A6 road
| A6 road in the UK | |
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| Start of the street: | Luton |
| End of street: | Carlisle |
| Overall length: | 454 km (282.1 mi ) |
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| A6 near Market Harborough ("Great Glen bypass") (photo 2006) | |
The A6 road ( English for road A6 ) is the fourth longest road in Great Britain after the A1 road , the A38 road and the A30 road that bears a number.
course
The trunk road begins after its southern section coming from Barnet north of London was renamed the A1081 road in the 1950s , as the primary route in Luton north of London, where it branches off the M1 motorway . It leads north via Bedford , which is bypassed on a west bypass road, to Kettering and on via Market Harborough to Leicester . From there it runs through Loughborough and at Kegworth crossing the M1, Derby , Belper and Buxton to Stockport , where it crosses the Manchester M60 motorway ring road . After crossing Manchester, it leaves the city in a north-westerly direction, runs parallel to the M61 motorway to Preston and further essentially parallel to the M6 motorway to Kendal . There it becomes the primary route again for a while and then runs north through the Lake District parallel to the M6 via Penrith to Carlisle , in the center of which it ends and merges into the A7 road leading to Scotland .