77-846: Manchester Road can refer to (among many roads with this name): Parts of the A6 road in England Parts of the A57 road in England Part of the A1206 road in London Part of Missouri Route 100 in the USA [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about roads and streets with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
154-646: A central route through Penrith , entering the town as Bridge Lane then Victoria Road and leaving as 'Stricklandgate then Scotland Road. North of Penrith, it meets the B5305 (which heads to Wigton ) at the Stoneybeck roundabout situated on a new section of the A6 built for junction 41 of the M6. The next section of the A6 is one of the most dangerous roads in the county and follows a former Roman road , having seen several deaths in
231-489: A hump-backed bridge it passes St Osmund's Church . There is a roundabout with Ascot Drive near the Derby Conference Centre , and the road exits as Pride Parkway, which is connected to the adjacent Pride Park Business Park and Pride Park Stadium , home of Derby County F.C. It reaches Litchurch near Derby College's Roundhouse site; the land on which it was built was a former gas works. This section from
308-619: A junction for Ermine Street and Icknield Way . The previous dual carriageway may also be part of the ancient Icknield Way. If you were to continue along the A505 towards Cambridge, you would still be using the Icknield Way. The road may not just be Roman, with many fossils found along this path. After the Junction with the A1198, is a large cutting to form the A505, then is a roundabout with
385-749: A roundabout with Quantock Rise. A roundabout at Streatley , where the road becomes the dual-carriageway Luton Road, passing through the Bartonhill Cutting, the road becomes single carriageway at the roundabout with the B655 at the other end of the Barton-le-Clay bypass. It meets the A507 at a roundabout at Clophill , crossing the River Flit . It passes by Maulden Wood as the dual-carriage up Deadman's Hill then passes Haynes West End. It enters
462-801: A roundabout with the A623. The four-mile (6.4 km) part-dual-carriageway Chapel-en-le-Frith and Whaley Bridge bypass passes a roundabout with the A624 to Glossop on the left and ends with a roundabout with the A5004 for Whaley Bridge and Macclesfield (via the B5470 ). It crosses the Peak Forest Canal and the B6062 leads to Chinley , then goes under the Buxton Line . At Furness Vale it passes
539-600: A roundabout, then passes Bedford College and crosses the River Great Ouse as King Street. It takes two one-way routes (Tavistock Street–High Street and Horne Lane–Union Street) through the town centre, which meet at a roundabout, then continues for around 700 yards. It meets the A5141 again at a roundabout near Bedford Modern School and a large Sainsbury's supermarket and becomes the dual-carriageway Paula Radcliffe Way; it formerly passed through Clapham itself before
616-663: A roundabout. At Ashford-in-the-Water , there is a junction with the A6020 (for Baslow ). The road passes through Taddington Dale . Taddington has a dual-carriageway bypass. There are junctions with the B6049 (for Blackwell ) and A5270, and it enters the district of High Peak and passes under four railway bridges. It enters Buxton as Bakewell Road and meets the B5059 at a roundabout. It leaves Buxton as Fairfield Road, and heads towards Stockport slightly north-east to Dove Holes and to
693-710: A single carriageway, meeting the A59 (for Blackburn ), B6243 (for Ribbleton ), and A6063. It passes through the centre of Preston, becoming North Road, meeting the A5071 (Moor Lane), then becoming Garstang Road. The A6 passes Moor Park and crosses the A5085 Blackpool Road. At Fulwood , it meets the B6242 at crossroads, then passes Sharoe Green . North of junctions with the B6241 Preston ring road, junction 1 of
770-739: Is a restricted Junction at M11 Junction 9. The A505 serves as an access route to the A11 to those from the North, though another alternative would be to use the A14 if coming from the north, to access routes to Thetford and Newmarket . After the Sawston junction, the road continues forward and joins the A11 Northbound ONLY. The left lane is to access Cambridge, Haverhill and Linton on the A1307, and
847-674: Is a roundabout with the M6 at junction 29, which is now shared with the M65 where it becomes a trunk road. The roundabout was formerly the southern end of the Preston Bypass , Britain's first motorway. The road becomes dual-carriageway as it passes Bamber Bridge . There are crossroads with the northern terminus of the A49 then a roundabout with the A582 – where the road heads north as London Way, built in
