Preston New Road (A584) looking East
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Preston New Road (A584) looking East by David Dixon as part of the Geograph project.
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Preston New Road (A584) looking East
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 22 Apr 2019
Although the A584 is not usually a particularly busy road (except in peak summer seasons and when the Blackpool Illuminations are on), the section from Clifton to Freckleton is a wide dual carriageway with several laybys; this section has a wide, tree-lined central reservation (created when it was converted to dual carriageway in the 1960s). Until fairly recently, the road had a 70 mph speed limit as far as the eastern edge of Freckleton but is now a 50 mph limit from the start of the road until the western end of the 1990s Freckleton Bypass.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.758482
Longitude
-2.836764