A427 road

UK road routebox
road= A427
length-mi= 20
length-km= 32
direction= West-East
start= Market Harborough
destinations= Corby
end= Oundle
construction-date=
completion-date=
junctions= ukroadsmall|6
ukroadsmall|4304
ukroadsmall|6003
ukroadsmall|6014
ukroadsmall|6116
ukroadsmall|43
ukroadsmall|605

The A427 road is a major road in the English Midlands.

It connects Market Harborough and the A6 with Oundle and the A605.

From West to East its route is:
* Market Harborough
* Dingley
* Stoke Albany (bypassed)
* Wilbarston (bypassed)
* Corby (where it is crossed by the A43)
* Weldon
* Upper Benefield
* Lower Benefield
* Oundle

This is a much truncated route. When first designated it ran from a junction with the A45 southwest of Rugby to that town (this is now the A4071) then through Clifton upon Dunsmore to cross the A5 (that stretch was then the B5414 road but is now unclassified) then through Catthorpe (the present A14 uses the underpass for the former A427 as its connection with the M6), Swinford, South Kilworth and North Kilworth (that length is also no longer classified) then Husbands Bosworth, Theddingworth and Lubenham to reach its current western limit at Market Harborough. Between North Kilworth and Market Harborough it is now part of the A4304 connecting the latter to the M1 motorway. Previously, the B4027 from Lutterworth to Coventry was the A427 in its next guise (after following the earlier route of the current A4071), including the current A4303 (dual carriageway from Lutterworth to the A5) and A4304, from Lutterworth to North Kilworth, and the A428 through Binley in east Coventry. This road, from Coventry to Lutterworth, before the A427, was the A4114 (it now runs through west Coventry).