A6107

Clough Lane, Rastrick

The A6107 is a short link road running more-or-less along the boundary between the Yorkshire towns of Huddersfield and Brighouse. Originally the eastern end of the B6114, it got its present number in the mid-1920s.

The road starts at traffic lights on the A643 in the south of Rastrick and heads east along Clough Lane, soon going under the M62. The road goes through the suburb of Flixby and then crosses the A641 at Bradley Bar Roundabout.

The road continues east, signposted Leeds, along Bradley Road. It remains built-up even though it actually passes between a wood and a golf course. Presently the road bears to the right to enter Bradley itself and the road soon ends at traffic lights at a sharply angled junction on the A62. The B6118 is also accessible from here.

History

Fixby to Bradley reconstruction

Bradley Road from Redwood Drive

Bradley Road, between Fixby and Bradley, was reconstructed to provide a bypass of Huddersfield on the coast to coast route from Hull to Liverpool. The then A6028 was used westwards of Fixby (later renumbered A643). After nearly two years work the road was declared open on 19 October 1932 by Alderman Rowland Mitchell, Chairman of Huddersfield Corporation Highways Committee. It was from the Borough Boundary at Fixby to the then tramcar terminus at Bradley.

Width of the road between fences was 80 feet and the carriageway was 40 feet wide. The foundation for the carriageway was 7 inch thick reinforced concrete, surfaced with a special tarmacadam for the greater part of the route and granite asphalt at the Fixby end. There was a roundabout at Bradley Bar. The island was equiped with signals and was brilliantly illuminated at night. Genuine lawn seed was used for the grass verges of 10 feet wide which covered an area of 5.5 acres. The total estimated cost of the scheme was £111,965 of which Road Fund grants contributed £54,077. The cost balance to Huddersfield Corporation was £57,888.