A65 road
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The A65 is a major road in England. It runs north west from Leeds in Yorkshire via Horsforth, Yeadon, Guiseley, Ilkley and Skipton, passes west of Settle, then continues through Ingleton and Kirkby Lonsdale before terminating at Kendal in Cumbria.
Bypasses
Listed from south to north, beginning at Leeds:
- The two-mile £5.5m dual-carriageway Burley-in-Wharfedale Bypass opened in April 1995.
- The two-mile £4m Addingham bypass opened in January 1991.
- The £2.8m Draughton Bypass opened in December 1991.
- The north section of the £16.4m Skipton Bypass opened in December 1981, which is part of the A59.
- North of Skipton, where the road meets the busy A629 from Bradford, there have been plans for a bypass around Gargrave, which is where the road crosses the Pennine Way.
- The four-mile £8.5m Settle & Giggleswick Bypass opened in December 1988.
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