The Worsley Braided Interchange is a large motorway interchange in the United Kingdom.
9-585: Formal planning began on 12 July 1961, when the government authorised the two surveyors of Lancashire and the West Riding - James Drake of Lancashire and Stuart Maynard Lovell of the West Riding, to plan a 50-mile (80 km) motorway from Worsley, in Lancashire, to Ledsham in the West Riding. From either end, the plan was that there would be improved roads from the eastern end, and from the western end, at Worsley, westwards to Liverpool. The draft plan of
18-544: Is a late seventh-century Anglo-Saxon church (the oldest church and the oldest building standing in West Yorkshire), and nearby Ledston Hall . The village school, like schools in Collingham and Thorp Arch , was named after Lady Elizabeth Hastings . The school is now located in the nearby village of Ledston , which was rated as good by OFSTED in 2018. Ledsham has a cricket team, which currently plays in
27-711: The West Riding of Yorkshire . The parish included the townships of Fairburn and Ledston , which became separate civil parishes in 1866. To the east is Selby Fork junction, which is also partly in South Milford , in North Yorkshire, but previously in the West Riding; in the early 1960s, the M62 motorway was planned to have its eastern terminus at Ledsham, possibly at the Selby Fork junction. There
36-673: The York league. Since 1974 Ledsham has been a part of the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire. It is its own civil parish, and is in the Kippax and Methley ward for local affairs, and is in the Elmet and Rothwell Constituency for national level politics. This West Yorkshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kippax and Methley (ward) Kippax and Methley
45-520: The 24-mile (39 km) section from Worsley to Outlane was published in October 1963, with the further 19 miles (31 km) published on 28 February 1964. The 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 -mile (8.9 km) section route of the M61 to Middle Hulton (junction 4) was fixed on, including the interchange, on 22 March 1967. In 1967, the junction was designed to carry around 150,000 vehicles per day. Construction of
54-539: The A580 to the A56 at Whitefield. Monk was also building Spaghetti Junction, Birmingham . The interchange was planned to open by May 1970. The section connected to the M62 opened on 14 October 1970, and the section connected to the M61 opened on 17 December 1970. Ledsham, West Yorkshire Ledsham is a village and civil parish 4 miles (6 km) north of Castleford and 11 miles (18 km) east of Leeds in
63-576: The county of West Yorkshire , England. The village is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough and near to the A1(M) motorway . It had a population of 162 at the 2001 Census, increasing to 181 at the 2011 Census. Ledsham is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ledesha , as belonging to Ilbert of Lacy and having six villagers, three ploughlands, and 5 acres (2 ha) of meadow. However, it
72-503: The interchange began in the middle of 1967. The M61 section to Worsley began on 1 January 1969, costing £12,434,103, and was to open by the end of December 1970, being built by a consortium of Sir Alfred McAlpine and Leonard Fairclough & Son (who built the bridges). The A580-M62 interchange was built by A. Monk Ltd of Padgate . A contract for 4.1 miles of the M62 was given to Monk Ltd, costing £6,143,887, being built from May 1968, from
81-535: Was recorded in a charter from 1030 as Ledesham . Like nearby Ledston , the name seems to refer to Leeds (or the Old English precursor of this name, Loidis , which denoted a region rather than a town); the second element is the Old English word hām ('homestead, farm'). The name thus meant 'the farm belonging to the region of Loidis'. Ledsham was an ancient parish in the wapentake of Barkston Ash in
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