The A1023 is an A-road in

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that goes from junction 28 on the M25 through Brentwood to the A12. The road was originally a Roman road which linked

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. It opened in 1966, after the A12 was re-routed along the current Brentwood Bypass.

Route

The A1023 starts at junction 28 of the M25 (also known as Brook Street Interchange), and then heads northeast as Brook Street into Brentwood. While Going through Brentwood the road changes name to London Road, High Street, then Shenfield road, where it meets the A128 at Wilson's Corner junction. At Wilson's Corner northbound traffic follows Ongar Road towards

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and the A414, whilst southbound traffic follows Ingrave Road towards

Ingrave Ingrave is a village and former civil parish in the Brentwood in Essex, England. It is situated on and around the A128 road, 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of the town of Brentwood. Together with the adjoining village of Herongate, it now form ...

and then on to the Southend Arterial Road (A127). The road then continues northeast from Wilson's Corner, where it meets with the western end of the A129, which goes towards

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. It then continues as Chelmsford Road until it meets the A12 again at the Maryland Interchange.

History

When the roads were first numbered in 1922 the A1023 number was originally given to a small 1.5 mile (2.4 kilometers) long road in

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, going through Crimplesham from the A134 to the A1122 (then numbered the A47). The road was reclassified as a spur of the A134 in the 1935 Road numbering revision, but later became unclassified sometime after 1970. In 1966, after the A12 was re-routed along the current Brentwood Bypass, the former route was allocated the A1023, with the west end of the road slightly shifted to make room for a new roundabout.

Junctions

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Great Warley Great Warley is a village in the Warley ward of Brentwood borough in Essex, England. It is situated to the far south west of the county and near to the Greater London boundary and the M25 motorway. Consecrated in 1904, the Grade I listed parish ...

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