A58 road

A58
A58
	Harehills Parade, A58, Roundhay Road, Harehills, Leeds (towards Wetherby)
Route information
Length	75 mi (121 km)
Major junctions
West end	A57 M57 at Prescot
	A580; M6; A6; M61; A666; A56; M66; M62; M606; A58(M); A64(M); A61;
East end	A168 A661 at Wetherby
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Primary; destinations	St Helens; Bolton; Bury; Rochdale; Halifax; Leeds
Road network
	Roads in the United Kingdom; Motorways; A and B road zones;

The A58 is a major road in Northern England running between Prescot, Merseyside and Wetherby, West Yorkshire.

Route from West to East

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

Leeds to Wetherby

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

Terminus of the road in Micklethwaite, Wetherby, West Yorkshire
A58 easterly road separating Oakwood and Gipton in Leeds
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.

Google map of A58

External links

Media related to A58 road (England) at Wikimedia Commons

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[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.

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