west as commercial Tolworth Broadway passing a well-known landmark, Tolworth Tower, before becoming longer Ewell Road which gently ascends from 24 to 32m where it crosses the

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northeast of Surbiton railway station. The road turns north-by-northwest with the tangent before this bend being a short link road ( A3210) the first of three straight roads to central Surbiton. In north Surbiton it winds downhill quickly between has two junctions with roads that form the B3363 to central Surbiton. From then on it heads straight towards the B3365, the link road to the A307 where the road bends to the north. It passes County Hall and

Kingston University , mottoeng = "Through Learning We Progress" , established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute , type = Public , endowment = £2.3 m (2015) , ...

(Penrhyn Road) as the road approaches its end at a roundabout by Kingston College and the Hogsmill River in Kingston

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. Bus lanes are incorporated in the Greater London section between the junction with the A3 and its terminus at Kingston.

Notes and references

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External links

SABRE Roads by Ten - A240
{{DEFAULTSORT:2-0240 Roads in London Transport in Epsom and Ewell Transport in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Roads in Surrey