A59 road
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The A59 is a major road in the United Kingdom that runs from Liverpool in Merseyside to York in Yorkshire.
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[edit] Merseyside
The A59 begins in the centre of Liverpool at the mouth of the Birkenhead Tunnel, and heads north out of the city, first as Scotland Road in Everton, then Kirkdale Road and Walton Road then further on to County Road, then along Rice Lane and on to Walton Vale. It passes Aintree racecourse on Warbreck Moor and Ormskirk Road, before reaching the Switch Island junction, which is a large semi roundabout semi traffic light controlled junction, where the A5036, the M57, the M58 and the A59 all meet.
From the Switch Island junction the A59 travels through Maghull, Lydiate, Aughton and thence to Ormskirk.
[edit] Lancashire
At Ormskirk, it reverts from a dual carriageway to single carriageway, on an old bypass.
North of Ormskirk the A59 passes through Burscough and Rufford, before reaching the traffic light controlled crossroads at Tarleton, where the A565 joins. From here the road goes through Much Hoole and Bretherton before becoming the Longton (and Hutton) bypass.
The road passes the Lancashire Police HQ, before going through Penwortham and into Preston. Once out of Preston the A59 meets the M6 at junction 31 between Lower Brockholes and Samlesbury.
After the M6, bypassing Blackburn the A59 goes through Myerscough Smithy, veers left, and runs around the perimeter of Samlesbury Aerodrome (a British Aerospace installation). It then goes through Mellor, Osbaldeston, Copster Green and Langho where it meets the A666. At this point it bypasses Billington and Whalley before reaching Clitheroe (another bypass) and Chatburn. Before the 1974 boundary changes the road would now have been in Yorkshire. After Chatburn the road goes past Sawley before going through the village of Gisburn (which is said to have been spelt 'Gisburne' for hundreds of years until the railway came along and a railway employee missed the "e" off the station sign).
[edit] Yorkshire
The road enters Yorkshire near Horton from whence it goes through West and East Marton before a roundabout junction with the A56 after which the road passes Broughton. Afer passing through Broughton, the road comes to the Skipton bypass, and then goes through Low Skibeden. It then passes over the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway through a roundabout junction with the B6260 passing Beamsley Moor and Summerscales from where there is a long narrow descent on the edge of a huge ravine, down to the village of Blubberhouses.
The A59 then runs along the head of Fewston Reservoir and follows the route of a Roman road past the 'golf balls' at Menwith Hill, a US listening station. The road then drops down to Harrogate passing Kettlesing and Rowden as it does so. In Harrogate it meets the A61 Ripon Road, and continues through the suburbs of the town, avoiding the centre. It goes through Starbeck, then heads east to Knaresborough.
From Knaresborough the A59 goes by Goldsborough to the A1(M), then passes by Green Hammerton. Originally it ended here, with the A66 coming down from Boroughbridge and going into York. Now the A59 itself goes into York by such places as Nun Monkton, Upper Poppleton and Moor Monkton before finally ending just to the west of the city walls on Dalton Terrace, just off the A1036, the old A64.
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A roads in Zone 5 of the Great Britain road numbering system |
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| A5 | A50 - A51 - A52 - A53 - A54 - A55 - A56 - A57 - A58 - A59 | |
| A500 - A501 - A505 - A508 - A509 - A511 - A512 - A514 - A518 - A519 | ||
| A525 - A528 - A530 - A533 - A556 - A562 - A563 - A565 - A570 - A574 - A580 - A583 | ||
| A590 - A591 -A592 - A594 - A595 - A596 - | ||
| A5012 - A5025 - A5036 - A5038 | ||
| A5103 - A5112 - A5117 - A5124 - A5127 - A5130 | ||
| A5183 - A5199 - A5300 | ||
| List of A roads in Zone 5 | ||
