A240 road
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| Major junctions | |
| South East end | Burgh Heath, Surrey |
 A217A24  A2022 A232 A3210A3  A307 | |
| North West end | Kingston upon Thames, Greater London |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
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The A240 is a partially primary status A road in Surrey and Greater London that connects the A217 with the A3 and continues beyond through Surbiton to Kingston upon Thames. It is dualled throughout the Ewell by-pass and Tolworth stretch.
For long distance travel, it facilitates access to central, southern and western parts of Greater London to avoid congestion during busier periods through Merton where the A24 and A297 road (which takes much traffic from the A217 road) combine into a single carriageway.
Route
Branching off the A217 on at Burgh Heath, at the north of a plateau of the North Downs at 178m OD,[1] the road descends northwest passing the large village of Great Burgh or Epsom Downs as a single carriageway primary road, through traffic-lit crossroad junctions with the suburban B2221[n 1].
The B291[n 2] branches off and after there is a crossroads for Yew Tree Road[n 3]. The A240 crosses the Sutton and Mole Valley Epsom Downs branch line and immediately afterwards the A2022 leaves westbound at a roundabout. After, the A240 continues on its descent through a short stretch of tree-lined open space, before returning to a more suburban setting at the outskirts of Ewell.
At the bottom of this incline the elevation reaches 45m OD[1] and the A24 joins from the southwest. After meeting the A24 the gradient slows it runs concurrently with that road as the Ewell Bypass and becomes a dual carriageway. At another crossroads, the A24 heads off north (the B2200, whilst the bypass continues as the A240 west over the railway line through Stoneleigh railway station before meeting the B284 again at Ruxley Lane. The B284 then branches off at Worcester Prk Road. The A240 then crosses the A3 at the Tolworth junction, a grade separated roundabout.
Now as a non primary road and a single carriageway road again, the A240 proceeds north westerly with the A3210 exiting northwest and then crosses the South Western Main Line northeast of Surbiton railway station. In Surbiton it has two junctions with the commercial roads that form the B3363, then it turns due North has a junction with the short link road B3365 too the A307 before it terminates on the that road in a roundabout in Kingston town centre.
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A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain road numbering scheme | ||
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