A58 road

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A58 road

Harehills Parade, A58, Roundhay Road, Harehills, Leeds (towards Wetherby)
Route information
Length: 75 mi (121 km)
Major junctions
West end: Prescot
East end: Wetherby
Location
Primary
destinations:		 St Helens
Bolton
Bury
Rochdale
Halifax
Leeds
Road network

The A58 is a major road in northern England that runs between Prescot, Merseyside and Wetherby, West Yorkshire.

It runs north east from Prescot on the outskirts of Liverpool via St Helens, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Hindley, Westhoughton, Bolton, Bury, Heywood, Rochdale and Littleborough, then over the Pennines into West Yorkshire.

The road then goes through Ripponden and Sowerby Bridge to Halifax and onwards to Leeds via the villages of Hipperholme, Birkenshaw and Drighlington. It runs through Leeds as the A58(M) motorway (part of the Leeds Inner Ring Road), then north-east through Scarcroft, Bardsey and Collingham to its terminus at Wetherby.

The original route between Leeds and Wetherby was bypassed with a new dual carriageway diverting from Roundhay Road/ Wetherby Road, at the old Fforde Green junction in Harehills. It runs along the Easterly Road dual carriageway passing Oakwood and Gipton. The re-routed A58 meets its original route at Boggart Hill in Seacroft. The re-routed section was constructed in the 1930s and had a branch of the Leeds Tramway running along the central reservation until the 1950s.[1] The proposed Leeds Supertram was also to run this route.[2]

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ Buckley, Richard (2011). Leeds Trams 1871-1959. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 54. ISBN 9781840335309.
  2. ↑ "Leeds Supertram Route Map". Railway Technology. Retrieved 20 March 2016.

External links

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Coordinates: 53°54′18″N 2°09′01″W / 53.90499°N 2.15023°W / 53.90499; -2.15023


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