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{{short description|Major road in England}}
{{other uses|A13 roads}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}
{{infobox road
|country=ENG
|type=A
|route=13
|map=[[File:A13 road map.png|200px]]|map_custom=yes
|length_mi=41.7
|length_ref = <ref name="Length"/>
|direction_a=West
|direction_b=East
|terminus_a= {{Jct|country=GBR|A|11}} in [[Whitechapel]], [[London]]
|destinations= [[London Docklands|Docklands]], [[Barking, London|Barking]], [[Dartford Crossing]], [[Tilbury]], [[Basildon]], [[Southend-on-Sea|Southend]]
|terminus_b=Ness Road / Campfield Road in [[Shoeburyness]]
|history=Route pre-dates inception of 1922 Roads list; first all-new bypass section opened 1924; last all-new section opened 1999; latest grade-separation completed 2013
|junction={{Jct|country=GBR|A|12|A|102}} in [[Poplar, London]]<br>
{{Jct|country=GBR|A|406|A|1020}} near [[Barking, London|Barking]]<br>
{{Jct|country=GBR|M|25|A|282}} near [[Aveley]]<br>
{{Jct|country=GBR|A|1089}} near [[Grays, Essex|Grays]]<br>
{{Jct|country=GBR|A|130}} near [[South Benfleet]]<br>
{{Jct|country=GBR|A|127}} in [[Southend-on-Sea]]
}}
The '''A13''' is a major [[road]] in [[England]] linking [[Central London]] with east London and south [[Essex]]. Its route is similar to that of the [[London, Tilbury and Southend line]] via Rainham, Grays, Tilbury, Stanford-Le-Hope & Pitsea, and runs the entire length of the northern [[Thames Gateway]] area, terminating on the Thames Estuary at [[Shoeburyness]]. It is a [[trunk road]] between London and the [[Tilbury]] junction, a [[primary route]] between there and Sadlers Hall Farm near [[South Benfleet]], and a non-primary route between there and Shoeburyness.

==Route==
===London===
[[File:A13 Limehouse stn.JPG|thumb|left|Commercial Road looking west near Limehouse railway station]]
The A13 used to start at [[Aldgate Pump]]; but now begins at the junction with the A11 at what used to be the [[Aldgate]] one way system in east [[London]] and heads eastwards through the boroughs of [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets|Tower Hamlets]], [[London Borough of Newham|Newham]], [[London Borough of Barking and Dagenham|Barking & Dagenham]] and [[London Borough of Havering|Havering]] before reaching the [[Greater London]] boundary.

====Commercial Road and East India Dock Road====
At the central London end, [[Commercial Road]] and [[East India Dock Road]] form one of two main arteries through the historic [[East End]] (the other being the [[A11 road (Great Britain)|A11]] ''Whitechapel Road''). The A13 route is a relatively recent addition to London's radial network, having been built at the beginning of the 19th century to connect the City with the (then) newly expanding [[Port of London]]. ''Commercial Road'' dates from 1802,<ref>http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46475 British History Online - "Pennyfields", Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs (1994), pp. 111-113. Date accessed: 14 November 2007</ref> while ''East India Dock Road''  was set out from 1806 to 1812.<ref>http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46478 British History Online - "East India Dock Road: Introduction", Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs (1994), pp. 120-126. Date accessed: 14 November 2007</ref> The first iron bridge across the [[River Lea]] was built in 1810.<ref>{{citation |title=The Iron Bridge Over The River Lea, 1810 (p. 126)|work=Survey of London vol=43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs (1994)|pages=XI-XX|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46674|access-date=14 February 2011}}</ref> Today the route is still largely single carriageway, though notable is the junction with the [[A12 road (Great Britain)|A12]] and [[A102 road (Great Britain)|A102]] at the northern portal of the [[Blackwall Tunnel]]. This section of A13 is used by the important London Bus routes [[London Buses route 15|15]] (as far as Blackwall) and [[List of bus routes in London|115]].

====East Ham & Barking By-pass (Newham Way and Alfreds Way)====
[[File:A13 Beckton.JPG|thumb|left|Newham Way looking west between A406 and A117 junctions (the latter just ahead)]]
However, just east of Blackwall, at the crossing of the [[River Lea]], there is a [[List of road-related terminology#T|TOTSO]] (turn-off to stay on) with the [[A1261 road (Great Britain)|A1261]] East India Dock Link Tunnel, and the road changes character dramatically, becoming a dual three-lane [[Limited-access road|expressway]]. This grade-separated route continues all the way to the Greater London Boundary. Notable junctions include [[Canning Town]], and the [[A406]] junction near [[Beckton]], as well as the single carriageway Lodge Avenue flyover near Barking, where the old A13 route (''Ripple Road'') merges with the new. Grade-separated in 2002–2004, the dual carriageway section through Newham is ''Newham Way'', while through Barking it is ''Alfreds Way'', both comprising the ''East Ham & Barking Bypass'', and originally dualled by the 1960s.<ref>http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42748 British History Online - "West Ham: Introduction", A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp. 43-50. Date accessed: 16 November 2007.</ref> This section is structurally sound and built to high standards, but was subject to a 40&nbsp;mph (64&nbsp;km/h) speed limit. Prior to grade-separation, the speed limit was 50&nbsp;mph (80&nbsp;km/h).<ref>http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7223&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 This thread on the SABRE forums includes a letter from TfL setting out their reasons for reducing the limit from 50 to {{convert|40|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}. Letter dated 5 January 2006.</ref> Works involved inserting new underpasses at Prince Regent and Movers Lane, a new flyover at [[Beckton Alps]], and expanding Canning Town flyover from two lanes either way to three. Also inserted was the free-flow link to the A1261 tunnel. London Bus route [[List of bus routes in London|173]] is the only route to use the A13 here, between Beckton Alps and ''Ripple Road''. However, the speed limit was increased back to 50&nbsp;mph in 2011.