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#1732787492010924-485: Is called London Road, the previous name of the station, before becoming Piccadilly at Ducie Street. It continues north-west towards Piccadilly Gardens , a major public square and bus station. To the immediate right of this point is the Northern Quarter , an eclectic and bohemian neighbourhood containing cafes, bars and alternative stores. Here, Piccadilly becomes Market Street, a pedestrian commercial avenue, and
1001-634: Is called the Weston Hills Tunnels . This piece of the road is not open to cyclists, farm traffic, motorcyclists under 50cc and has height and width restrictions. The road passes a junction and dips into a large hill on the almost perfectly straight Dual Carriageway. The road follows the railway track. After another roundabout is the Royston Bypass . Here, the road passes through the Greenwich Meridian . The first roundabout
1078-745: Is known as the London to Carlisle trunk road. The A6 begins as a short stretch of Crawley Green Road at an elongated roundabout with the A505 road – part of the Luton inner ring road . The A6 follows Crescent Road past Luton railway station into New Bedford Road. It meets the A5228 outer ring road at a roundabout. On the outskirts of Luton, now Barton Road, it meets the Icknield Way Path . Leaving Luton, it enters Central Bedfordshire after
1155-688: Is one of the main north–south roads in England . It runs from Luton in Bedfordshire to Carlisle in Cumbria , although it formerly started at a junction with the A1 at Barnet in north London, and is described as running from London to Carlisle. Running north-west from Luton, the road passes through Bedford , bypasses Rushden , Kettering and Market Harborough , continues through Leicester , Loughborough , Derby and Matlock before passing through
1232-709: Is the B5231 for Morecambe, and a road for Halton . It crosses the Lancaster Canal and meets the A683 Heysham to M6 Link Road , and then heads through Hest Bank as Lancaster Road passing Bolton-le-Sands . It crosses the Lancaster Canal and meets the A5105 Coastal Road (from Morecambe) to the left at Bolton-le-Sands . Here the road is at its closest point to Morecambe Bay . It follows the Lancaster Canal and enters Carnforth as Lancaster Road and meets
1309-608: Is the Luton to Hitchin stretch, which leads directly to both. The 2 lane road passes through the English countryside before entering Hitchin . There is a roundabout, which southbound using the A602 takes you to Stevenage . Heading north will keep you on the A505. After passing through a one way system, you will find another roundabout. Heading north takes you onto the A600 heading towards Shefford and Bedford . Heading East will keep you on
1386-598: Is the terminus point of the A1198, a Royston to Huntingdon road which is in a perfect straight line, and serves part of the London – Lincoln Roman Road, Ermine Street . This road was also previously numbered the A14. Ermine Street now joins the A1(M) and the A607 where it enters Lincoln. Unfortunately, the road is not all joined up, and there is very little trace south of Royston. The site of this Roundabout, or near Royston, may have been
1463-513: The A10 , with northbound going to Cambridge via the popular Shepreth Wildlife Park and Trumpington Park and Ride . Southbound on the A10 will take you into Royston towards London. The A505 continues northbound, leaves Hertfordshire and enters Cambridgeshire . The road continues as single carriageway roughly north-easterly, following the ancient Icknield Way past Goffers knoll and passing through
1540-637: The A10 . Icknield Way bears off north to join the A11 whilst the A505 continues forward to Whittlesford , then another roundabout with a service station ( BP ) and the A1301, northbound to Sawston , The Shelfords and Cambridge, the southbound route goes to Saffron Walden and the Historic Chesterfords where the Icknield Way once ran. Saffron Walden would be signposted from the M11 previously, as there
1617-638: The A1081 for most of its length. In the initial road numbering scheme, the A6 started in Barnet where it joined what was then the A1 Great North Road . From Barnet the road went to London Colney , St Albans , Harpenden to join the current start of the road at Luton . At St Albans , the road met the then A5 at a crossroads: going north on both roads, the A5 arriving from the south-west, and leaving
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#17327874920101694-472: The A14 at Barton Seagrave . Kettering was bypassed when sections of the east–west corridor A14 were built. The A6 reappears at junction 3 of the A14, from there it continues north bypassing Rothwell and Desborough until it meets a roundabout with the B576 (the pre-bypass former A6 route through Desborough and Rothwell). The road enters Leicestershire and the district of Harborough as Harborough Road at
