A10 road
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The A10 (or the Great Cambridge Road) is a major road in England. Starting at London Bridge, it runs northward through the City of London (along the sections known as King William Street, Gracechurch Street, Bishopsgate), then through Shoreditch (where it forms Shoreditch High Street), Stoke Newington (forming Stoke Newington High Street), Tottenham and Enfield. After the road's junction with the M25 motorway at Waltham Cross, the road bypasses Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, Ware and Buntingford.
From Ware, the road used to pass through several Hertfordshire villages such as Wadesmill and Thundridge, but these are now bypassed by a 4-mile extension of the dual carriageway from London which opened in late 2004. The bypass would have opened sooner, but the lime-stabilised subsoil heaved and cracks opened up in the road surface. A substantial portion of the road surface had to be relaid.
From Buntingford, the road runs through Royston and up to the M11 motorway at Cambridge where it turns into the A1309. The A10 reappears to the north of Cambridge at the Milton Interchange of the A14 and heads north, bypassing Ely and Downham Market before reaching the coast at King's Lynn in Norfolk. Its northern section runs up the valley of the River Great Ouse.
Parts of the section from London to Royston follow the route of the Roman Ermine Street.
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