====Ripple Road and the Thames Gateway====
East of the Lodge Avenue junction near [[Barking, London|Barking]], the route then takes over the much older ''Ripple Road'', with its last at-grade junction at ''Renwick Road'', while the all-new grade-separated section east of the Goresbrook Interchange at Dagenham is termed the ''Thames Gateway'', completed in 1999. This is notable for the award-winning viaduct<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.benaimgroup.com/awards.html |title=Benaim - About us - Awards |access-date=2008-02-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211232918/http://www.benaimgroup.com/awards.html |archive-date=11 February 2008 |df=dmy }} Benaim Group webpage listing [[Concrete Society]] awards for 2000</ref> over [[Ford Motor Company|Fords]] works, opening in late 1999,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |title=Barking & Dagenham Local History &#124; Where History is in the Past |access-date=2007-11-02 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115231450/http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |archive-date=15 November 2007 |df=dmy }} Barking and Dagenham Local History website: Barking & Dagenham Post, 22 December 1999</ref> and the causeway over [[Rainham, London|Rainham]] and [[Wennington, London|Wennington]] Marshes, the latter structure causing some delay to the project due to necessary studies on its environmental impact,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-01-27/Debate-6.html |title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 27 Jan 1995 |access-date=2007-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716220732/http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-01-27/Debate-6.html |archive-date=16 July 2011 |df=dmy }} Parliamentary debate on the A13 on 27 January 1995, first part</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-01-27/Debate-7.html |title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 27 Jan 1995 |access-date=2007-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716220751/http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-01-27/Debate-7.html |archive-date=16 July 2011 |df=dmy }} Parliamentary debate on the A13 on 27 January 1995, second part</ref> although this section opened first, in mid-1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |title=Barking & Dagenham Local History &#124; Where History is in the Past |access-date=2007-11-02 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115231450/http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |archive-date=15 November 2007 |df=dmy }} Barking and Dagenham Local History website: Barking & Dagenham Post, 2 July 1997,</ref> The contract also included the Wennington to [[M25 motorway]] section (see below). It has National Speed Limit from just east of Goresbrook Interchange. London Bus routes 173 and [[List of bus routes in London|287]] are the only routes to use the A13 here, between ''Ripple Road'' and Goresbrook.

There are some public artworks along this section. Between 1997 and 2004 Barking and Dagenham Council commissioned the ''A13 Artscape'' project including lighting at the Charlton Crescent subway and cone sculptures at the Goresbrook Interchange.<ref>Public Art  Online https://publicartonline.org.uk/resources/reports/repregeneration/a13artscape.php.html</ref> Also in 2005, Havering Council commissioned the ''Litmus Towers'' sculptures on the A13 junctions near Rainham which display local environmental data using large LED arrays.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.socalondon.com/litmus-towers/ |title=Litmus Towers — Studio of Cinematic Architecture |access-date=9 October 2018 |archive-date=9 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009172255/http://www.socalondon.com/litmus-towers/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Essex===
 [[File:Sadlers farm roundabout.jpg|thumb|left|[[Sadlers Farm]] Roundabout]]

====Wennington to Sadlers Hall Farm====

The ''Thames Gateway'' section of the A13 leaves [[London]] at [[Wennington, London|Wennington]] on the border with [[Thurrock]], still dual three lanes, intersecting with the [[M25 motorway]] at Junction 30, close to the [[Dartford Crossing]] and [[Lakeside Shopping Centre]]. The A13 here is a much older dual carriageway, dating mostly to the 1980s, including the four-lane flyover above the M25, left incomplete for over 15 years. The Wennington to M25 section opened in late 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |title=Barking & Dagenham Local History &#124; Where History is in the Past |access-date=2007-11-02 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115231450/http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |archive-date=15 November 2007 |df=dmy }} Barking and Dagenham Local History website: Barking & Dagenham Post, 16 December 1998.</ref> The next junction, the turn-off for Lakeside ([[A126 road (Great Britain)|A126]]), has only west-facing slips, so there is no exit eastbound. It is then dual three lanes past the junction with the [[A1089 road|A1089]], the road into [[Tilbury]], and loses its [[Trunk Road]] status to the latter. The A13 finally drops down to two lanes each way at the nearby [[A128 road (Great Britain)|A128]] junction. It is dual for another {{convert|9|mi}}, bypassing [[Stanford-le-Hope]] and [[Basildon]] before it reaches the Sadlers Hall Farm (or Sadlers Farm) [[roundabout]]. Here the road meets the [[A130 road|A130]] and loses its dual and Primary Route status. The main route into Southend is now the [[A127 road (Great Britain)|A127]] ''Southend Arterial Road'', accessible via the A130.

