A58 road
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| Route information | ||||
| Length | 75 mi (121 km) | |||
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| West end |  A57  M57 at Prescot | |||
 A580
 A61 | ||||
| East end |  A168  A661 at Wetherby | |||
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| 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 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
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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
[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
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Media related to A58 road (England) 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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