40-600: A63 or A-63 may refer to: A63 road , a road in England connecting Leeds and Hull A63 motorway (France) , a road connecting Bordeaux and the border with Spain A63 motorway (Germany) , a road connecting Mainz and Kaiserslautern A63 motorway (Spain) , a road connecting Oviedo and Canero Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code for the Benoni Defense [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
80-401: A Brittonic foundation. The existing church, a Grade I listed building , contains features dating from c.1120: "C12 nave and north aisle, C13 chancel with C14 south aisle and extension to north aisle, C15 south aisle chapel, and later additions and alterations including C16 clerestory, north aisle windows and heightening of tower. East end restored in 1857 by Anthony Salvin and C19 vestry". It
120-808: A roundabout, and crosses the River Ouse on the River Ouse swing bridge and the Selby-Hull railway . The short section around Barlby follows what was the old East Coast Main Line railway before the Selby Diversion opened in the early 1980s. An alternative route eastwards from the Selby bypass, to the M62, is the A1041 via Camblesforth , then the A645 past Drax power station . The route out to Hull
160-555: A roundabout. The route follows the six-mile £44 million Selby Bypass and £5 million Barlby Bypass, the latter of which is shared with the north–south A19 , although the A19 still passes through Selby itself. On the bypass the road passes Selby Golf Club, meets the A19 at a roundabout at Brayton , crosses the Selby Canal , crosses the Doncaster-Selby railway , meets the A1041 at
200-768: Is a grade-separated left turn for the B1222 (for Sherburn-in-Elmet ). This dual-carriageway section of the former A1, follows the Leeds – North Yorkshire boundary ( Ledsham and South Milford ), and was built as part of the Brotherton - Micklefield scheme in November 1964 by Dowsett Engineering Construction. At the Selby Fork junction south of the Selby Fork Hotel, the A1246 continues southwards along
240-573: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages A63 road The A63 is a major road in Yorkshire , England between Leeds and Kingston upon Hull . A section between North Cave and Hull forms the eastward continuation of the M62 motorway and is part of the unsigned Euroroute E20 . The route from Leeds out to Selby runs roughly parallel, and between 0.6 and 2.0 miles (0.97 and 3.22 km) south of
280-530: Is now the Leeds conurbation, the precise boundaries of which are not known, but are thought to have been located at bodies of water, such as the Ouse , Aire and Wharfe rivers. Sherburn is situated on a low hill of Permian limestone jutting out into the valley of the River Ouse, so the name may refer to the clarity of the water on the hill compared with the muddy streams on the alluvial plain below. This limestone ridge
320-612: Is on the westbound side, west of the Melton interchange. The Yorkshire Wolds Way crosses at this point. The North Ferriby bypass and North Ferriby – Hessle sections opened in 1961. Martin Cowley Ltd of Clay Cross , in Derbyshire, was given the contract for the two-mile bypass, for £281,851 in August 1959, to take 20 months from October 1959; it was opened on Friday 25 August 1961. The former route
360-746: Is partly the B1231 (for Swanland ). The road meets the A15 at a grade-separated junction. The former route, before the South Docks Road improvement, followed the current A1105 into Hull. The road continues through the Humber Bridge Country Park, across the Hull-Selby railway , and under the Humber Bridge . The Humber Bridge was designed to take some of Hull's traffic southwards, but the vast majority takes
400-666: Is shadowed by the Selby-Hull railway line. It leaves at the Barlby Roundabout (completed May 2013; formerly a dangerous road junction) to the right, passing Osgodby then over the railway line and passes Hemingbrough . A planned bypass at Osgodby (2002) was cancelled due to increases in prices of land. It crosses the River Derwent and enters the East Riding of Yorkshire . It passes through Newsholme before bypassing Howden to
440-403: Is still an important source of clear water, for example for the brewing industry at Tadcaster six miles to the north. The Roman road connecting Castleford with Tadcaster and York ran along this ridge, and the current Low Street/Finkle Hill north–south route through the town marks its line, but little evidence of Roman settlement has been found. An earthwork adjoining All Saints' Church
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#1732844557896480-641: Is subject to a 40 mph speed limit, and incorporates peak-time HOV lanes . At the end of this dual carriageway section, the route meets the M1 , and the road continues north along the motorway for one junction then resumes as the A63. From junction 46 of the M1, the Thorpe Park roundabout, the route continues east, meeting the A642 at Garforth. There is a turning for Lidgett Lane (B6137) to
520-651: Is the site of Hall Garth, sometimes erroneously called 'Athelstan's Palace', a high-status dwelling given (along with the manor of Cawood ) by King Athelstan to the Archbishops of York to mark his victory over the combined Scots/Norse forces at Brunanburh in 937. Hall Garth cannot be dated back with certainty to the Kingdom of Elmet prior to its absorption into the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in 616/7 (see Misplaced Pages entry for Elmet) and may have been an Anglo-Saxon rather than