====A13/A130 Sadlers Farm Junction====

Improvements to the A13/[[A130 road|A130]] Sadlers Farm Junction were first given government approval in July 2006 following a 2005 public consultation.<ref name="DfT1">{{cite web
 |url          = http://www.gov-news.org/gov/uk/news/ten_year_transport_programme_for_eastern/65789.html
 |title        = Ten-year transport programme for Eastern region
 |publisher    = [[Department for Transport]] (East)
 |access-date   = 2008-11-19
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 |archive-date = 18 May 2015
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}}</ref> The project involved by-passing the roundabout by creating a new full-depth cutting link road between the A13 and A130, building slip roads connecting traffic to the Sadlers Farm roundabout and widening the A13 to dual four lane carriageway to Pitsea and the A130 to dual three lane carriageway to the Rayleigh Spur roundabout.<ref name="ECC1">{{cite web
|url=http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/vip8/ecc/ECCWebsite/content/binaries/documents/Planning396/planning_summary_ccbas10507%26cccpt10607.pdf?channelOid=null
|title=Sadlers Farm Junction - CC/BAS/105/07
|publisher=[[Essex County Council]]
|access-date=2008-11-19
}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The scheme is part of the [[Thames Gateway]] transport infrastructure plans which gave it an estimated cost of £63 million in 2007 and timelines it for 2012.<ref name="KF1">	
 {{cite web
 |url=http://www.knightfrank.com/ResearchReportDirPhase2/11201.pdf 
 |title=Thames Gateway Commercial Market Report - Winter 2007 
 |publisher=[[Knight Frank LLP]] 
 |access-date=2008-11-19 
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}}</ref> The scheme was opened in 2012.

