A58 road

A58 road
290px Harehills Parade, A58, Roundhay Road, Harehills, Leeds (towards Wetherby)
Route information
Length:	75 mi (121 km)
Major junctions
West end:	Prescot
East end:	Wetherby
Location
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 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 partially bypasses its original route, 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. The proposed Leeds Supertram was also to run this route.

Gallery

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  The terminus of the road in Micklethwaite, Wetherby, West Yorkshire

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  The A58 easterly road separating Oakwood and Gipton in Leeds

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  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

• Google map of A58

External links

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