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| Major junctions | |
| North end | Carlisle |
A7 A596 A591 A594 road A5086 A66 A597 A5094 A5093 A5093 A593 A5092 A590 | |
| South end | Dalton-in-Furness 54°09′50″N 3°11′20″W / 54.1639°N 3.1888°W |
| Location | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Primary destinations | Workington Whitehaven Barrow-in-Furness |
| Road network | |
The A595 is a primary route in Cumbria, in Northern England that starts in Carlisle, passes through Whitehaven and goes close to Workington, Cockermouth and Wigton. It passes Sellafield and Ravenglass before ending at the Dalton-in-Furness by-pass, in southern Cumbria, where it joins the A590 trunk road. The road is mostly single carriageway, apart from in central Carlisle, where it passes the castle as a busy dual carriageway road named Castle Way, and prior to that as Bridge Street and Church Street, where it passes close to the McVitie's or Carr's biscuit factory. The Lillyhall bypass is also dual carriageway.
The road in the Whitehaven area was laid out in the 1930s and the A595 was designated a trunk route in 1946. It was detrunked in 1998, apart from an 18-mile (29 km) section between Little Clifton and Calder Bridge. This section represents the route from Sellafield to the A66.
At Duddon Bridge and at Dove Ford near Grizebeck the road passes through farmyards.