A1139 (Great Britain)

A1139
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Road network
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Eye

The A1139 starts as a single carriageway road at a minor roundabout with the A47 at Eye. After a second small roundabout the road passes through some housing before meeting the A15 on a major roundabout near Paston.

A1139 – Eye
Westbound Exits		Eastbound Exits
Leicester, A47	Start	Wisbech, King's Lynn A47
		Eye, Peterborough Road

Frank Perkins Parkway

The Frank Perkins Parkway heading towards Newark

The Frank Perkins Parkway is named after Frank Perkins, local founder of Perkins Engines and is the main Eastern Bypass for Peterborough. The parkway has access to the Perkins Engines site. The Parkway heads south as a major dual carriageway from a major roundabout with the A15 near Eye and quickly passes its first junction, which is restricted to southbound traffic and the Perkins Factory before reaching to Junction 5 which is a major inlet for city bound traffic. The road then passes over the River Nene and quickly reaches junction 4 where it meets the A605, which runs parallel to junction 3a and the new Stanground bypass out of Peterborough and the old A605, now the B1092. The Frank Perkins Parkway also becomes the Fletton Parkway here.

A1139 – Frank Perkins Parkway
Westbound Exits	Junction	Eastbound Exits
Sleaford, A15	J8	Parnwell, Parnwell Way
Newark, Oxney Road	J7
	J6	Perkins Engines Access
City Centre, Boongate	J5	Newark, Boongate
City Centre, A605	J4	Stanground, A605

Fletton Parkway

Fletton Parkway comprises the entire southern bypass of Peterborough and terminates westbound at the A1. The Fletton Parkway officially starts at junction 4 as a major dual carriageway before which it is named the Frank Perkins Parkway due to them being constructed at different times. The later construction of junction 3A, an access road for the Kingston Park distribution centres large IKEA depot and the new A605 Stanground Bypass, meant a major re-design of junction 4 and a new single carriageway road running parallel with the Fletton Parkway from junctions 3A to 4 providing the only link from junction 4 to the Fletton Parkway. This follows the closure to traffic of the original junction 4 on slip road and removal of the off slip road on safety grounds. At the same time the original on slip road to the Frank Perkins Parkway which actually joined the Fletton Parkway was closed and a new direct on slip road constructed to the north of junction 4. The dual carriageway quickly passes over the A15 before reaching the grade separated junction (3) with the A1260 which links up with the A15 and the A47. The on slip road then forms a third lane and it moves very quickly to junction two, which is a local access road to the Orton and Hampton townships, before reaching its final junction (1) with the Orton Parkway where it reverts to two lanes before the on slip road again forms a third lane. . The Fletton Parkway then meets the A1, the A1(M) and the A605 at Junction 17. When first opened in 1976 the Fletton Parkway went from the A1 at Haddon to junction 3 where it joined Peterborough's western and northern bypass roads, the Nene Parkway, Soke Parkway and Paston Parkway. A single carriageway road, Phorpres Way, running parallel to the future course of the Fletton Parkway providing a link to the A15. Around 1979 when the eastern bypass, the Frank Perkins Parkway, was completed the Fletton Parkway was extended to junction 4 to join it and complete the ring road

A1139 – Fletton Parkway
Northbound Exits	Junction	Southbound Exits
Ikea Distribution Centre, Junction 4 access	J3A	Whittlesey, A605, Kingston Park Distribution Centre,
City Centre, Bretton, A1260 Nene Parkway	J3	Hampton, Yaxley, A1260 The Serpentine
Orton Malborne, Malborne Way Orton Goldhay, Goldway Way	J2	Hampton, Natures Way
Orton Centre, A1139 Orton Parkway	J1	Great Haddon, Roxhill Distribution Centre
Northampton, A605 Stamford, A1	Terminus	Huntingdon, London, A1(M)

Orton Parkway

The Orton Parkway is a short minor dual carriageway, that is officially classed as the A1139, although it is not part of the main road itself. There is one small roundabout which provides local access to Orton Goldhay, Orton Southgate and Orton Brimbles. The road also helps to carry traffic to events at the nearby East of England Showground.