A62 road
Road in England
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The A62 road in Northern England runs between the cities of Leeds in West Yorkshire and Manchester in Greater Manchester covering a distance of 38.5 miles (62.0 km). It passes through Heckmondwike, Huddersfield, Oldham and Failsworth, the highest part of the motorway is in the Pennines
A665 in Manchester53.4849°N 2.2327°W
A58 in Leeds 53.7878°N 1.5709°W
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 Standedge seen from the top of nearby Pule Hill. Standedge cutting and Redbrook Reservoir can be seen | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Length | 38.6 mi[1] (62.1 km) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end | A665 in Manchester 53.4849°N 2.2327°W | |||
 M60 near Oldham   M62 / M621 / A650 near Birstall | ||||
| East end | A58 in Leeds 53.7878°N 1.5709°W | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United Kingdom | |||
| Counties | Greater Manchester West Yorkshire | |||
| Primary destinations | Oldham Huddersfield Liversedge | |||
| Road network | ||||
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Route
The A62 begins at a junction with the A58 road as Gelderd Road in Leeds. It runs through West Yorkshire, passing through Birstall, Heckmondwike, Liversedge, Huddersfield, Linthwaite, Slaithwaite, and Marsden. It crosses the Pennines at Standedge, and continues through Saddleworth and into Oldham. From there, the A62 runs into Manchester as Oldham Street and Oldham Road through Failsworth, ending at the Manchester Inner Ring Road.
History
It is paralleled at some distance by part of the M62 Trans-Pennine motorway. Before the M62 was built, the A62 was the main trans-Pennine road between Oldham and Huddersfield. The M62 is numbered after the A62 and now takes most of the long-distance traffic between Manchester and Leeds (2023 Average daily traffic figures: M62: 110,000 [2] A62: 5,885 [3].)
Junction list
| County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Greater Manchester | Manchester | 0.0 | 0.0 |      Manchester Inner Ring Road (A665) / M62 / A6 / A56 / A57 / A635 – Liverpool, Salford, Bury, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne | Western terminus |
| 1.2 | 1.9 | Queens Road / Hulme Hall Lane (A6010) – Cheetham Hill, Harpurhey, Collyhurst, Clayton, Beswick | Destinations signed westbound only | ||
| Failsworth | 3.0 | 4.8 |   A663 north (Broadway) to M62 / A627(M) / M60 – Leeds, Rochdale, Chadderton | To M62, M60 and Leeds signed eastbound only; southern terminus of A663 | |
| Failsworth– Oldham– Chadderton boundary | 4.4– 4.6 | 7.1– 7.4 |    M60 south / M67 / M56 – Ashton-under-Lyne, Sheffield A6104 to M60 north / A663 – Chadderton, Oldham South | M60 junction 22 | |
| Oldham | 5.8 | 9.3 |   A6048 north (Featherstall Road South) to A671 – Royton | No access from A62 west to A6048; southern terminus of A6048 | |
| 6.2 | 10.0 |  A669 (A627 north) / Manchester Street to A627(M) – Town centre, Rochdale, Chadderton | To A669 and Chadderton signed eastbound only; western terminus of A627 / A669 concurrency | ||
| 6.3– 6.7 | 10.1– 10.8 |  A627 south – Town centre, Ashton-under-Lyne | Junction; no eastbound entrance; eastern terminus of A627 concurrency | ||
| 7.2 | 11.6 | A669 east / A635 – Lees, Holmfirth, Stalybridge | Westbound access via B6194; Stalybridge signed westbound only | ||
| 7.8 | 12.6 |  A672 northeast (Ripponden Road) to M62 – Halifax, Denshaw, Saddleworth | Saddleworth signed westbound only; southwestern terminus of A672 | ||
| Delph | 11.5 | 18.5 |   A6052 (The Sound / Delph New Road) to A670 – Denshaw, Delph, Dobcross, Uppermill | Brief concurrency | |
| Diggle | 13.3 | 21.4 | A670 south (Standedge Road) – Uppermill, Diggle, Saddleworth | Saddleworth signed westbound only; northern terminus of A670 | |
| West Yorkshire | Huddersfield | 24.3 | 39.1 |     A629 south to M1 south / A616 / A6024 – Holmfirth, Wakefield, Sheffield, Meltham | A629, To M1, Wakefield and Sheffield signed northbound only, To A6024 and Meltham southbound only; southern terminus of A629 concurrency |
| 24.5 | 39.4 |  A640 west (Trinity Street) to M62 west – Rochdale | Eastern terminus of A640 | ||
| 24.6– 24.8 | 39.6– 39.9 | A629 north to M62 east – Halifax | Junction; eastern terminus of A629 concurrency | ||
| 25.1 | 40.4 |  A641 north – Brighouse, Bradford | Southern terminus of A641 | ||
| 25.2 | 40.6 |   A62 to M1 south / A642 / A629 – Oldham, Wakefield, Sheffield, Kingsgate | To M1, A642, A629, Oldham, Wakefield and Sheffield signed westbound only, Kingsgate eastbound only | ||
| Bradley | 28.1 | 45.2 |  A6107 west (Bradley Road) to M62 / A640 / B6118 – Rochdale, Elland | To M62, B6118 and Elland signed westbound only; eastern terminus of A6107 | |
| Calderdale– Mirfield boundary | 28.5 | 45.9 |  A644 northwest (Wakefield Road) to M62 – Brighouse | Western terminus of A644 concurrency | |
| Mirfield | 28.8 | 46.3 | A644 southeast (Huddersfield Road) – Mirfield, Ravensthorpe | Ravensthorpe signed eastbound only; eastern terminus of A644 concurrency | |
| Liversedge | 31.2 | 50.2 |   A649 (Halifax Road / Wakefield Road) to A638 – Halifax, Batley, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike | To A638, Batley, Dewsbury and H'wike signed eastbound only | |
| 31.3 | 50.4 | A638 (Bradford Road / Frost Hill) – Dewsbury, Bradford, Cleckheaton, Heckmondwike | A638, Dewsbury, Bradford and H'wike signed westbound only | ||
| Heckmondwike | 31.8 | 51.2 |  A651 north (Gomersal Road) / B6117 (New North Road) to A650 – Bradford, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Gomersal | Southern terminus of A651 | |
| Birstall | 33.0 | 53.1 |  A652 (Bradford Road) to A651 – Bradford, Batley, Dewsbury | ||
| 33.2 | 53.4 |  A643 (Nelson Street / Leeds Road) – Birstall, Morley | |||
| Birstall– Gildersome boundary | 34.5– 34.9 | 55.5– 56.2 | M62 to M1 – Halifax, Manchester, Hull, Pontefract A650 (Wakefield Road) – Bradford, Wakefield, Morley | M62 junction 27 | |
| Leeds | 37.7 | 60.7 |    A6110 (Leeds Outer Ring Road) / M621 / M62 / M1 / A647 / A653 – Bradford, Dewsbury, Huddersfield | Huddersfield signed westbound only | |
| 38.6 | 62.1 |    A58 (Whitehall Road) to M621 / M62 / M1 / A58(M) / A61 / A64 – City centre, Halifax, Wortley, Wetherby, Harrogate, York | Eastern terminus | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