====Benfleet to Shoeburyness====

The A13 continues east of Sadlers Farm as mostly single-carriageway through [[Thundersley]], [[Hadleigh, Essex|Hadleigh]], [[Leigh-on-Sea]] and [[Westcliff]], before reaching the seaside resort of [[Southend-on-Sea]]. This is the last major town on the route, but it continues eastwards, including brief dual sections (''London Road'', Hadleigh, ''Queensway'' round the town centre, with its roundabouts with the [[A127 road (Great Britain)|A127]] and A1160 (another ''TOTSO''), and ''Southchurch Boulevard'' in [[Southchurch]]), and on to [[Shoeburyness]], on the estuary {{convert|3|mi}} east of Southend proper. It turns to the south at Parsons Corner, and then as ''Ness Road'', it terminates at an end-on junction with the B1016, also forming part of ''Ness Road''.
{| class="wikitable"
|- align="center" bgcolor="green" style="color: yellow;"
| colspan="3" | '''A13 Road'''
|- align="center" bgcolor="000000" style="color: white"
| Eastbound exits
| Junction
| Westbound exits
|- align 'center'
|- align="center" bgcolor="skyblue" style="color: black;"
| colspan="3" | '''Tower Hamlets'''
|- align='center'
| ''Start of grade-separated section, merge with '''[[A1261 road (Great Britain)|A1261]]''' East India Dock Link, signed [[Barking, London|Barking]], [[Tilbury]] '''A13'''''
''(see Note just below)''
| Junction 7: Leamouth Junction 
| ''Turn-off to stay on for Central [[London]], [[Blackwall Tunnel]] '''A13''', [[Leamouth]] '''([[A1020 road|A1020]])''', mainline signed [[Canary Wharf]], [[Isle of Dogs]] '''[[A1261 road (Great Britain)|A1261]]''', becomes East India Dock Link''
|- align="center" bgcolor="skyblue" style="color: black;"
| colspan="3" | '''Newham'''
|- align='center'
| [[Plaistow, Newham|Plaistow]] '''[[A124 road (Great Britain)|A124]]''', [[Stratford, London|Stratford]], [[Canning Town]], [[West Ham]], Royal Docks, [[London City Airport]], [[ExCeL]] '''[[A1011 road|A1011]]''', '''[[List of B roads in Great Britain|B164]]'''
''Note: sliproad starts on Tower Hamlets side of the [[River Lea]]!''
| Junction 8: Canning Town
| [[Plaistow, Newham|Plaistow]] '''[[A124 road (Great Britain)|A124]]''', [[Stratford, London|Stratford]], [[Canning Town]], [[West Ham]], Royal Docks, [[London City Airport]], [[ExCeL]] '''[[A1011 road|A1011]]''' (Entrance via Junction 7) 
|- align='center'
| ''New Barn Street, no access to A13''
| (New Barn Street exit)
| ''No exit - Use Junction 9.''
|- align='center'
| [[Custom House, Newham|Custom House]], [[London City Airport]], [[ExCeL]], [[Stratford, London|Stratford]], [[Plaistow, Newham|Plaistow]] '''[[A112 road (Great Britain)|A112]]''', ''Tollgate Road'' 
| Junction 9: Prince Regent
| [[Custom House, Newham|Custom House]], [[London City Airport]], [[ExCeL]], [[Stratford, London|Stratford]], [[Plaistow, Newham|Plaistow]] '''[[A112 road (Great Britain)|A112]]''', ''Tollgate Road'', ''Freemasons Road''
|- align='center'
| ''Noel Road (no access to A13)''
| (signed side streets)
| East Ham Industrial Estate
|- align='center'
| [[Beckton]], [[Manor Park, London|Manor Park]], [[East Ham]], London Industrial Park '''[[A117 road (Great Britain)|A117]]'''
| Junction 10: Beckton Alps
| [[Beckton]], [[Manor Park, London|Manor Park]], [[East Ham]], London Industrial Park '''[[A117 road (Great Britain)|A117]]'''
|- align='center'
| [[A406 road|North Circular Road]], [[Ilford]], [[Barking, London|Barking]], ([[M11 motorway|M11]]) '''[[A406 road|A406]]''', [[London City Airport]], Royal Docks, [[ExCeL]] '''[[A1020 road|A1020]]''', [[Woolwich Ferry]] '''([[A117 road (Great Britain)|A117]])''', ''Jenkins lane''
| Junction 11: (A406 terminus)
| [[A406 road|North Circular Road]], [[Ilford]], [[Barking, London|Barking]], ([[M11 motorway|M11]]) '''[[A406 road|A406]]''', [[London City Airport]], Royal Docks, [[ExCeL]] '''[[A1020 road|A1020]]''', [[Woolwich Ferry]] '''([[A117 road (Great Britain)|A117]])'''
|- align="center" bgcolor="skyblue" style="color: black;"
| colspan="3" | '''Barking & Dagenham'''
|- align='center'
|- align='center'
| [[Barking, London|Barking]], [[Creekmouth]], River Road Industrial Estate, Thames View Estate 
| Junction 12: Movers Lane
| [[Barking, London|Barking]], [[Creekmouth]], River Road Industrial Estate, Thames View Estate
|- align='center'
| [[Barking, London|Barking]] '''[[A123 road (Great Britain)|A123]]''', [[Becontree]], [[Romford]] '''[[A1153 road (Great Britain)|A1153]]'''
| Junction 13: Lodge Avenue Junction (Ripple Road Junction) ''(NB: flyover here is single carriageway)''
| [[Barking, London|Barking]] '''[[A123 road (Great Britain)|A123]]''', [[Becontree]], [[Romford]] '''[[A1153 road (Great Britain)|A1153]]'''
|- align='center'
| Rippleside, Commercial Estate, Container Base, Freight Centre
''through traffic is free-flow''
| (Renwick Road westbound traffic lights)
| Rippleside, Commercial Estate, Container Base, Freight Centre
''through traffic liable to stop at lights''
|- align='center'
| [[Dagenham]], [[Hornchurch]] '''[[A1306 road|A1306]]''', Dagenham Dock, Scrattons Farm Estate
| Junction 14: Goresbrook Interchange
| [[Dagenham]], [[Hornchurch]] '''[[A1306 road|A1306]]''', Dagenham Dock, Scrattons Farm Estate
|- align='center'
|- align="center" bgcolor="skyblue" style="color: black;"
| colspan="3" | '''Havering'''
|- align='center'
|- align='center'
| [[Dagenham]], [[Rainham, London|Rainham]] '''[[A1306 road|A1306]]''', [[Hornchurch]], [[Elm Park]] '''([[A125 road (Great Britain)|A125]])''', ''CEME, [[Ford Motor Company|Fords]]''
| Junction 15: (Marsh Way ?)
| [[Dagenham]], [[Rainham, London|Rainham]] '''[[A1306 road|A1306]]''', [[Hornchurch]], [[Elm Park]] '''([[A125 road (Great Britain)|A125]])''', ''CEME, [[Ford Motor Company|Fords]]''
|- align='center'
| Ferry Lane Industrial Areas
| Junction 16: (Ferry Lane ?)
| Ferry Lane Industrial Areas
|- align='center'
| [[Wennington, London|Wennington]], [[West Thurrock]] '''[[A1306 road|A1306]]''', [[Purfleet]] '''([[A1090 road|A1090]])''', [[Aveley]] '''([[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1335]])'''
| Junction 17: Wennington
| [[Wennington, London|Wennington]], [[West Thurrock]] '''[[A1306 road|A1306]]''', [[Purfleet]] '''([[A1090 road|A1090]])''', [[Aveley]] '''([[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1335]])'''
|- align="center" bgcolor="skyblue" style="color: black;"
| colspan="3" | '''Thurrock'''
|- align='center'
|- align='center'
| [[Stansted Airport]], ([[M11 motorway|M11]]) '''[[M25 motorway|M25]]''', [[Dartford Crossing]], [[Gatwick Airport]] '''([[A282 road|A282]])''', [[South Ockendon]] '''([[A1306 road|A1306]])''', [[Purfleet]] '''([[A1090 road|A1090]])''', ''[[Thurrock services]]''
| Junction 18/Junction J30 (M25) Mar Dyke Interchange ''link to J31 (A282)''
| [[Stansted Airport]], ([[M11 motorway|M11]]) '''[[M25 motorway|M25]]''', [[Dartford Crossing]], [[Gatwick Airport]] '''([[A282 road|A282]])''', [[South Ockendon]] '''([[A1306 road|A1306]])''', [[Purfleet]] '''([[A1090 road|A1090]])''', ''[[Thurrock services]]''
|- align='center'
| [[Lakeside Shopping Centre]], [[West Thurrock]] '''[[A126 road (Great Britain)|A126]]''' ''(no access to A13)''
| Junction 19: (Lakeside ?)
| ''No Exit''
|- align='center'
| Grays '''[[A1012 road|A1012]]''', North Stifford, [[Orsett]]
| Junction 20: Stifford Interchange
| Grays '''[[A1012 road|A1012]]''', North Stifford, [[Orsett]]
|- align='center'
| [[Tilbury]] '''[[A1089 road|A1089]]'''
| Junction 21: Baker Street Interchange
| [[Tilbury]] '''[[A1089 road|A1089]]'''
|- align='center'
| [[Brentwood, Essex|Brentwood]] '''[[A128 road (Great Britain)|A128]]''', [[Grays, Essex|Grays]], Linfield, East Tilbury '''[[A1013 road|A1013]]''', [[Chadwell St Mary]]
| Junction 22: Orsett Cock
| [[Brentwood, Essex|Brentwood]] '''[[A128 road (Great Britain)|A128]]''', [[Grays, Essex|Grays]], Linfield, East Tilbury '''[[A1013 road|A1013]]''', [[Chadwell St Mary]]
|- align='center'
| ''Services''
| 
| ''Services''
|- align='center'
| [[Stanford-le-Hope]], [[Coryton, Essex|Coryton]] '''[[A1014 road|A1014]]''', Linford, East Tilbury '''[[A1013 road|A1013]]''', [[Horndon-on-the-Hill]], Laindon '''[[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1007]]'''
| Junction 23: Manorway Junction (Stanford Interchange)
| [[Stanford-le-Hope]], [[Coryton, Essex|Coryton]] '''[[A1014 road|A1014]]''', Linford, East Tilbury '''[[A1013 road|A1013]]''', [[Horndon-on-the-Hill]], Laindon '''[[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1007]]'''
|- align='center'
| ''Greenacres Farm''
| (Private junction - farm access only)
| ''Greenacres Farm''
|- align="center" bgcolor="skyblue" style="color: black;"
| colspan="3" | '''Basildon'''
|- align='center'
|- align='center'
| [[Basildon]] '''[[A176 road|A176]]''', Vange '''[[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1464]]''', Corringham '''[[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1420]]''', Fobbing
| Junction 24: Five Bells (Vange)
| [[Basildon]] '''[[A176 road|A176]]''', Vange '''[[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1464]]''', Corringham '''[[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1420]]''', Fobbing
|- align='center'
| [[Basildon]] '''[[A132 road (England)|A132]]''', Pitsea '''([[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1464]])''', ''Pitsea Hall Lane''
| Junction 25: Pitsea
| [[Basildon]] '''[[A132 road (England)|A132]]''', Pitsea '''([[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1464]])''', ''Pitsea Hall Lane''
|- align='center'
| ''end of grade-separated dual carriageway''
[[Chelmsford]], [[Southend]] '''[[A130 road|A130]] ([[A127 road (Great Britain)|A127]])''', 
Canvey Island '''[[A130 road|A130]]''', 
Bowers Gifford '''[[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1464]]''',
[[South Benfleet]] '''A13''' 
| Junction 26: Sadlers Farm
| [[Chelmsford]], [[Southend]] '''[[A130 road|A130]] ([[A127 road (Great Britain)|A127]])''', 
[[Canvey Island]] '''[[A130 road (Great Britain)|A130]]''', 
Bowers Gifford '''[[List of B roads in Great Britain|B1464]]''', 
[[London]], [[Basildon]] '''A13''' 
''start of grade-separated dual carriageway''
|- align="center" bgcolor="skyblue" style="color: black;"
| colspan="3" | A13 enters/leaves '''Castle Point''' to Junction 27 (Tarpots)
|- align='center' 
|}