1771-773: The A418 , the A4146 and the B440 south of Leighton Buzzard as a wide A-Class Primary Route . The road passes through two roundabouts as a single carriageway, and acts as the Leighton Buzzard Bypass. To enter Leighton Buzzard from the A505, an advisable route is to use the A4012 North from the roundabout at Billington. Southbound on the B440 from here will take you towards Hemel Hempstead and Whipsnade Zoo . Continue along
1848-787: The A590 and overlaps the A591 becoming a trunk road, the dual-carriageway Kendal bypass. It passes Sizergh Castle before leaving at a GSJ becoming the single carriageway Milnthorpe Road. It passes through Kendal , splitting in two, where it meets the northern end of the A65 . In Kendal, it passes Kendal College and the Queen Katherine School . It crosses the River Kent on the Nether Bridge and Miller Bridge. It passes under
1925-875: The A594 . The A6 crosses the Grand Union Canal and the River Soar as St Margarets Way. It becomes dual-carriageway on the northern outskirts of Leicester and passes the National Space Centre in Belgrave as Abbey Lane. Later, it meets a roundabout with the A563 outer ring-road entering the borough of Charnwood . North of Leicester, as Loughborough Road, it meets the A46 Leicester Western Bypass just south of Rothley and
2002-416: The Forton service station on the M6. At Potters Brook , it meets a crossroads and enters the City of Lancaster . It meets the M6 at junction 33 and goes through Galgate as Main Road, passing under the West Coast Main Line, which it then runs adjacent to. The University of Lancaster lies in the 0.6-mile (1 km) separation between the A6 and the M6, where there is a short section of dual-carriageway on
2079-402: The Leighton Buzzard to Luton railway , as far as Dunstable. It also shares its route with the A5 near Dunstable and the A1081 near Luton Airport ( grid reference TL 110 206 ). The section between Letchworth and Royston follows the Icknield Way , with the deviations of modern bypasses at Baldock and Royston. The £43 million Baldock bypass includes the Weston Hills Tunnel . Originally
2156-402: The M55 is a roundabout on the A6 connected by slip roads with the motorway above. This was formerly the northern end of the Preston bypass. After the motorway, a 1.2-mile (2 km) bypass opened in 2017 takes the A6 east of Broughton , where it formerly met the B5269 at crossroads; the bypass, James Towers Way, is dual carriageway as far as the roundabout where the roads now cross and meets
2233-445: The Peak District to Bakewell , Buxton , Stockport , Manchester , Salford , Chorley , Preston , Lancaster , Kendal and Penrith before reaching Carlisle . South of Derby, the road runs approximately parallel to the M1 motorway ; between Manchester and Preston, it is close to the M6 and M61 motorways; and from Preston to its northern terminus in Carlisle, it is close to the M6. The A6, which runs from Luton to Carlisle
2310-404: The River Petteril (near a large radio mast) then the Tyne Valley railway line . The A6 travels through south-eastern Carlisle as London Road, before finishing at Botchergate in the centre of Carlisle where it transforms into the A7 which runs out of Carlisle and across the Anglo-Scottish border terminating at Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh . The route of the old A6 south of Luton is now
2387-427: The River Sence and there is a roundabout. The bypass ends with a roundabout, just before the road enters the district of Oadby and Wigston . On the outskirts of Leicester the road becomes London Road. There is a roundabout with Florence Wragg Way, where the road becomes Glen Road. It then becomes Leicester Road before reaching the outer ring-road ( A563 ), next to Leicester Racecourse . It becomes London Road, where
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2464-462: The Windermere Branch Line near Kendal railway station then meets the A685 (to Kirkby Stephen ), passes over the River Mint as Shap Road and is crossed by the Dales Way . It briefly passes through the Lake District National Park . It crosses Borrowdale Beck (a tributary of the River Lune) and Huck's Bridge at Borrowdale, Westmorland , it enters the Eden district . The road climbs to over 1,350 feet (410 m) at Shap Summit , and heads over
2541-422: The railway station and the primary school. It meets the A6015 at New Mills (Newtown) for the town centre, near the railway station and primary school, where the road enters Cheshire . At Disley on Market Street, the road passes the police station then crosses the Buxton Line near the railway station . At High Lane , the road enters the Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester . Towards Stockport ,
