A6195 road

A6195
A6195
Route information
Length	10 mi (16 km)
Major junctions
From	Tankersley, South Yorkshire
	M1, J36, (Sheffield, Barnsley A61, Chapeltown, Sheffield A6135)
To	Shafton
Location
Country	Primary; destinations
Road network
	Roads in the United Kingdom; Motorways; A and B road zones;

The A6195 road runs through the Dearne Valley in South Yorkshire, England.

History

The road is mainly newly constructed, being built to regenerate the former coal-mining areas of Barnsley in the late 1990s. It has many at-grade roundabouts, and no grade-separated junctions. It is not so much a through-route, but for local access. A lot of the road, often at junctions, looks half-finished. Most of it looks like a spine access road on a typical industrial estate.

The area was given Enterprise Zone status in the mid-1990s.

Construction

The Dearne Towns Link Road (the dual-carriageway section) was officially opened on Monday 12 October 1998 by Richard Caborn, Minister for the Environment. It was built by AMEC Civil Engineering Ltd and VHE. It cost £30m. The route was planned by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.

Work started on the Little Houghton and Grimethorpe section in mid-2002. The A628 Shafton bypass opened on 30 October 2003.^[1]

Route

Dual-carriageway

This section is known as the Dearne Link or the Dearne Towns Link Road.^[2] The dual-carriageway section consisted of Stage 1 and Stage 2A/B.

The route starts as a dual-carriageway at junction 36 (Tankersley Interchange) of the

A633 at the Wath Road Roundabout, where the road becomes single-carriageway; nearby is Sematic Group (lift doors) and Cranswick Convenience Foods on the Valley Park Industrial Estate, and the Meadows Brewers Fayre^[3] and Barnsley Dearne Valley Premier Inn

. The Dearne Valley Parkway, the dual-carriageway from the M1, finishes here.

Single-carriageway

This section is known as the Wath Link, Dearne Valley Coalfields Link Road or Barnsley Coalfields Link Road.[4]^[5]

At Dearne Ings, the Broomhill Roundabout meets the A633 (to the south-east and eventually to the site of the former

ASOS.com national distribution centre (NDC) built on a former pit, near a wind farm to the north. The Grimethorpe Colliery Roundabout at the southern end of Grimethorpe, at an industrial park where Carlton Brick have their Carlton Main Brickworks to the east and Symphony Group make furniture and kitchens in a large factory to the west. The Leggett & Platt furniture factory is to the east of the Grimethorpe bypass. The Ferry Moor Roundabout, to the north, gives access to Grimethorpe, to the east, and the Sash UK site. In the south of Shafton, it meets the A628 at the Engine Lane Roundabout, with access to Outwood Academy Shafton

(former Shafton Advanced Learning Centre) on the Shafton Two Gates Bypass.

References

External links

SABRE Roads

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[1] Shafton bypass

[2] VHE Construction

[3] Meadows

[4] VHE

[5] Barnsley Coalfield Rural Transport

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v t e A roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain road numbering scheme
	A6 A60 A61 A62 A63 A64 A65 A66 A67 A68 A69
	A602 A605 A606 A607 A610 A612 A614 A616 A617 A624 A625 A626 A628 A629 A630 A631 A632 A635 A636 A638 A640 A642 A643 A647 A650 A657 A658 A660 A661 A666 A671 A678 A684 A685 A686 A688 A689 A690 A695 A696 A697
	A6003 A6023 A6030 A6055 A6079 A6102 A6105 A6108 A6121 A6135 A6136 A6177 A6178 A6182 A6187
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