A56 road

A56
A56
Route information
	Maintained by List Bury Metropolitan Borough Council; Cheshire East Council; Cheshire West and Chester Council; Halton Borough Council; National Highways; Lancashire County Council; Manchester City Council; North Yorkshire Council; Salford City Council; Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council; Warrington Borough Council ;
Length	71.46 mi (115.00 km)
Major junctions
West end	A5268 Chester
	A41; M53; M56; A50; M60; A57(M); A58; M66; M65
East end	A59 Broughton
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Primary; destinations	Runcorn; Warrington; Altrincham; Manchester; Bury; Burnley
Road network
	Roads in the United Kingdom; Motorways; A and B road zones;

The A56 is a road in England which extends between the city of Chester in Cheshire and the village of Broughton in North Yorkshire. The road contains a mixture of single and dual carriageway sections, and traverses environments as diverse as the dense urban sprawl of inner city Manchester and the lightly populated region of rural east Lancashire. The road includes a short section of trunk road between the end of the M66 motorway near Ramsbottom and the M65 motorway west of Burnley.