2618-455: The 1980s to bypass Bamber Bridge and later widened. The start of the M65 is accessible only from this roundabout at junction 1a. It crosses the East Lancashire Line and meets the B5257 at a roundabout. It meets the B6230 at a roundabout at Dog Kennel Wood, crosses the River Darwen and meets the A675 at Walton-le-Dale , where the bypass ends. The A6 crosses the River Ribble and the Ribble Way , entering Preston district. It enters Preston as
2695-419: The A1(M), becomes a primary route, usually marked green on both atlases and signs. The recent construction of the Baldock bypass has created a dual carriageway from the A1(M) J9 through to Royston. A roundabout allows traffic into Baldock via the B197, as does a junction after the tunnel. The tunnel is a later redevelopment with the Baldock bypass. It travels under one of the Chiltern Hills , under farmland, and
2772-425: The A1081 and rejoin A505) After Luton the road continues North East signposted towards Hitchin . The A505 passes the major London Luton Airport . Passing Luton Airport and continuing north towards a dual carriageway that will lead you out of Luton. The dual carriageway here is a secondary route, but still A-Class. This road has white signposts and is marked red on most atlas maps and OS Landranger maps. This road
2849-536: The A505 along a 50 MPH stretch with speed cameras to reach the A5 at a roundabout, where the A5 (in the form of a spur) replaces its existing eastbound route to form the Dunstable Northern Bypass to M1 Junction 11a. Going northbound on the motorway will take you to Milton Keynes , Northampton and Birmingham , whilst southbound will take you to Luton , London and St Albans . The A505 continues southbound into Dunstable . There are speed cameras again on this piece of road. An east turn in Dunstable takes you to Luton on
2926-468: The A505. This road winds through the eastern suburbs of Hitchin as a single carriageway. The road then enters Letchworth Garden City , though only the outskirts on the south side. Signs are posted in either direction, showing both routes to Hitchin and the A1(M) . Heading South at a roundabout in Letchworth will result in arriving at the A1(M). An A road given a motorway standard due to its high speed. The A505 joins this road at Junction 9. The A505, after
3003-578: The A6 alongside the West Coast Main Line. The road enters Lancaster as Scotforth Road then Greaves Road. It meets the A588 Ashton Road for Preesall at a roundabout, continues past the Royal Lancaster Infirmary on the left, then crosses the Lancaster Canal. It splits in two as it passes through the centre of Lancaster. It rejoins and splits again to cross the River Lune on the Greyhound Bridge and older Skerton Bridge . The A589 crosses for Morecambe and Caton and M6 junction 34. The road rejoins as Owen Road near Skerton Community High School and there
3080-420: The A6 designation is discontinued. It then resumes at Chapel Street after crossing the River Irwell . The road crosses the River Irwell at the A56, besides the medieval quarter of Manchester, containing Manchester Cathedral , Chetham's Library , the oldest free public library in the world, and Victoria station . Here the road is called Chapel Street as it leaves Manchester City Centre and enters Salford . Where
3157-428: The A6 enters Westhoughton . Then it crosses the Manchester to Southport railway line and meets the B5236 at Wingates near St John's Primary School and the St. John the Evangelist Church. On leaving Westhoughton, the road becomes Chorley Road. At Four Gates, there is the B5239 for Aspull . It meets the A6027 roundabout close to the M61 junction 6 for Horwich . It passes through Hilton House, at Scot Lane End, it meets
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3234-416: The A615 at a roundabout. The road then continues on Bakewell Road into Darley Dale , where the road, as Dale Road, passes the hospital, and crossroads with the B5057. From Matlock the road enters the Peak District National Park . From Rowsley , it follows the River Wye , meeting the B5056 near the endpoint of the River Lathkill . It passes Haddon Hall and enters Bakewell , meeting the B5055 and A619 at
3311-449: The B5408 for Blackrod , becoming the Blackrod By-Pass Road. It meets the B5238, for Horwich, at crossroads near Blackrod railway station . Close by on the M61 is the Rivington services (formerly Bolton West services). It rejoins the old route where it meets the B5408. Leaving Greater Manchester, it enters Adlington, Lancashire , and the district of Chorley where it crosses the River Douglas as Chorley Road, becoming Market Street. In