==History==

=== Original route through Newham and Barking ===

East of the River Lea, through Newham and Barking, the original route followed the [[A124 road (Great Britain)|A124]]  ''Barking Road'' and then the [[A123 road (Great Britain)|A123]] ''Ripple Road''.<ref name="1923 MOT Two Inch Map extract">{{cite web|url=http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=51.54247,0.02968&map=LonMap&zoom=7&layer=0|title=1923 MOT Two Inch Map (extract)|publisher=[[Ordnance Survey]]|access-date=2 August 2012}}</ref> The present A13 still uses much of the eastern end of ''Ripple Road''. The route was replaced by the ''East Ham & Barking Bypass'' first opened in 1928,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |title=Barking & Dagenham Local History &#124; Where History is in the Past |access-date=2007-11-02 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115231450/http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |archive-date=15 November 2007 |df=dmy }} Barking and Dagenham Local History website: Dagenham Post & Barking Rainham Guardian, 1 June 1928</ref> which was given the number A118 before being redesignated.<ref name="1923 MOT Two Inch Map extract"/> As with the route west of the [[River Lea]], ''Barking Road'' is a relatively new route, being built {{Circa|1812}}.<ref>http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42722 British History Online - "The ancient parish of Barking: introduction", A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5 (1966), pp. 184-190. Date accessed: 14 November 2007.</ref>

=== Original route through Dagenham and Havering ===

''Ripple Road'' leads to [[Dagenham]]. The eastern end of this as well as ''New Road'' heading towards [[Rainham, London|Rainham]], in Havering, and the Greater London border, were bypassed by the new-build ''Thames Gateway'' in 1999. The former route was redesignated A1306. The western end between Dagenham and Rainham is still dual, but a short section near Rainham was singled in recent years. Like ''Barking Road'' further west, the original section of ''New Road'' between Dagenham and Rainham dates from {{Circa|1810}},<ref>http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42731 British History Online - "Dagenham: Introduction and manors", A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5 (1966), pp. 267-281. Date accessed: 14 November 2007.</ref> and was dualled at roughly the same time as the ''East & Ham and Barking Bypass''. ''New Road'' east of Rainham is much newer, and dates from the 1920s. It is and was single all the way towards the border at [[Wennington, London|Wennington]], consequently suffering congestion, especially after [[Lakeside Shopping Centre]] opened in 1990.

