Where was there a Cattle Crossing on the A1?

[BadlyHungBoy]

I know there was one because I got stopped at it. It must have been about 1977 and about five years later there was an item on the Today programme (Radio4) reporting on the new fangled bridge. I suspect that particular stretch of the road has been bypassed; or, worse still, bulldozed, but I cannot rest until I find out where it was.

[elmwood]

There was a cattle crossing on the A1 at Kirk Deighton, just north of Wetherby in Yorkshire. When the by-pass to Wetherby was built and the A1 was upgraded to dual carriageway in the 60's, its route cut across farmland near Kirk Deighton. The farm was called Dalby's farm  and twice a day their cows ( I can't remember the names of the cows!) were taken to and from their milking parlour, on one side of the A1, to their fields on the other side, which involved switching on warning lights at the crossing place and halting all traffic on both sides of this main trunk road while the cows ambled across - in summer, winter, thick fog, snow etc. Eventually the highways authorities decided that this was a bit silly and did what they should have done originally and built a bridge over the A1 to allow the cows to cross in peace. On the same stretch of road, at its junction with the Wetherby to York road adjacent to Wetherby Racecourse they also omitted to build a bridge crossing until, after many accidents and several deaths, they rectified this situation. I don't know how much milk was spilt or how many cows died before they too had their bridge crossing built. The original by-pass to Wetherby was subsequently by-passed and currently the by-pass to the by-pass is itself being by-passed with the new route of the A1 being taken North-East of the racecourse and joining up with the motorway standard section of the A1 near Walshford away from the site of the original cattle crossing. Trust that this is the place you remember and that you like those cows will be able to R.I.P.