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A65 road

Coordinates:53°59′34″N2°09′53″W / 53.99276°N 2.16482°W /53.99276; -2.16482
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Road in England

A65 shield
A65
Pair of green trunk road signs, pointing left to Skipton and Kendal and right to Leeds and Otley on the A65, with other destinations indicated on other roads
Route information
Length70 mi (110 km)
Major junctions
Southeast endA58
atLeeds
Major intersectionsA59

A590

(M6)
Northwest endA6 at
Kendal
Location
CountryUnited Kingdom
Primary
destinations
Road network
←A64→A66

TheA65[1] is a majorroad inEngland. It runs north west fromLeeds inWest Yorkshire viaKirkstall,Horsforth,Yeadon,Guiseley,Ilkley andSkipton, west ofSettle,Ingleton andKirkby Lonsdale before terminating atKendal inCumbria.

Bypasses

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The Kirkstall Road dual carriageway near the end of the A65 in Leeds
The A65 just north ofAddingham, near Skipton

Listed from south to north, beginning at Leeds:

  • The 2-mile (3.2 km) £5.5 million dual-carriagewayBurley in Wharfedale Bypass opened in April 1995.
  • The 2-mile (3.2 km) £4 millionAddingham bypass opened in January 1991.
  • The £2.8 million Draughton Bypass opened in December 1991.
  • The north section of the £16.4 million Skipton Bypass opened in December 1981, which is part of theA59.
  • North of Skipton, where the road meets the busy A629 fromBradford, there have been plans for a bypass aroundGargrave, which is where the road crosses thePennine Way.
  • The 4-mile (6.4 km) £8.5 millionSettle &Giggleswick Bypass opened in December 1988.
  • The 1-mile (1.6 km)Clapham bypass is the earliest of these bypasses.[2]The National Archives have a file "West Riding CC: Clapham Bypass (A65); consideration of proposals" covering 1948–1969.[3]

Road safety

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The A65 betweenLong Preston and junction 36 of theM6 motorway has a poor safety record, according toEuroRAP being listed as amedium-high risk road. This 26-mile (42 km) stretch of single carriageway road suffered 48 fatal or serious injury accidents between 2002 and 2004. The road features in the list of highest risk roads in Britain (excluding motorcycle accidents).[4] The section between Leeds and Long Preston is listed as being alow-medium risk road.[5]

Junctions (A/B roads)

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This section is missing a table that represents a list of exits or junctions.
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References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related toA65 road (England).
  1. ^Google map of A65
  2. ^On Ordnance Survey 1:25000 map The Three Peaks 1982
  3. ^"Record for: West Riding CC: Clapham Bypass (A65); consideration of proposals".The National Archives. Retrieved18 May 2013.
  4. ^EuroRAP 2006: British Results
  5. ^Collins big road atlas 2019. Glasgow: Collins Bartholomew. 2018. p. xiii.ISBN 978-0-00-827268-5.
A roads in Zone 6 of theGreat Britain road numbering scheme

53°59′34″N2°09′53″W / 53.99276°N 2.16482°W /53.99276; -2.16482

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