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 Rochdale to Bury
The section between Rochdale and Bury was turnpiked by the (37 Geo. 3. c. 146).
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. The proposed Leeds Supertram was also to run this route.
Junction list
Gallery
References
Google map of A58
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