560-651: The Emley Moor TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio York on 103.7 FM, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire (formerly Minister FM ) on 104.7 FM, YO1 Radio on 90.0 FM, Heart Yorkshire on 106.2 FM and Capital Yorkshire on 105.1 FM. The town is served by the local newspapers, The York Press and Wetherby News . Sherburn in Elmet has two primary Schools and one secondary school . Its primary schools are Sherburn Hungate Primary School and Athelstan Primary School. Its secondary school
600-690: The South Docks Road ). There is a junction with Priory Way , and at Gipsyville it meets the A1166 at a grade-separated roundabout near St Andrew's Quay. Near the Albert Dock, there is a fly-over where it rejoins the former Hessle Road next to the Smith & Nephew factory to the south. The A63 meets the A1079 (for central Hull) at a junction, beyond which the road is named Castle Street . The Castle Street section of
640-500: The A1033 ( Hedon Road ). It is prone to congestion due to traffic from the Port of Hull and vehicles exiting Victoria Dock heading into the city centre. A proposal to divert the road along a causeway between Hessle and Hull Docks was unveiled in 2019. The £1.5 billion project would have a dual carriageway road veering into the estuary and take all of the through traffic from the A63 away from
680-492: The A63 westwards, towards the M18 . The road passes on the south side of Hessle , next to Hessle railway station , and follows the Hull to Selby railway line closely on the southern side as far as the outskirts of Hull near the western docks. The section from Hessle into Kingston upon Hull is named Clive Sullivan Way , after the rugby league footballer Clive Sullivan , (originally titled
720-513: The B1230 leads to North Cave (and in the direction of Beverley ) along the former A63. The BP Triangle North Cave is alongside the junction. There is the Beacon Service Area on the eastbound side, with a Travelodge "Hull South Cave" and Shell Beacon , situated just south of Everthorpe and Wolds prisons. The road skirts the southern edge of South Cave, and near Ellerker it crosses
760-614: The M62 (its terminus) to the A1034 junction near South Cave was single carriageway before the M62 opened in May 1976. The section was constructed as the dualling of the Caves Bypass and opened when the last eastern section of the M62 opened, completing the dual carriageway link to the outskirts of Hull. The £2 million contract was given to Clugston, and work started in February 1975. From junction 38,
800-706: The Parliamentarian garrison now based in the town. However, another Parliamentarian force, under Colonel Copley, counterattacked and routed the Royalists. Thus was defeated the last significant Royalist force in the North during the First English Civil War . Ernest Popplewell, Baron Popplewell , CBE (10 December 1899 – 11 August 1977). Ernest was conferred the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life, by
840-472: The centre of Hull. Sherburn-in-Elmet Sherburn in Elmet (pronounced / ˈ ʃ ɜːr b ər n ɪ n ˈ ɛ l m ɪ t / SHUR -bər-nin- EL -mit ) is a town and civil parish in the district and county of North Yorkshire , England. It is to the west of Selby and south of Tadcaster . It was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It is one of three placenames associated with
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#1732844557896880-711: The church tower, which was not then as tall as it is today. During the English Civil War , the town was garrisoned by the Royalists for King Charles I ; it was close to their stronghold at Selby and the northern capital of York , and commanded the approaches from both the south and the west. In 1645, the Parliamentarians attacked Sherburn and defeated the garrison. On 15 October 1645 the Battle of Sherburn-in-Elmet took place. A Royalist force commanded by Lord Digby and Sir Marmaduke Langdale attacked and initially defeated
920-487: The city centre. Improvement schemes for the road had been planned since the 1980s, but were subject to funding delays. Consultation on the design of a solution began 2009. Split level junctions including passing under or over the A63 were considered for the bottleneck at the Mytongate roundabout, with additional congestion easing measures, and pedestrian bridges. Other options included an extended viaduct and tunnel options –
960-491: The consultation showed a preference for an underground solution. In March 2010 the Highways Agency established a preferred scheme – the A63 would be lowered 23-foot (7 m) at the Mytongate bottleneck, and the north south connecting roads raised slightly (3.3-foot (1 m)), creating a split level junction; additionally the eastbound carriageway would be widened, and pedestrian crossings created. If funded, construction
1000-664: The former A1, and the road enters the former district of Selby , in North Yorkshire . It crosses the A1(M) at junction 42 at South Milford. It meets the A162 at a roundabout, crosses a railway, and passes through Monk Fryston . It follows Causeway Dike and passes through Hambleton , where to the east it crosses the Selby Diversion of the East Coast Main Line , and the A1238 (former A63) at
1040-592: The former route (and Ermine Street from Brough , then known as Petuaria , to York ) at the A1034 junction. The 2.5 miles (4 km) Elloughton bypass was built in October 1971, from the A1034 to the Welton/Brough junction passing Brantingham to the west. It replaced the former road through Elloughton and Brough. This section skirts the southern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds . The £1,629,850 contract for 3.25 miles