3388-400: The B6228 at a roundabout, passes the railway station , then meets the A581 and B6229. It passes a hospital and meets the B5252 at a roundabout where it crosses the railway . The dual-carriageway A674 goes to Blackburn via the nearby junction 8 of the M61 and the Preston England Temple , a Mormon temple. From Chorley, it meets the B6229 and B5248 at Whittle-le-Woods , passing the St John
3465-428: The B6254 which leads to M6 junction 35. Leaving Carnforth , the A6 follows Scotland Road across the River Keer . It meets the former A601(M) at junction 35a of the M6 near Warton . There is a roundabout with the A6070, and the road, which has a short section of dual-carriageway, crosses the West Coast Main Line near Yealand Conyers . It enters Cumbria and the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area near
3542-413: The Derwent Valley, entering the district of Amber Valley through Duffield and Belper . At Whatstandwell it meets the B5035 (for Crich and Wirksworth ), then enters the district of Derbyshire Dales . At Cromford , it meets the A5012 ( Via Gellia ) before passing Matlock Bath . Entering Matlock , the road passes under the railway and along a new bypass and then over the River Derwent, meeting
3619-405: The Evangelist Church and crossing the River Lostock . It enters Clayton-le-Woods and meets the B5256 (for Leyland ) at a roundabout near Cuerden Hall . It passes through Clayton Brook and crosses the M65 , entering the South Ribble district, near its western terminus. There are two roundabouts for the Walton Summit Industrial Estate, either of which lead to the Walton Summit Motorway. Next
3696-419: The Lakeland Wildlife Oasis Centre and Hale Moss. Nearby on the M6 is the Burton-in-Kendal services . It passes through Hale . At Beetham , it crosses the River Bela then passes through Milnthorpe as Beetham Road and Church Street, meeting the B5282 and B6385. It by-passes Heversham as Princes Way (built in 1927), passing by Levens Hall , crosses the River Kent at the old Levens Bridge. The A6 then meets
3773-417: The Linnyshaw Industrial Estate on the right. The A6 meets the A575 (for Worsley and Farnworth ) and B5232 (for Boothstown ) at crossroads where the road is dual-carriageway as High Street. It becomes Manchester Road East and continues towards Little Hulton . It meets the A5082 (for Tyldesley and Farnworth) at crossroads near St Paul's Church, Peel, becoming Manchester Road West. On leaving Little Hulton,
3850-412: The Lowther Castle Inn. It passes over the M6 near Lowther , which is near the Lakeland Bird of Prey Centre. It passes over the railway at Clifton near Penrith . There is a turn for Brougham and it crosses the River Lowther at Eamont Bridge where it meets the B6262 and crosses the River Eamont over a narrow bridge. It meets the A66 at Kemplay roundabout next to Penrith Hospital . The A6 takes
3927-410: The Queen's Head pub and the exit for Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre . It then continues for around three miles, passing the Falcon pub near Bletsoe then passes Sharnbrook at a roundabout. Around a mile later it crosses into Northamptonshire and enters the district of North Northamptonshire . It passes through the village of Wymington, and passes the exit to the Santa Pod Raceway , bypasses
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#17327874920104004-428: The Shap Fells into Wasdale where it leaves the National Park and passes the RMC granite works. A spur of the A6 meets the B6261 and joins the M6 at junction 39. The road is no longer a trunk road and passes the Corus lime kilns on Hardendale Fell and enters Shap where it is crossed by the Coast to Coast Walk , and over the West Coast Line. It passes under then over the M6, then passes close to Hackthorpe Hall and
4081-420: The centre of Adlington it meets the B6227 near Adlington railway station , and the police station, becoming Church Street then Westhoughton Road. It crosses the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and meets the A673 from Bolton and A5106 from Standish . It crosses the River Yarrow and passes the Albany Science College as Bolton Road. In Chorley, the central section is dual-carriageway with many roundabouts. It meets
4158-446: The construction of the Paula Radcliffe Way Bypass in 2001. The A6 crosses the River Great Ouse twice more, and is crossed by the John Bunyan Trail, near a GSJ for Clapham and Oakley . There is another GSJ for Highfield Parc Industrial Estate. At the end of the bypass, the road loses the broad expanse of tarmac and looks like a minor B road and becomes Bedford Road where there are speed cameras. It passes through Milton Ernest, passing
