A58 road
| A58 | |
|---|---|
| Harehills Parade.JPG | |
| Route information | |
| Length | 75 mi (121 km) |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | A57 M57 at Prescot |
| Major intersections | A580 M6 |
| East end | A168 A661 at Wetherby |
| Location | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Primary destinations | St Helens Bolton Bury Rochdale Halifax Leeds |
| Road network | |
The A58 is a major road in Northern England running between Prescot, Merseyside and Wetherby, West Yorkshire.
Route from West to East
[edit ]Its westbound start is at Prescot on the outskirts of Liverpool via Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire to the eastern terminus at Wetherby. The road goes through the following locations:
- St Helens
- Ashton-in-Makerfield
- Hindley
- Westhoughton
- Bolton
- Bury
- Heywood
- Rochdale
- Littleborough
- The Pennines
- Ripponden
- Sowerby Bridge
- Halifax
- Hipperholme
- Birkenshaw
- Drighlington
- New Farnley
- Leeds City Centre as the A58(M) motorway (part of the Leeds Inner Ring Road),
- Scarcroft
- Bardsey
- Collingham
- to its terminus at Wetherby
History
[edit ]Leeds to Wetherby
[edit ]The original route between Leeds and Wetherby has a dual carriageway diverting from Roundhay Road/Wetherby Road, at the old Fforde Grene 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
[edit ]-
A58(M), Leeds Inner Ring Road by the Leeds International Pool
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A58(M), Leeds Inner Ring Road passing underneath the Nuffield Hospital
References
[edit ]- ^ 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
[edit ]Media related to A58 road (England) at Wikimedia Commons
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