Treacle Mine Roundabout is a suburban roundabout between

Grays Grays or Greys may refer to: Places * Grays Bay, Nunavut, Canada * Grays, Essex, a town in Essex, England ** Grays railway station ** Grays School * Grays, Kent, a hamlet in Kent, England * Rotherfield Greys or Greys, a village in Oxfordshire, En ...

and Stifford Clays,

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

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. It is named, as is the adjacent

public house A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and wa ...

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 programme. History Formation London Country Bus Services Ltd was ...

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 is an area in the Borough of Thurrock in the ceremonial county of Essex. Chafford Hundred is north-west of Grays. Its railway station serves the area and Lakeside Shopping Centre. Lakeside Shopping Centre is in West Thurrock ...

, an

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

commuting Commuting is periodically recurring travel between one's 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 regu ...

traffic.

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