A49 road

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	A49 road in the UK
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	Basic data
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Start of the street:	Ross-on-Wye
End of street:	Bamber Bridge at Preston
Overall length:	230 km (142.9 mi )
Countries :	England
	The A49 near Weaverham (photo 2005)

The A49 road ( English for road A49 ) is a 230 km long road, mostly designated as the primary route , which at Ross-on-Wye branches off the A40 road as the primary route first to the northwest and then from Hereford to the north through Shrewsbury , Warrington and Wigan to Bamber Bridge near Preston , where it ends on the A6 road .

course

Bridge over the Severn at Shrewsbury (photo 2010)

The A49 branches off the A40 road as the primary route at Ross-on-Wye not far from the southwest end of the M50 motorway and leads in a large right-hand bend to Hereford , where it crosses the A438 road . In a northerly direction it leads via Leominster , where the A44 road is crossed, and on via Ludlow to Shrewsbury , which it bypasses on a bypass, partly together with the A5 road, and crosses the Severn . North-east of Shrewsbury, the A53 road branches off to Newcastle-under-Lyme . The A49 approaches the Wales border at Whitchurch , which is bypassed to the west, and then, branching off the A41 road, follows the Llangollen Canal . It crosses the A534 road , the A51 road , the A54 road and the A556 road , passes Weaverham and crosses the A533 road , before it crosses the M56 motorway at its junction 10 . In Warrington the Manchester Ship Canal is crossed and the A56 road and A57 road are crossed. At junction 9, the road meets the M62 motorway and loses its character as a primary route. This is followed by the crossing of the A6 motorway at junction 23 and the densely populated area around Ashton-in-Makerfield in Greater Manchester . South of Wigan the road becomes the primary route again, bypasses Wigan at the intersection with the A577 road , gives the property as a primary route in Standish to the A5209 road and from then on runs parallel to the M6 until it comes to Bamber Bridge on the A6 road ends.