{{Short description|Road in Lancashire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Use British English|date=February 2013}} {{Infobox road |country=ENG |type=A |route=678 |header_type=minor |direction_a= West |direction_b= East |terminus_a= [[Blackburn]] |terminus_b= [[Padiham]] |junction= {{jct|country=GBR|A|679|name1= }}<br />{{jct|country=GBR|A|6119|name1= }}<br />{{jct|country=GBR|M|65|dab1=Great Britain}}<br />{{jct|country=GBR|A|680|name1= }}<br />{{jct|country=GBR|A|6068|name1= }}<br />{{jct|country=GBR|A|671|name1= }} |image = Industrial Estate, Blackburn Road - geograph.org.uk - 1601280.jpg |image_notes = Blackburn Road passing an industrial estate in Clayton-le-Moors }}
The '''A678''' is a road in [[Lancashire]], [[England]], which runs between the towns of [[Blackburn]] and [[Padiham]].
The road was formerly the main route between Blackburn and [[Burnley]] before it was [[Bypass (road)|bypass]]ed by the [[M65 motorway]] which opened in the 1980s. It currently runs between the A6078 Blackburn Town Centre Orbital Route and the [[A671 road|A671]] in Padiham, via the small towns of [[Rishton]] and [[Clayton-le-Moors]], having been extended at the Blackburn end when the [[A677 road|A677]] was renumbered east of Blackburn. Within Blackburn the road is a [[primary route]]. It forms the main route for traffic arriving in Blackburn from other towns in [[Lancashire|East Lancashire]] and [[West Yorkshire]], as it connects the town centre with the M65 junction 6 at [[Whitebirk]]. The Red Lion roundabout at Whitebirk, where the A678 joins the [[A6119 road|A6119]], with [[slip road]]s to the M65, had become prone to [[traffic congestion]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www3.lancashire.gov.uk/council/meetings/displayFile.asp?FTYPE=A&FILEID=11751 | title=Lancashire Local – Hyndburn | date=2005-11-28 | access-date=2008-03-18 | publisher=Lancashire County Council }}</ref> since the M65 was extended in 1997, and was recently upgraded with the addition of [[traffic light]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blackburn.gov.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.39306 |title=Whitebirk Gateway to be transformed |date=2008-03-12 |access-date=2008-03-17 |publisher=Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607022053/http://www.blackburn.gov.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.39306 |archive-date=7 June 2011 }}</ref>
[[File:The Walton Arms at Altham - geograph.org.uk - 2908500.jpg|thumb|left|A678 passing the Walton Arms at Altham]] The A678 is the main road through Rishton and is called Blackburn Road, High Street and Hermitage Street. It crosses the A680 at a set of traffic lights in Clayton-le-Moors and then passes through [[Altham, Lancashire|Altham]] before it reaches the A6068, and then the A671 in Padiham. Although most of the road between Whitebirk and Padiham is bypassed by the M65 and is no longer a primary route it is considered by [[Hyndburn Borough Council]] to be one of the district's primary roads according to its [[Local Plan]]. and provides access to [[industrial estate]]s in Altham.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ww2.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/your_council/Planning/localplan/pages/ch07.htm |title=Hyndburn Local Plan – Chapter 7 – Transport |access-date=2008-03-18 |publisher=Hyndburn Borough Council }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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