The A12 terminates in the town as do the A143 and the A47 roads.

The town is shown on the milestone as from London via the A145 Blythburgh and A12 road, northeast of London as the crow flies, southeast of Norwich, and north northeast of the county town of Ipswich.

Starting in the 1980s but accelerating in the 1990s and 2000s a large number of houses were built in several estates to the south and southwest of the town infilling the farmland that used to exist between the town and the A12 bypass.

Originally the A12 ran in a straight line through the middle of the town ; however for some decades there has been a by-pass completely avoiding the town.

A significant industrial presence remains in the town, mainly concentrated on three industrial estates on the eastern side of the town close to the junction with the A12.

To the north of the town is the A120, which meets the A10 at Buntingford to the west and the A12 at Colchester to the east.

There are two parks, Seymour Field ( named in 1977 after ' Skip ' Seymour, a former headteacher of a local school, and previously known as Transport Meadow, having been donated to the town by the Ministry of Transport after the construction of the A12 bypass in 1958-59 ), and the Fairfield ( historic site of village fairs, and still privately owned by the Petre family and leased to the parish council ).

Stanway is located approximately three miles west of Colchester town centre on the B1408 ( former A12 ), near the junction of the A12 and the A1124 at Eight Ash Green.

It is on the A12 trunk road thirteen miles north-east of the county town of Ipswich, five miles north-east of Woodbridge.

The A12 now partly forms the border between Bennekom parish and the town of Ede.

The town is bypassed by the A12 and is served by Saxmundham railway station on the East Suffolk Line.

The A12 ( near Romford ) and the A13 ( near Rainham ) are the main trunk radial routes from central London and are located to the north and south of the borough respectively.

The N781 provincial road connects Wageningen to the A12 national highway, to the north of the city.

The A12 motorway runs north of Westervoort and has an exit serving both Westervoort and the western parts of Duiven.

There have been plans for a connection to the A12 motorway to the north ( to facilitate for a better connection from the western parts of Houten ) since 2002, but since this road needs to be built across land of the neighbouring municipality Bunnik, these plans are blocked by NIMBY lobby groups.

Nieuwegein is surrounded by three Motorways ( Dutch: autosnelweg ), the A2 to the west, the A12 to the north and the A27 to the east.

It is next to the A12 motorway, which forms the southern border of the wijk, and directly north of the Zoetermeer railway station ( which is on the other side of A12 ).

In the southwest of the city centre, the A138 meets the A414 at The Army and Navy roundabout which is notorious for its traffic congestion, even though the north – south road at this point is no longer part of the A12.

The northern approach takes traffic from the A12 and the southern approach takes traffic from the A2, making the tunnel crossing a key link for both local and longer-distance traffic between the north and south sides of the river.

Billericay is close to two primary routes: the A12 to the north and the A127 in the south.

The area is bisected north to south by the Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road ( A12 ) and the boundary of the area to the east is the River Lea and the London Borough of Newham.

It runs roughly north east from London to Norwich, Norfolk, although after the M11 opened in the 1970s and then the A12 extension in 1999, a lengthy section has been downgraded between the suburbs of east London and the north-west corner of the county of Essex.

The A14 connects the port to the English Midlands via the M6, the north via the M1 and M6 and A1 and via the A12 to London.

The original station building, which was very similar to Chigwell tube station ( further north on the Loop ), was demolished in 1956 to facilitate widening of the adjacent A12 Eastern Avenue.

The boundary to the north extended beyond the A127 and A12 to include Harold Wood and Harold Hill.

Just west of the village runs the north – south N781 highway, linking Wageningen to Ede and to the A12 motorway, which provides easy access to Holland in the west and Germany in the east.

In the Middle Ages, Bennekom had four castles or fortified farmsteads: Harslo Castle about west of the village ; Nergena Castle just west of highway N781 ; Hoekelum Castle north of motorway A12 ; and the Ham north-west of the village.

It is also close to the A102 road semi-motorway which connects to the A2 road to the south and to the north the Blackwall Tunnel crossing of the Thames River connecting to Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, the A12 road running north and the A13 road running east and west.

There is a borough council ward bearing the name ' Pilgrims Hatch ' which covers the Bishops Hall and Flower estates ( the urban area north of the A12 ) and a small rural area to the north up to Ashwells Road and Days Lane.

Also at Witham is access to the main A12 road that runs through Essex.

This is facilitated by easy access to the A12 and the M25 and rail services.

The Central line of the London Underground serves the south of the borough, running alongside the A12 road with stations at Leyton and Leytonstone.

The relief road was built along the path of the old railway to carry the A12 onwards to Lowestoft and London.

The A12 ( Eastern Avenue ), which runs through Collier Row at its southern end, leads to London and the east coast of Essex, and crosses the M25 on its eastern section.

The main London to Colchester A12 trunk road which evolved from the Great East Road originally built by the Romans to connect London and Colchester, used to pass through the city but is now diverted around the east.

It has congested road links to the Midlands via the A14 and to London via the A12 road.

The M11 link road protest was a major anti-road protest in east London, United Kingdom, in the early 1990s opposing the construction of the " A12 Hackney to M11 link road ", also known as the M11 Link Road.

The Docklands Light Railway follows the path of the long-disused North London Railway from Bow Church to Poplar and the northern section of the East Cross Route ( A12 ) built in the late 1960s used the route between Old Ford and Victoria Park stations, which were demolished during the road's construction.

It is from London just off the A12 between Colchester and Ipswich.

Ingatestone was established in Saxon times on the Essex Great Road ( A12 ) that runs between the two Roman towns of London and Colchester.

Local legend holds that highwayman Dick Turpin rode the A12 on his famous ride from London to York, although historians now believe the ride never occurred.

The E 30, which follows the A12 from London to Ipswich, and then the A14 from Ipswich to the port of Felixstowe, forms a continuation of the route to the North Sea.

The A127 starts as a turning off the A12 at Gallows Corner in the London Borough of Havering.

Traffic heading towards London goes over a flyover and joins the A12 traffic which merges onto the slip-road from the roundabout below, which is where the A127 ends.

* West: A12 ( Eastern Avenue East ), towards central London.

The site covers parts of Stratford, Bow, Leyton, and Hackney Wick in East London, overlooking the A12 road.