- A62 road
UK road routebox
road= A62
length-mi= 41
length-km= 66
direction= East-West
start=Leeds
destinations=Huddersfield Oldham
end=Manchester
construction-date=
completion-date=
junctions= The A62 is a majorroad inEngland that runs between the two major cities ofManchester andLeeds .The road is approximately 40 miles (65 km) long. It runs north east from Manchester through
Failsworth andOldham before crossing thePennines atStandedge intoWest Yorkshire . Continuing through Marsden,Slaithwaite ,Linthwaite ,Huddersfield ,Liversedge and Birstall. It terminates just short of Leeds city centre at its junction with theA58 road .It is paralleled by part of the M62 Trans-Pennine motorway. The M62 is numbered after the A62 and now takes most of the long-distance traffic between Manchester and Leeds.
External links
* [http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/roadlists/f99/62.shtml SABRE page on the A62]
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