A58 road
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| Route information | |
| Length | 75 mi (121 km) |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Prescot |
| East end | Wetherby |
| Location | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Primary destinations | St Helens Bolton Bury Rochdale Halifax Leeds |
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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
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A58(M), Leeds Inner Ring Road by the Leeds International Pool -
A58(M), Leeds Inner Ring Road passing underneath the Nuffield Hospital
References
- ^ Buckley, Richard (2011). Leeds Trams 1871-1959. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 54. ISBN 9781840335309.
- ^ "Leeds Supertram Route Map". Railway Technology. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
External links
Media related to A58 road at Wikimedia Commons
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53°54′18″N 2°09′01″W / 53.90499°N 2.15023°W
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