B6444 (Wakefield)

This article is about the earlier B6444 in Wakefield.
For the present B6444 near Newton Aycliffe in Durham, see B6444.

The now-unclassified former B6444 Market Street

The B6444 was a short link road on the edge of Wakefield city centre. It was originally the northern end of the A636 but gained its number in the 1950s when some of the roads in the city centre were downgraded. The road was short-lived, being declassified in the 1970s.

The road started at what now became the northern end of the A636, where it met the A638 Ings Road. Our road then headed north along Denby Dale Road. It split a block further north owing to a one-way system. The road ahead, Market Street, was one-way southbound, whilst northbound traffic bore left into George Street then right into Smyth Street. Both roads ended on the A642 Westgate.