M62 motorway facts for kids

Quick facts for kids M62 motorway
Lancashire-Yorkshire Motorway
Looking east at junction 22, the highest point on the English motorway network, from the Pennine Way
Route information
Part of E20 and E22
Maintained by Highways England Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council Liverpool City Council
Length	107 mi (172 km) 7 miles (11 km) are part of the M60 motorway
History	Opened: 1960 Completed: 1976
Major junctions
West end	Knotty Ash
	J6 → M57 motorway J10 → M6 motorway / J12 → M60 motorway/M602 motorway / J18 → M60 motorway/M66 motorway J20 → A627(M) motorway J26 → M606 motorway J27 → M621 motorway J29 → M1 motorway J32a → A1(M) motorway J35 → M18 motorway
East end	North Cave
Location
Counties:	Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire
Primary destinations:	Liverpool Huyton Warrington Manchester Oldham Rochdale Huddersfield Halifax Bradford Leeds Wakefield Pontefract Goole
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones ← M61 M65 →

The M62 is a motorway in Northern England. It connects Liverpool and Manchester with Leeds and Hull. It is about 107 miles (172 km) long. Around seven miles of the motorway is shared with the M60.

Junctions

M62 motorway junctions
mile	km	Westbound exits (B Carriageway)	Junction	Eastbound exits (A Carriageway)
		No access (on-slip only)		Knotty Ash, Childwall, Broadgreen , A5080 Non-motorway traffic
		End of motorway Road continues as A5080 towards Liverpool		Start of motorway
		Knotty Ash, Huyton A5080	J5	Huyton A5080
7.9	12.7	Liverpool (S) & A5300, Huyton A5080 Southport M57	J6	Prescot M57, Runcorn, M56 A5300
10.2	16.5	Widnes A557, Prescot A57, St. Helens A570	J7	St. Helens A570, Warrington A57, Widnes A557
		Entering Merseyside		Entering Cheshire
14.5	23.3	Warrington (West) (A574) Burtonwood services	J8 Services	Warrington (West) (A574) Burtonwood services
16.6	26.7	Warrington, Newton A49	J9	Warrington (Central), Newton A49
				Start of variable speed limit
18.1	29.1	Birmingham, Chester (M56) M6(S) Preston M6(N)	J10	Preston M6(N) Birmingham, Manchester (S) & M6(S)
20.7	33.4	Warrington (East), Birchwood A574	J11	Warrington (East), Birchwood A574
				End of variable speed limit
		Entering Cheshire		Entering Greater Manchester
26.9	43.3	End of variable speed limit	J12	Manchester M60(S&E) Manchester City Centre, Salford M602
		Start of motorway		Start of variable speed limit
		Concurrency with M60
35.1	56.5	Ring Road (E & S), Manchester (E & C), Manchester M60(E) Blackburn, Bury M66	J18	Start of motorway
37.8	60.9	Birch services	Services	Birch services
40.1	64.5	Middleton, Heywood A6046	J19	Middleton, Heywood A6046
42.5	68.4	Start of variable speed limit	J20	Rochdale, Oldham A627(M)
		Rochdale, Oldham A627(M)		End of variable speed limit
43.7	70.3	Milnrow, Shaw (A640)	J21	Milnrow, Shaw (A640)
		Rakewood Viaduct
		Entering Greater Manchester		Entering West Yorkshire
46.8	75.4	Saddleworth A672	J22	Ripponden, Saddleworth A672, Sowerby Bridge (A58)
54.0	86.9	No access (on-slip only)	J23	Huddersfield (West) A640
55.5	89.4	Huddersfield, Halifax A629	J24	Huddersfield, Halifax A629
59.1	95.2	End of variable speed limit	J25	Brighouse, Dewsbury A644
		Huddersfield (A62), Brighouse A644		Start of variable speed limit
60.6	97.7	Hartshead Moor services	Services	Hartshead Moor services
62.5	100.7	Halifax A58 Bradford M606	J26	Cleckheaton A638 Bradford, Leeds Bradford M606
66.5	107.1	Batley A62	J27	Batley A62 Leeds M621
69.7	112.2	Leeds, Leeds/Bradford , Dewsbury A653	J28	Dewsbury A653
72.3	116.5	The SOUTH M1(S) Leeds (M621) M1(N)	J29	The NORTH, Leeds M1(N) The SOUTH, Wakefield M1(S)
		Start of variable speed limit	J30	Rothwell, Wakefield A642
		Wakefield, Rothwell A642		End of variable speed limit
77.7	125.2	Normanton, Castleford A655	J31	Castleford, Normanton A655
80.5	129.7	Pontefract, Castleford A639	J32	Pontefract, Castleford A639
		The NORTH, Wetherby A1(M)	J32A	The NORTH, The SOUTH A1(M)
84.7	136.4	The SOUTH A1, Pontefract A645 Ferrybridge services	J33 Services	Ferrybridge A162 Ferrybridge services
		Entering West Yorkshire		Entering North Yorkshire
		Selby, Doncaster A19	J34	Selby, Doncaster A19
		Entering North Yorkshire		Entering East Riding of Yorkshire
		The SOUTH, Doncaster M18, Scunthorpe, Humberside , Doncaster Sheffield (M180)	J35	The SOUTH M18, Scunthorpe, Humberside , Doncaster Sheffield (M180)
		Goole A614	J36	Goole A614
		Ouse Bridge
		Howden A614, Selby (A63)	J37	Bridlington, York, Howden A614
		Start of motorway	J38	North Cave, Gilberdyke
		Newport B1230 Non-motorway traffic		End of motorway Road continues as A63 towards Hull
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Coordinates

Images for kids

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  Construction starting in Milnrow, 1968

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  M62 Summit sign

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  Stationary traffic at Lofthouse Interchange

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  The Ouse Bridge, from the floodplain adjacent to the river

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  Junction 32a during construction in September 2005

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  Stott Hall Farm, viewed from moorland above westbound carriageway

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  M62 passes Scammonden Water in West Yorkshire