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The A56 is a road in England which extends between the city of Chester in Cheshire and the village of Broughton in North Yorkshire.The road contains a mixture of single and dual carriageway sections, and traverses environments as diverse as the dense urban sprawl of inner city Manchester and the lightly populated region of rural east Lancashire.
Deansgate is a main road (part of the A56) through Manchester City Centre, England. It runs roughly north–south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre and is the longest road in the city centre at over one mile in length. [1]
During its design it was known as Link Road 17/7. The scheme lies over the geological West Manchester Fault. It would be the first elevated main road to be built outside London, and the UK's second aerial motorway after the Hammersmith flyover. [4] The road is 3,232 ft (985 m) long and has 28 spans of 105 ft (32 m), and two spans of 60 ft (18 m).
The A556 is a road in England which extends from the village of Delamere in Cheshire West and Chester to the Bowdon Interchange in Cheshire East, bordering Greater Manchester. [1] [2] The road contains a mixture of single and dual carriageway sections and forms a large part of the route between Manchester and Chester. It also acts as a major ...
With a length of 33.3 miles (53.6 km), it connects North Wales and the Wirral peninsula with much of the rest of North West England, serves business and commuter traffic heading towards Manchester, particularly that from the wider Cheshire area, and provides the main road access to Manchester Airport from the national motorway network.
The original A563 appeared in the 1922 Road Lists as "Liverpool - Manchester (Proposed new road)"; the route never appeared on any maps nor did it appear on the ground. A 1932 map does show a proposed A road between Walton, Liverpool and Pendlebury, Salford; this opened in 1934 as the A580, although it is likely it took over at least some of ...
Location mi km Junction Destinations Notes Lancashire: Edenfield: 0 0 — [coord 1] A56 - Haslingden: Road continues from A56 Greater Manchester — 2.2 3.6 1 [coord 2] A56 - Edenfield, Bury: No Southbound exit or Northbound entrance Bury: 5.5 8.8 2 [coord 3] A58 - Bury, Heywood, Rochdale: 6.4 10.2 3 [coord 4] Whitefield, Heywood — 8.4 13.6 4 ...
Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Manchester city centre. [1] [3] In 2022, it was the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom in terms of passengers (the busiest outside of London) and the 19th-busiest airport in Europe in 2023, with 28.1 million passengers served.