Yeadon Way is a major road in

Blackpool Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately north of Liverpool and west of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. It is the main settlement in the Borough of Blackpool ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

, England. Along with the

A583 The A583 is a primary road from Preston to Blackpool in England, via Kirkham. It runs a distance of 17 miles (27.4 km), and was previously the main route into Blackpool until the construction of the M55 motorway. Route The A583 runs fr ...

Preston New Road, it is one of the busiest routes in and out of Blackpool to and from the southeast. It replaced the route of the central branch of the railway leading to and from

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, which was demolished in 1973. Yeadon Way was constructed during the following decade. The road, which carries an average of 12,000 vehicles daily, begins at a roundabout shared with the A5320 and Ashworth Road, a short distance west of the end of the M55, and continues due west through the industrial areas to the south of Blackpool town centre. It passes over Vicarage Lane and Hawes Side Lane (the B5261) and St Anne's Road. Beside Watson Road Park, it turns north as it heads towards Blackpool South railway station. It terminates to the east of Blackpool Central Car Park, at a roundabout shared with Parkinson Way and Seasiders Way, the latter named for

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, whose

Bloomfield Road Bloomfield Road is a association football, football stadium in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which has been the home of Blackpool F.C., Blackpool Football Club since 1901. It is the third stadium in the club's existence, the previous two be ...

stadium is located around to the north. In 2019, the road was closed between Hawes Side Lane and its originating roundabout, to permit the second phase of upgrade work begun in 2015. It reopened in May 2020. Yeadon Way is named for Harry Yeadon, a former

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

for

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