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The M25 London Orbital Motorway, the railway line between Southend and London Fenchurch Street which provides direct access to Central London and, eventually, Stratford International Station, the Port of Tilbury and the nearby London City Airport make Thurrock an important international trade centre.
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M25 and London
The M25 motorway, or London Orbital motorway is a motorway that ( almost ) encircles Greater London, England, in the United Kingdom.
In some places ( Enfield, Hillingdon and Havering ) the Greater London boundary has been realigned to the M25 for minor stretches ; while in others, most notably in Essex and Surrey, it is many miles distant.
North Ockendon is the only settlement of Greater London situated outside the M25.
In 2004, following an opinion poll, a move was mooted by the London Assembly to align the Greater London boundary with the M25.
" Inside the M25 " and " outside the M25 " or " beyond the M25 " are used colloquially to refer to London and the provinces ; the Communications Act 2003 explicitly uses the M25 as the boundary in requiring a proportion of television programmes to be made outside the London area.
The M25 between junction 24 ( A111 road ( England ) | A111, Potters Bar ) and 25 ( A10 road | A10, Waltham Cross & London Borough of Enfield | Enfield ).
The town is within the western bounds of the M25 motorway and located 17 miles ( 27 km ) west south-west of Charing Cross in London.
Strategic road connections are possible from the M25 to the line via the nearby Ebbsfleet International station, allowing onward travel into London or into France and continental Europe.
The Metropolitan line and the Central line are the only two Underground routes with stations outside the boundaries of Greater London and the M25 orbital motorway.
The A4 Great West Road joins with the A3006 Bath Road ( from the A315 ) before Henlys Roundabout which is in Hounslow West from which a WNW route passes London Heathrow Airport, terminals 1 to 3 and terminal 5 as the Bath Road and a WSW route, the A30, passes terminal 4, bypasses Staines and reaches the M25 ; the remainder is for the mostpart a minor route to Land's End, Cornwall.
The town is located at the eastern end of the M20 which provides fast access to Ashford, Maidstone, London and also to the M25.
One example is on Britain's M25 motorway, which circumnavigates London.
A WNW route passes London Heathrow Airport Terminals 1 – 3 and 5 as the Bath Road and a WSW route, the A30, passes Terminal 4, bypasses Staines and reaches the M25 ; the remainder is for the most part a minor route to Land's End, Cornwall.
The buildings were demolished in 1982 < ref >< cite > History of the Eastern Hospital ( at Archive in London and the M25 ) accessed: 20 October 2006 </ ref > and the site became the core of the modern Homerton University Hospital.
These buildings are now used by the Hackney Mental Health Trust .< ref >< cite > History of Hackney Hospital and the Union Workhouse ( at Archive in London and the M25 ) accessed: 20 October 2006 </ ref >
The A2 road gives the area rapid access to the London Inner Ring Road, the South Circular Road, London and the M25 London Orbital Motorway.
M25 and Orbital
Wisley gives its name to the nearby road intersection of the A3 London to Portsmouth trunk road and the London Orbital M25 motorway, Junction 10.
The word " rave " somehow caught on to describe these semi-spontaneous weekend parties occurring at various locations outside the M25 Orbital motorway that now attracted up to 25 000.
The next junction links the road to the M25 London Orbital Motorway at Dartford ; the next, ( Bean Interchange ), is for the B255 and A296 for Bluewater, where Watling Street rejoins the A2.
In 1710 part of one of the roads-from Sevenoaks through Tonbridge and Pembury to Tunbridge Wells-was the first in Kent to be turnpiked, and others followed within the century: it became the A21 road in the 1920s ; the road now bypasses the town, and also takes traffic to the M25 London Orbital motorway at Junction 5.
The brothers Phil Hartnoll and Paul Hartnoll, famous as the electronica duo Orbital are from the town and took the name for the band from the nearby orbital motorway, the M25.
It crosses the M25 London Orbital Motorway just north of Godstone and shortly afterwards the old A25.
One of the earliest sections of the M25 motorway runs parallel and to the north of the A25: hence the London Orbital Road was numbered M25.
Construction of the first part of the M25 began in 1972 but before it opened, plans for the London Orbital motorway were modified to combine the southern and western part of Ringway 4 with the northern and eastern part of Ringway 3.
The London Outer Orbital Path — more usually the " London LOOP " — is a signed walk along public footpaths, and through parks, woods and fields around the edge of Outer London, England, described as " the M25 for walkers ".