=== Original route in Thurrock and Basildon ===

The eastern half of ''New Road'' originates from 1924,<ref>http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42835 British History Online - "Wennington", A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7 (1978), pp. 180-190. Date accessed: 16 November 2007.</ref> and continues past Wennington as the A1306 ''Arterial Road'', completed in 1925,<ref>http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63837 British History Online - "Parishes: Aveley", A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8 (1983), pp. 1-16. Date accessed: 16 November 2007</ref> bypassing Purfleet (the project including that town's now unclassified "bypass"). It subsequently intersects with the M25 and [[A282 road|A282]] at Junction 31, heads past Lakeside and then ends at the A1012 near [[Grays, Essex|Grays]]. The route continues as the unclassified Lodge Lane before the latter becomes part of the A1013. The A1013 continues as far as Stanford-le-Hope, where the old A13 route merges with new at the A1014 junction. The eastern end of the erstwhile single-carriageway bypass is now a farm access, but can be shadowed on foot, meeting the B1420 at a roundabout just south of the modern A13 (the actual original A13 (pre-1930s) followed ''London Road'' and ''Southend Road'' through Stanford and [[Corringham, Essex|Corringham]]<ref>http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#569,183,1 Both original route (yellow) and old by-pass (red) can be seen in this New Popular Edition Map dated 1946</ref>). East of there, the B1420 meets the A13 at the [[A176 road|A176]] junction at [[Thurrock]]/[[Essex]] border and then the B1464 ''London Road'' continues the route south of Basildon, before meeting the newer road and the A130 at Sadlers Farm. The section of the route between the M25 and Sadlers Farm was by-passed or dualled in several stages between the mid-1970s and early 1990s,<ref>http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16466 This thread on the SABRE website forums discusses opening dates for roads built in the 1970s, based on contemporary maps (The Atlas Dating Project). The A13 between the A176 and A130 was deemed to have been built some time between 1975 and 1978; no firm date, however, was arrived at.</ref><ref>http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16467 This thread on the SABRE website forums discusses opening dates for roads built in the 1980s, based on contemporary maps (The Atlas Dating Project). The A13 between the M25 and A128 was deemed to have opened in 1982, and the section between A128 and A1014 in 1985.</ref><ref>http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16468 This thread on the SABRE website forums discusses opening dates for roads built in the 1990s, based on contemporary maps (The Atlas Dating Project). The A13 between the A1014 and A176 was deemed to have been complete in 1993, largely taking over the old Stanford-le-Hope Bypass.</ref> with Wennington to M25 opening in 1998 (see above).

=== Original route in Southend ===

In Southend, the short dual carriageway ''Queensway'' bypasses the original route through the town centre, and while much of this is pedestrianised, it can be followed on foot. East of the town centre, ''Shoebury Road'' was bypassed by the single-carriageway ''Bournes Green Chase'', just a few yards to the north, linking Southchurch with [[Shoeburyness]]. Finally, the terminus of the A13 has been truncated, the road formerly ending on Shoeburyness ''High Street'' at the [[Shoeburyness railway station|railway station]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=51.55165,0.76782&map=NPEMap&zoom=7&layer=4|title=1923 MOT Half Inch Map Sheet 30 (Colchester)|publisher=[[Ordnance Survey]]|access-date=2 August 2012}}</ref>

=== Proposed route near Southend ===

In the 1960s, a route along the lines of the A13 was planned to take traffic to a new airport located at [[Maplin Sands]] near Southend. Only preliminary planning was carried out for the road (which may have been designated a [[motorway]]) before the proposals for the airport were dropped in favour of expanding [[Stansted Airport]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8330988&SearchInit=4&SearchType=6&CATREF=AT+56%2F98|title=Third London Airport: Maplin Project; final and draft report; motorway/highspeed rail access ringway 3 to Maplin - corridor study. With plans|publisher=The National Archives|access-date=2 August 2012}}</ref>
The route would have followed a similar route to the current A13 through Barking and Dagenham to Rainham before heading north-east towards South Ockendon then east towards Basildon. It would have continued eastwards between Basildon and Stanford-le-Hope before passing north of Canvey Island and south of Hadleigh, Leigh-on-Sea. The last section of road would have been constructed in the [[Thames Estuary]] passing south of Southend-on-Sea and Shoeburyness to reach the proposed site of the airport.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

==Management==

The section between [[Limehouse]] and [[Wennington, London|Wennington]] is maintained by RMS (A13) Plc as part of a 30-year [[DBFO]] deal reached with the [[Highways Agency]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amec.com/news/mediareleasedetails.asp?Pageid%3D876%26MediaID%3D135%26mryear%3D2000 |title=AMEC - Press releases |access-date=2007-11-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016163047/http://www.amec.com/news/mediareleasedetails.asp?Pageid=876&MediaID=135&mryear=2000 |archive-date=16 October 2006 |df=dmy }} AMEC (parent co. of RMS) press release, 11 April 2000.</ref><ref>http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20081107152248/http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/2745.aspx Highways Agency DBFO Project List</ref> It was RMS who undertook grade-separation of the ''East Ham & Barking Bypass'' section in 2002–2004. RMS also maintain the A1203 [[Limehouse Link tunnel]] as well as the ''Aspen Way'' and East India Dock Link tunnel sections of the A1261 through [[London Docklands|Docklands]]. This latter route runs just south of the A13, is dual carriageway and nearly all grade-separated and acts as an alternative to ''East India Dock Road'' and much of ''Commercial Road''.

