A640 Road

The A640 is a road in

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which runs between

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. In the United Kingdom 2021 Census, 2021 Census, the town had a population of 111,261, compared to 223,773 for the wid ...

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and

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confl ...

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. The road's most westbound point as on the edge of

town centre, at the junction of Drake Street and Manchester Road ( A58). From here, the road runs eastward through: *

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* Belfield * Firgrove *

Milnrow Milnrow is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, and forms a continuous urban area with Rochdale. It is east of Rochdale town centre, ...

Newhey Newhey (archaically New Hey) is a village in the town of Milnrow in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale,Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council (N.D.), p. 32. in Greater Manchester, England. It lies at the foot of the South Pennines, by Junc ...

* Ogden *

Denshaw Denshaw is a village in the civil parish of Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies by the source of the River Tame, high amongst the Pennines above the village of Delph, northeast of Oldham, ...

* Buckstones * Deanhead *

Scammonden Scammonden or Dean Head was a village close to Huddersfield, in the Dean Head Valley, England, before the valley was flooded to create Scammonden Reservoir in the 1960s. The M62 motorway crosses the dam wall and then passes through a cutting to ...

Outlane Outlane is a village in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, situated approximately south-west of Elland, north-west of Huddersfield and south of Halifax. The village is situated next to the M62 motorway near Junction 23 and straddles the K ...

(

Salendine Nook Salendine Nook is an area of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. It is to the north-west of central Huddersfield, and is bordered to the north-east by Laund Hill, Weather Hill and Low Hill and to the south-west by the natural scar of Long ...

, Oakes and

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) The road eastbound point is at the Trinity Street junction with the A62 at Huddersfield's town centre ring road (Castlegate). The A640 links both Rochdale and Huddersfield with the

M62 Motorway The M62 is a west–east Pennines, trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Kingston upon Hull, Hull via Manchester, Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield; of the route Concurrency (road), is shared with the M60 motorway, ...

with the road meeting the Motorway's junction 21 (Milnrow for Rochdale) and junction 23 (Outlane for Huddersfield). The road is often closed during periods of snow due to its remote nature over the Pennine hills. The road is known as New Hey Road between Marsh, in Huddersfield and the

boundary. In

, the A640 road names include Huddersfield Road, Rochdale Road and Milnrow Road. Roads in England Roads in Yorkshire Roads in Greater Manchester Transport in West Yorkshire Transport in Huddersfield Kirklees Colne Valley {{England-road-stub