But the music continued, one of the longest lasting and influential groups grew out of the rave scene, named Orbital after the M25 motorway.
It is situated in fields and woodlands between Esher and Leatherhead on the A244, five minutes by car from both the A3 ( Portsmouth Road ) and the M25 London Orbital motorway.
* M25 London Orbital Motorway-the outermost London ring, completed ( through both building and upgrading ) in 1986
M25 and Motorway
The most recent road bridges are the bypasses at Isis Bridge and Marlow By-pass Bridge and the Motorway bridges, most notably the two on the M25 route Queen Elizabeth II Bridge and M25 Runnymede Bridge.
The River Ingrebourne formed part of the constituency boundary to the west and the M25 Motorway formed much of the boundary to the east.
M25 and railway
Croydon lies on a natural transport corridor between London and England's south coast, to the north of two gaps in the North Downs, one followed by the A23 Brighton Road through Purley and Merstham and the main railway line and the other by the A22 from Purley to the M25 Godstone interchange.
The centre has a direct link to Chafford Hundred railway station and is connected to the M25 motorway which is London's outermost ring road, as well as to the A13 road which connects central and east London to Basildon and Southend-on-Sea.
Part of the trackbed of the railway is now covered by the line of the M25 which runs to the north of the town.
It passes through Little Missenden, Old Amersham, Chalfont St Giles and Chalfont St Peter, and under the Chiltern railway line and the M25 on its way down the valley.
Crews hill is a railway station in Enfield in the postcode EN2 ; it is on an access road just off Cattlegate Road and is very close to the M25.
Kings Langley railway station is just under the M25 motorway at Junction 20.
It is by Junction 11 of the M25 motorway, is served by Addlestone railway station on the Chertsey Branch Line and has a direct bus service to Heathrow Airport ( bus 51 ).
It is situated on Love Lane about 3 quarters of a mile from Junction 20 on the M25 and about half a mile from Kings Langley railway station.
M25 and line
At Leatherhead the route of the line and site of the proposed junction were later used for the M25 motorway.
M25 and between
The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport.
From December 2008 the upgraded section of the M1 between the M25 and Luton will have the facility for variable speed limits.
The stretch between Junctions 7 and 8 opened in 1975, and that between Junctions 4 and 7 ( constructed to the south of the future M25 interchange by W & C French Engineering, and to the north of the future M25 interchange by Dowsett Engineering Construction Ltd of Harrogate, Yorkshire ) in 1977.
Leatherhead is situated between London's two major airports, 30 – 40 minutes ' drive from each, via the M25 motorway.
The Esher bypass, between Hook and the M25, is three lanes with a good hard shoulder, and thus almost motorway standard ; from the M25 to Guildford also has three lanes.
The beginning of the solar year was marked by the rising of the M25 Constellation in the horizon, which occurs between June 5 and June 11 in this part of the world.
A section of Ringway 3 ( part of the proposed M16 motorway linking to the A2, which later formed part of the M25 motorway opened between 1974 and 1977.
The scale of the four-tier junction between the M23 and the M25, one of only three stack interchanges in the UK, is indicative of the importance attached to the M23 at that time.
The motorway was constructed between 1972 and 1975, at the same time as the southern section of the M25 from Godstone to Reigate ( M25 junctions 6 to 8 ).
The 84 km section of the A12 through Essex has sections of dual two lanes and dual three lanes with eight changes in width between the M25 to Ipswich.
In 2002 an offpeak journey between Margate and Southampton via the M25 was 2 hours 30 minutes, and via the coastal route using the A259, A27 and M27 was 3 hours 50 minutes.
The section of the M25 between the Hunton Bridge Interchange, Watford ( J19 ) and Maple Cross, Rickmansworth ( J17 ) originally opened as the A405 ahead of the completion of the M25.
The Roads for Prosperity white paper published in 1989 detailed a major expansion of the road building program and included plans for the M12 motorway between Chelmsford and the M25 as well as many other road schemes.
In December 2008, widening of the M1 between the M25 and Luton was completed, with non-motorway collector distributor lanes linking the M10 ( at Junction 7 of the M1 ) with the next junction ( no. 8 ) for Hemel Hempstead.
It provides a short link between the M25 / A21 at Sevenoaks and the M20 near Wrotham.
The next M25 junction, number 6, is west at Godstone, thus traffic joining the M26 at Junction 2a cannot leave the motorway for – the longest distance between motorway exits in Britain.
0.720 seconds.