4235-409: The crossroads north-west, and the A6 arriving from the south-east and leaving to the north-east. A505 road The A505 is a road in the East of England . It follows part of the route of the Icknield Way and the corresponding Icknield Way Path and runs from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire to the A11 Abington Interchange North in Cambridgeshire . The road begins at a roundabout with
4312-424: The district of Bedford and bypasses Wilstead . It meets the A421 at the Elstow Interchange grade-separated junction (GSJ). The A6 meets the A5134 at a large signal-controlled junction. The road crosses the Marston Vale Line and enters Bedford as Ampthill Road. There is a roundabout with the A5141 , then it crosses the railway again near Bedford St Johns railway station . It meets the A600 and A5140 at
4389-437: The district of North West Leicestershire . To the south of Kegworth the road heads west along a bypass avoiding the village. It joins the A453 at the East Midlands Gateway industrial park. The A453 then joins the M1 at the roundabout at junction 24, which is where the A50 Derby to Stoke-on-Trent Link begins. The road follows one of the former A6 dual-carriageway sections, passing Lockington , before meeting traffic from
4466-442: The dual-carriageway ends, and it enters the city of Leicester, passing Leicester High School for Girls. There is a crossroads, for Stoughton Road ( A6030 ) at Stoneygate , and a roundabout with the Victoria Park Road (B568). It passes close to Leicester University and many take-away shops. It crosses the Midland Main Line near Leicester railway station . In the centre of Leicester, it is subsumed into Leicester's inner ring-road,
4543-488: The first roundabout to Station Approach (B6000) includes a 900-foot (270 m) viaduct with 180-foot (55 m) spans over the Midland Main Line. The A6 meets a former route beside the Derbion shopping centre, a former roundabout that was replaced with traffic lights with a multi-storey car park in the centre. The road overlaps the A601, Derby's inner ring-road and the A52 , crossing the River Derwent , then leaving as King Street at an intersection on St Alkmund's Way near
4620-428: The former A6 at another roundabout. Through Barton , still as Garstang Road, it runs along the Preston and Wyre district boundary, converging with the West Coast Main Line and crossing the railway on a bridge. The district boundary crosses to the other side of the road and it enters the Borough of Wyre . It passes through Bilsborrow before leaving the district boundary, crosses the River Brock at Brock , and passes
4697-415: The former site of St Alkmund 's Church. This section to the A38 has a weight limit. As Garden Street, it splits in two at an elongated roundabout surrounding a service station and a pub. At a roundabout known locally as the Five Lamps, it becomes Duffield Road. North of Derby, there is the Palm Court roundabout (named after the former Palm Court café which closed in 2005), a junction with the A38 . It follows
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#17327874920104774-438: The hamlet of Flint Cross and over the Anglo-Saxon earthwork Bran Ditch . It enters the village of Duxford and passes the Imperial War Museum Duxford . The road crosses the M11 at Junction 10 – southbound leading to Bishop's Stortford , Stansted Airport , Harlow and London, but is just signposted for London and Airport. Northbound is signposted to The Midlands with Cambridge and A14 . It also leads to Huntingdon and
4851-460: The junction with Barton Road. Along Chorley Road the road passes Swinton Post Office and Salford Civic Centre , at the town centre's crossroads with the B5231. The road heads north-west towards Linnyshaw and Walkden . The road passes under the M60 near the junction with the M61 , near the Worsley Braided Interchange and Wardley Hall (home of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford ) and enters Whittle Brook and Walkden as Manchester Road, passing
4928-412: The junction with Langworthy Road (A5186). At Irlams o' th' Height it departs from the dual carriageway, at the terminus of the A580 East Lancashire Road , at the border of Pendlebury . It becomes Manchester Road through Pendlebury for a short distance passing both the site of the former Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and Hospital Road. The road enters Swinton and passes Victoria Park opposite
5005-440: The junction with the B5093 is Levenshulme railway station . It goes under the railway and meets the A5079 (Slade Lane) from the south. There are crossroads with the A6010, and the A5184 leaves. In Longsight , it meets the A665 Manchester inner ring road and the A57 at a roundabout, which it overlaps until it goes under the A57(M) / A635(M) , passing the University of Manchester . As it passes Manchester Piccadilly station it
