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Aug 2021
Motorists face significant diversions for five weeks from Monday due the closure of a busy road near Harrogate.
North Yorkshire County Council will close the B6161 to carry out work on Pot Bridge in Beckwithshaw. The work will strengthen the arch of the bridge and repair the parapet and surrounding walls.
It means motorists will incur eight-mile diversions via Beckwithshaw, Norwood and the A59, adding about 15 minutes to their journeys.
Cllr Stanley Lumley, member for the Pateley Bridge division on the county council and chair of the transport committee, said:
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