A56 road

A56 shield
A56
Route information
Maintained by
Length71.46 mi (115.00 km)
Major junctions
West end A5268 Chester
Major intersections A41
M53
M56
A50
M60
A57(M)
A58
M66
M65
East end A59 Broughton
Location
CountryUnited Kingdom
Primary
destinations
Runcorn
Warrington
Altrincham
Manchester
Bury
Burnley
Road network
A55 A57

The A56 is a road in England which extends between the city of Chester in Cheshire and the village of Broughton in North Yorkshire. The road contains a mixture of single and dual carriageway sections, and traverses environments as diverse as the dense urban sprawl of inner city Manchester and the lightly populated region of rural east Lancashire. The road includes a short section of trunk road between the end of the M66 motorway near Ramsbottom and the M65 motorway west of Burnley.