Overview
Most of the English section of the A1 is a series of alternating sections of dual carriageway and motorway. From Newcastle upon Tyne to Edinburgh it is a trunk road with alternating sections of dual and single carriageway. The table below summaries the road as motorways and non-motorways sections,
| Road Name | Junctions | Length | Ceremonial Counties/ Lieutenancies |
Primary Destinations | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| miles | km | ||||
| A1 | 16.58 | 26.68 | London Hertfordshire |
London | |
| A1(M) | 1–10 | 24.14 | 38.84 | Hertfordshire | Hertford Stevenage |
| A1 | 26.25 | 42.24 | Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire |
Bedford Cambridge |
|
| A1(M) | 13–17 | 12.84 | 20.66 | Cambridgeshire | Peterborough |
| A1 | 72.99 | 117.44 | Cambridgeshire, Rutland Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire |
Stamford, Grantham Newark on Trent |
|
| A1(M) | 34–38 | 15.13 | 24.34 | South Yorkshire | Doncaster, Rotherham Barnsley |
| A1 | 7.51 | 12.08 | South Yorkshire West Yorkshire |
Pontefract Wakefield |
|
| A1(M) | 40–51 | 51.14 | 82.29 | West Yorkshire North Yorkshire |
Selby. Leeds York,Wetherby |
| A1 | 7.67 | 12.34 | North Yorkshire | Thirsk Scotch Corner |
|
| A1(M) | 56–65 | 34.46 | 55.45 | North Yorkshire, County Durham Northumberland |
Darlington, Bishop Auckland Teesside, Durham Sunderland |
| A1 | 128.29 | 206.42 | Northumberland, Berwickshire East Lothian, Edinburgh |
Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne Morpeth, Alnwick Berwick-upon-Tweed, Haddington Edinburgh |
|
| Total | 397.00 | 638.78 | |||
The motorway sections are discussed below.
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