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5159-436: The original Salford Royal Hospital stands (now flats) at its junction with Adelphi Street, its name changes to the Crescent. Along this stretch the road passes the University of Salford , and Salford Museum and Art Gallery , and the Working Class Movement Library , as well as Salford Crescent railway station near the junction with Albion Way. It then continues as the dual carriageway Broad Street through Pendleton and past
5236-435: The past few years. This section through Inglewood Forest in Hesket civil parish follows a parallel path to the M6, and passes through Plumpton where it meets the B6413; an old Roman fort, Voreda, at Castlesteads Farm; High Hesket which it bypasses; Low Hesket; enters the City of Carlisle near Cotehill ; and meets the M6 (and the B6263) at junction 42: the start of the Carlisle bypass. Entering Carlisle , it crosses
5313-401: The right lane for A11 routes to Norwich and Thetford and A14 routes EAST to Newmarket , Bury St Edmunds , Ipswich and Felixstowe . After the A1307 to the Six Mile Bottom Junction is part of the Icknield Way continued from the Chesterfords and the A505 before. For part of its route between Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable (the "Leighton Buzzard bypass"), the road uses the former route of
5390-438: The road becomes Buxton Road. In Stepping Hill, it goes near the hospital . At Mersey Square, Stockport just before the road crosses the M60 , the road becomes Wellington Road North and crosses the Stockport to Stalybridge Line . At Heaton Chapel , there are crossroads with the B5169 (for Reddish ), and the A626 joins to the right. It enters the city of Manchester just before it meets the B6178 and becomes Stockport Road. Near
5467-417: The road enters the Borough of Bolton near the Chloride Battery Works. Near Farnworth, the road meets the M61 , at junction 4, which closely follows parallel with the A6 up to Preston. The road is now the primary route Salford Road and meets the A579 at crossroads at Hulton Lane Ends becoming Manchester Road. It meets the A58 at a roundabout at Chequerbent and is no longer a trunk road. Close to M61 junction 5,
5544-559: The secondary A class road, A505. The A505 will reach the M1 motorway at Junction 11. Prior to this is a roundabout with the road number A5065. Taking the A5065 into Luton is a replacement to the A505 which resumes after Luton as a dual carriageway. The route through Luton is as follows: A5065; A6 South East to the Airport; A505 North, or use the M1 (M1 South; Exit at Junction 10 and travel North on
5621-712: The site of a former railway station; a bridge carries the road over the Lancaster Canal . At Catterall , it meets the B6430 – the original A6 route – and crosses the River Wyre , and as Preston Lancaster New Road meets the A586 (for Churchtown ). It enters Garstang and crosses the Lancaster Canal again. It meets the B5272 and B6430 – the original A6 coming back to meet us – and enters Cabus . At Forton , it passes close to
5698-687: The south-bound M1 at junction 24a. The three-laned A6 overlaps the A50 for a couple of miles, and there is a junction with the B6540 (former A453 ). The road crosses the Trent and Mersey Canal and River Trent , where it enters Derbyshire and the district of South Derbyshire . Elvaston Castle is to the east. The road enters Derby along London Road and at Alvaston it meets the A5111 Derby Ring Road (Raynesway). It enters Crewton and just after
5775-632: The start of the five-mile (8 km) Market Harborough Bypass. It briefly re-enters Northamptonshire where there is a roundabout with the A427 (for Stoke Albany ) and A4304 (former A427), and an exit for Great Bowden . The road is crossed by the Leicestershire Round. There is a turn for Foxton and Foxton Locks . It is crossed by the Midland Main Line. The A6 passes through Kibworth . The road becomes Leicester Road. It crosses
5852-611: The start of the four-mile (6.4 km) dual-carriageway Quorn - Mountsorrel Bypass. The road at this point follows the Soar Valley , and is mostly on embankment or viaduct, crossing the river four times. From here the road passes through Loughborough. North of Hathern is a dual-carriageway section that skirts the Leicestershire– Nottinghamshire border (the River Soar). The road becomes London Road and enters
5929-747: The towns of Rushden and Higham Ferrers , arriving at the Chown's Mill roundabout with the A45 . From here the road bridges the River Nene and the Nene Way before bypassing Irthlingborough . The A6 then passes through the town of Finedon and intersects the A510 at a roundabout. Leaving Finedon, the road passes the Burton Wold Wind Farm and bypasses Burton Latimer and arrives at junction 10 of
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