Despite the DBFO, [[Transport for London]] (who took over responsibility for all trunk non-motorway routes in London from the Highways Agency in 2000<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2000/london_mayor/534814.stm bbc.co.uk] BBC News Online article: "In Depth - London Mayor - What does the Mayor get to do?", 16 May 2000.</ref>) still have overall responsibility for the entire A13 section inside Greater London, while the [[Highways Agency]] have responsibility for the remaining [[Trunk Road]] section between Wennington and the A1089 junction near Tilbury.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://assets.highways.gov.uk/our-road-network/our-network/s120427_NetworkManagement_DEC.pdf |title=Network Management |access-date=22 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717173018/http://assets.highways.gov.uk/our-road-network/our-network/s120427_NetworkManagement_DEC.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> From there until Sadlers Hall Farm, the A13 is a [[primary route]] and is maintained by [[Essex County Council]], as is the non-primary section through [[Castle Point]], although the sections through [[Southend-on-Sea]] and [[Thurrock]] are managed by their respective [[Unitary authorities of England|unitary authorities]].

==Cycleway 3==
{{Cycleway 3}}
[[Cycleway 3]] (C3) runs along the A13 between [[Poplar, London|Poplar]] and [[Barking, London|Barking]].

To the east C3 joins the A13 at the junction with the [[A1020 road|A1020]]/Leamouth Road. C3 runs eastbound, crossing the [[Bow Creek (London)|Bow Creek]] and [[Barking Creek]] and passing through [[Canning Town]] and [[Beckton]] ''en route''. To the west, C3 ends at [[Greatfields Park]], Barking, at the junction with Movers Lane/River Road.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Cycle|url=https://tfl.gov.uk/maps/cycle|website=[[Transport for London]] (TfL)|access-date=May 9, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Relation: Cycle Superhighway 3|url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1159230|website=[[OpenStreetMap]]|access-date=May 9, 2020}}</ref>

West from Canning Town, C3 crosses over the A1020/Leamouth Road, heading southbound along the pavement until a junction with Sorrel Lane, where it turns right. It is signposted from Sorrel Lane and runs unbroken to [[Tower Hill]] in the [[City of London|City]] and [[Lancaster Gate]], [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]].<ref name=":0" />

For the entirety of its route, C3 runs adjacent to the westbound carriageway of the A13 (to the south of the road) as a two-way [[bike freeway]]. The route is segregated from other traffic, except at some junctions. It is signposted and marked by blue paint.

Between Greatfields Park and the Lodge Avenue Junction, the two-way, segregated bikeway continues along the southern edge of the A13. The route is part of [[National Cycle Route 13]] (NCR 13), but not the [[List of cycle routes in London|TfL Cycleways]] network. NCR 13 leaves the A13 to the east of Lodge Avenue Junction, crossing the A13 and joining residential streets as it runs towards [[Rainham, London|Rainham]]. The northern terminus of NCR 13 is in [[Fakenham]], [[Norfolk]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Route 13|url=https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/route-13/|website=[[Sustrans]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509085258/https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/route-13/|archive-date=May 9, 2020|access-date=May 9, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Relation: NCN National Route 13|url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9765641|website=[[OpenStreetMap]]|access-date=May 9, 2020}}</ref>

==Future developments==

=== A13 Passenger Transport Corridor (Southend) ===
The scheme aims to improve public transport along the A13; it includes bus stop improvements, provision of [[Passenger information system|real time information]] and bus prioritisation at signals as well as junction enhancements and road widening. The road widening is planned for a number of points on the Hatley Gardens and Kenneth Road stretch of the A13. Following a public consultation in March 2009, the scheme was approved.<ref name=EERA1>
{{cite web
 |url=http://www.eera.gov.uk/GetAsset.aspx?id=fAA5ADMAMwB8AHwARgBhAGwAcwBlAHwAfAAwAHwA0 
 |title=Regional Funding Allocation - A13 Passenger Transport Corridor 
 |publisher=[[East of England Regional Assembly]] 
 |access-date=2008-12-03 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606050948/http://www.eera.gov.uk/GetAsset.aspx?id=fAA5ADMAMwB8AHwARgBhAGwAcwBlAHwAfAAwAHwA0 
 |archive-date=6 June 2011 
 |df=dmy 
}}</ref>"The people of Thurrock have been calling for this for more than a decade, now at last the money is in sight and we can start to get things moving."<ref name="SBC1"/> The original estimated cost of the scheme was given at £4 million in the 2001–2006 [[Local Transport Plan]] and increased to £4.9 million in the 2006–2011 update.<ref name=EERA1/> "The government is recognising that a further £80 million more is needed to actually build the scheme."<ref name="SBC1">	
{{cite web
|url=http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11566530.A13_widening_works_set_to_move_a_step_closer/
|title= A13 widening works set to move a step closer
|date= 29 October 2014
|access-date=2015-12-01}}</ref>

===London===

Grade-separation of ''Renwick Road'' traffic lights in [[Barking, London|Barking]], the final at-grade junction between Canning Town and Sadlers Hall Farm, was due to be undertaken "in time for the Olympics in 2012".<ref>http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=115409 This thread on the SABRE website forums includes a letter from Barking & Dagenham Council outlining plans for the Renwick Road junction, dated 22 November 2005.</ref> The works may also involve replacement of the nearby Lodge Avenue Flyover (Ripple Road Flyover), but this is subject to available funding and development of [[Barking Riverside]].<ref>https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100107054500/http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/planning_decisions/strategic_dev/2007/20070328/barking_riverside_report.rtf
Transport for London planning decisions: Barking Riverside, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham planning application no. 04/01230/OUT, planning report PDU/0150/02, dated 28 March 2007.</ref>

