Major road junction faces more overnight closures

14 October 2025

Kris HollandNorthamptonshire

The Queen Eleanor Interchange links a trunk road with Newport Pagnell Road and routes into Northampton and Hardingstone

Google The road junction seen from the air, with a roundabout busy with traffic passing over a trunk road. There are five exits off the roundabout, two of which head to residential areas visible to the right. The land in between the roads is covered in trees and shrubs. — The Queen Eleanor Interchange links a trunk road with Newport Pagnell Road and routes into Northampton and Hardingstone

Further overnight road closures have been announced to allow for work to be carried out at a busy roundabout.

The Queen Eleanor Interchange in Northampton will be shut to northbound traffic between 20:00 BST and 06:00 from 14-17 October to enable surfacing works. Southbound traffic will be unaffected.

West Northamptonshire Council said the latest overnight closures would also allow the switching of traffic management barriers to gain access to the outer ring of the road.

A two-way diversion route will be in place and bus stops on the A45 slip road and nearest the roundabout on London Road and Newport Pagnell Road will be suspended for the duration of the work.

The Reform UK-controlled authority said residents and businesses would have access to their properties at all times.

The Queen Eleanor Interchange is about 450m (0.3 miles) from one of the three remaining stone crosses erected by King Edward I in the 13th Century in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile.

The authority previously said the junction had struggled to "keep up" with an increase in traffic and required major upgrades to widen the carriageway, resurface the road and install new traffic signs and signals.