Treacle Mine Roundabout is a suburban roundabout between Grays and

Stifford Clays Stifford Clays, historically also known as Flethall and Clay's Hall, is a housing estate and ward in the Stifford area of Grays in Thurrock, Essex, England. It is situated on a 660 acre site north of central Grays and borders North Stifford and ...

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. It is named, as is the adjacent

public house A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption Licensing laws of the United Kingdom#On-licence, on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the ...

Treacle Mine pub
for the legend of Treacle mines. The roundabout was built to link the new A13 to its former route (the A1306) and ''Long Lane'' at the top of ''Hogg Lane'': a spot that

London Country London Country Bus Services was a bus company that operated in South East England from 1970 until 1986, when it was split up and later sold as part of the Bus deregulation in the United Kingdom, bus deregulation programme. History From 1933, L ...

bus timetables used to call ''Grays Corner''. There was another ''Grays Corner'' elsewhere on the A13, so the name ''Treacle Mine'' was used informally to distinguish this older junction. This junction needed improving despite the long distance A13 traffic being bypassed because of the construction of

Chafford Hundred Chafford Hundred, or simply Chafford, is a housing development and suburb in the town of Grays in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. Chafford Hundred is north-west of Grays Town Centre. Its railway station serves the area and Lakesi ...

, an Infill development on former quarries, industrial and farming land, and the consequent increase in

commuting Commuting is periodically recurring travel between a place of residence and place of work or study, where the traveler, referred to as a commuter, leaves the boundary of their home community. By extension, it can sometimes be any regular o ...

traffic.

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