A58 road

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

A58
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
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
← A57 → A59

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

A58 road between Leeds and 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

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  Terminus of the road in Micklethwaite, Wetherby, West Yorkshire

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  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

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.

• Google map of A58

External links

  Media related to A58 road (England) at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 53°54′18″N 2°09′01″W / 53.90499°N 2.15023°W / 53.90499; -2.15023