The junction with the [[A406 road|A406]] North Circular Road was built in 1987<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |title=Barking & Dagenham Local History &#124; Where History is in the Past |access-date=2007-11-02 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115231450/http://www.barkingdagenhamlocalhistory.net/barkingdagenhamnewspaper.htm |archive-date=15 November 2007 |df=dmy }} Barking and Dagenham Local History website: Ilford & Barking Independent, 17 December 1987</ref> and is incomplete. The long-awaited [[Thames Gateway Bridge]] is yet to get the go ahead,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/networkandservices/thamesgateway/2203.aspx |title=Thames Gateway Bridge &#124; Transport for London |access-date=2007-11-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018013318/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/networkandservices/thamesgateway/2203.aspx |archive-date=18 October 2007 |df=dmy }} TfL Thames Gateway Bridge webpage</ref> but if built it will start at a flyover above the A13, thereby linking the A406 with the road network south of the [[River Thames]]. As of 2008, the project in its original form was cancelled by newly elected [[Mayor of London|mayor]] [[Boris Johnson]].<ref>http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/strategyandprojects.php?id=2201 {{dead link|date=September 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Transport Briefing (9 November 2008) - "Mayor culls projects"</ref>

===M25 Junction 30===

Improvements including widening are being made at J30 of the [[M25 motorway]] and at nearby Lakeside turn-off (A126), following a Route Management Strategy undertaken by the [[Highways Agency]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/4156.aspx |title=Highways Agency - A13 (London to Tilbury) |access-date=2007-11-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809105010/http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/4156.aspx |archive-date=9 August 2007 |df=dmy }} Highways Agency A13 Route Management webpage</ref>
The work commenced in late 2014 and was scheduled to be completed in autumn 2016.

==Junction list==
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|mile2=26.5
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|notes=Southern terminus of A176
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|mile2=28.4
|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|132|dir1=north-east|city1=Basildon}}
|notes=South-western terminus of A132
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|lspan=2
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{{GBRint
|mile=29.3
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|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|130|B|1464|A|127|name1=Canvey Way|name2=London Road|city1=Chelmsford|city2=Canvey Island|city3=Bowers Gifford|location4=[[London Southend Airport|Southend Airport]]|extra=airport}}
|notes=
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{{GBRint
|location_special=[[Hadleigh, Essex|Hadleigh]]
|mile=32.5
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|notes=South-eastern terminus of A129
}}
{{GBRint
|location=Southend-on-Sea
|lspan=5
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|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1158|A|127|dir1=north|name1=Southbourne Grove|to2=yes|city1=London|city2=Chelmsford|location3=[[London Southend Airport|Airport]]}}
|notes=Only Airport signed eastbound; southern terminus of A1158
}}
{{GBRint
|mile=37.7
|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|127|A|130|dir1=west|name1=Victoria Avenue|to2=yes|city1=London|city2=Basildon|city3=Chelmsford}}
|notes=Eastern terminus of A127
}}
{{GBRint
|mile=37.9
|road=Queensway ([[A1160 road|A1160]] south) / Sutton Road (B1015) / Southchurch Road
|notes=Northern terminus of A1160
}}
{{GBRint
|mile=39.7
|road={{Jct|country=GBR|A|1159|road|Thorpe Hall Road|A|127|A|130|dir1=north-west|to3=yes|city1=Rochford|city2=London|city3=Chelmsford}}
|notes=Only A1159 and Rochford signed eastbound; south-eastern terminus of A1159
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{{GBRint
|mile=41.7
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==A13 in popular culture==
The A13 has inspired at least two [[Rock music|rock]] songs: [[Billy Bragg]]'s "A13, Trunk Road to the sea", which is a localisation of [[Bobby Troup]]'s [[(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66|song]] about [[U.S. Route 66|Route 66]];<ref>[https://archive.today/20120729170716/http://www.braggtopia.com/songs/A13-words.htm A13 Trunk Road to the Sea]</ref> The music video for the [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]] song "[[Scribble (song)|Scribble]]" also features the A13, with the distinctive fencing on the side of the road clearly visible during the video.{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}} There is also the spoken word track called 'A13' featured on the album ''Without Judgement'' by [[Jah Wobble]]'s Invaders of the Heart, in which Wobble intones his deeper, satirical thoughts concerning the "hopeless highway of Essex" over the musical backing of the band.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}} In 2004, British author [[Iain Sinclair]] published a psychogeographic road novel, titled ''Dining on Stones'', which loosely follows the route of the A13 from East London to the Thames Estuary.<ref>{{cite web|last=McKay|first=Sinclair McKay|title=At the end of the A13 at the end of the A13 at the end of the A13|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3615558/At-the-end-of-the-A13.html|work=The Telegraph|access-date=28 February 2012|date=2004-04-18}}</ref> Mike Newman published an account of attempting to walk the route of the A13 in ''Adverse Camber: An Incomplete walk to the seaside'' in 2018.<ref>{{cite book|last=Newman|first=Mike|title=Adverse Camber: An Incomplete walk to the seaside|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cMVqDwAAQBAJ|access-date=2020-05-08|date=2018-08-18|isbn=9780244102821}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://gidsey.com/2014/08/25/a13-trunk-road-to-the-sea/ A13 road photographs]
*[http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/roadlists/f99/13.shtml Society for All British Road Enthusiasts entry for the A13] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116014036/http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/roadlists/f99/13.shtml |date=16 November 2007 }}
*[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41540029-adverse-camber Adverse Camber: An Incomplete walk to the seaside]

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