1080-866: The left, next to Garforth Academy , with the Shell garage on the right. It crosses the Leeds Country Way (a former railway), and there is the B6137 to the right for Kippax . On the Garforth/Micklefield parish boundary is a roundabout with the A656 Roman Ridge . At the Boot and Shoe junction, with the former A1, there is the Esso Boot & Shoe Service Station , and the Best Western Milford Hotel . There
1120-691: The name, style and title of Baron Popplewell, of Sherburn-in-Elmet in the West Riding of the County of York. The village is served by Sherburn-in-Elmet railway station with services to York railway station , Hull Paragon Interchange and Sheffield railway station , with a second station ( South Milford railway station ) in nearby South Milford providing services to Leeds and Hull . Arriva Yorkshire buses go to Leeds, Tadcaster and Selby . Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire . Television signals are received from
1160-417: The post-Roman kingdom of Elmet , the others being Barwick-in-Elmet and Scholes-in-Elmet . At the 2011 census, it had a population of 6,657. The name derives from Old English "scir" (bright, pure) and "burn" (bourne, stream, spring). The earliest record of the name ('Scyreburnan') dates from 963. Elmet refers to a little-understood post-Roman, Brittonic (non-Anglo-Saxon) kingdom in the area around what
1200-420: The road (2011) had significant air pollution problems ( NO 2 levels), with over 55,000 vehicles per day, and had heavy congestion, having been at full capacity for around a decade; much of the traffic is heavy goods vehicles originating as a result of Ro-Ro activity at Hull Docks . The road section also was experiencing high accident levels, as well as forming a barrier to local north–south movement within
1240-751: The route of the Leeds and Selby Railway . The route begins just east of Leeds city centre at a junction with the A61 , although, before its February 2009 realignment along the new East Leeds Link Road, it began at a junction with the A64 in the Halton Moor area of the city (now signed as the B6159). The road passes through the Knowsthorpe and Cross Green areas, as Pontefract Lane ; despite being of dual carriageway standard, this stretch
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1280-447: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A63&oldid=709321885 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1320-566: The ward of Drypool is known as Roger Millward Way. It was originally named Garrison Road but the name was changed to Roger Millward Way in memory of the deceased rugby player in 2018. Within Drypool there is a northwards junction with the A1165 (Great Union Street), and southwards junction connecting the Victoria Dock Village housing estate at the same point. The road terminates at a junction for
1360-407: The west, as Barnhill Lane and Boothferry Road, where it meets the A614 at a roundabout. Access to the M62 is via junction 37 to the south, along the A614. East of Howden, the A63 has been downgraded and is now the B1230 . The B1230 carries non-motorway traffic over the M62 motorway and onwards into Gilberdyke . When the B1230 was the A63, a three-mile section, through Gilberdyke and Newport ,
1400-471: The £156,947 contract in August 1961 for the two-mile section. At the Elloughton-cum-Brough -Welton parish boundary, there is a grade-separated junction for Brough to the south and Welton to the north. The road passes on the south side of South Hunsley School (with a leisure centre ) at Melton , part of the parish of Welton . A new grade separated junction was constructed east of Melton near North Ferriby in 2006/7. The Shell Grand Dale filling station
1440-449: Was also constructed further east than the junction between the Princes Quay Shopping Centre and Hull Marina which allows for safe pedestrian crossing and fewer traffic lights, as well as greater connection between the main city centre area to the upmarket Humber Street area of the city centre. It crosses the River Hull at Myton Swing Bridge , near the River Hull tidal surge barrier and The Deep . The stretch over Myton Bridge and within
1480-475: Was built on the site of an earlier Anglo-Saxon church. The town was part of the wapentake of Barkston Ash in the West Riding of Yorkshire . The Battle of Towton was fought nearby in 1461 and local legend tells that King Edward IV , who won the battle, used the church tower as a point for surveying the battle lines. In fact the battle, the main action of which occurred between 3–4 miles (4.8–6.4 km) away, could not have been seen with any clarity from
1520-399: Was dual carriageway. Where the B1230 crosses the M62 motorway east of Newport, the M62 finishes and the A63 restarts. Before the last eastern section of the M62 was built, the motorway terminated at a temporary junction at Balkholme . Before the M62 opened, the single carriageway A63 was Hull's main route to the South of England , causing many bottlenecks . The section from junction 38 of
1560-408: Was given on 10 October 1969 to Gleeson Civil Engineering; the site office was on Brantingham Road; the eastbound carriageway opened on Sunday 21 March 1971; part of the dual section opened on Monday 13 September 1971; the bypass fully opened on Friday 29 October 1971. The Welton / Brough – North Ferriby section opened in the late summer of 1963. Martin Cowley Ltd, of Derbyshire, was given
1600-410: Was planned to begin in 2016 for completion in 2019. The cost has been estimated at between £150 and £200 million. In May 2012 the design and consultation work was initiated. In June 2013 the government announced the go ahead for a £160 million improvement to the road after 2015. From 2021, work began on Mytongate, and is predicted to be finished in 2025. A bridge called Murdoch's Connection
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