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| A16 road | |
| Direction | South-North |
| Start | Stamford |
| Primary destinations1 |
Spalding Boston |
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| End | Grimsby |
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The A16 road is a principal road of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands region of England, connecting the port of Grimsby and Stamford, where it meets the A1 and the A43 the latter, in turn, giving a through route to Oxford and the south west of England. Its length is 85 miles.
From north to south its route is:
- Grimsby
- Utterby
- Louth (now bypassed)
- Burwell
- Walmsgate
- Dalby
- Partney (now bypassed)
- Spilsby
- East Keal
- Keal Cotes
- Stickford
- Stickney
- Sibsey
- Hilldyke
- Boston
- Wyberton
- Kirton (now bypassed)
- Surfleet
- Pinchbeck (now bypassed)
- Spalding (now bypassed)
- Deeping St Nicholas
- Market Deeping (now bypassed)
- Tallington
- Uffington
- Stamford
Although it has 'primary route' designation for its entire length virtually none of the A16 is dual carriageway and there are speed restrictions on much of it.
The one-mile (1.6 km) £1.2m Ludborough Bypass opened in November 1992. The one-mile (1.6 km) Fotherby Bypass opened in 2004. The three-mile (5 km) £6.6m Louth Bypass opened in August 1991. The one-mile (1.6 km) Partney Bypass opened in August 2005. From West Keal to Boston, the road is very flat. The one-mile (1.6 km) £1m Stickford Bypass opened in October 1992. The £1.4m Boston Inner Relief Road opened in early 1978. There are demands for Boston to be bypassed. The six-mile (10 km) £11.5m Boston-Algarkirk Diversion opened in October 1991. The eleven-mile (18 km) £23m Spalding-Sutterton Improvement (the Spalding Bypass) opened in August 1995. The four-mile (6 km) £7m Market Deeping Bypass (also part of the A15) opened in July 1998.
The route of the A16 will change in mid-2010. On completion of the new A1073 road from Peterborough to Spalding, that road will take the number A16, effectively linking the route with Peterborough, with the current road from Spalding to Stamford becoming the A1175. [1]
References
- ^ Chance to see route of £69.8 million road from Spalding to Eye, Lincs. Free Press, 25 September 2008
External links
- Partney Bypass opens.
- Boston Bypass Pressure Group.
- Lincolnshire Police drop off member of public by the A16 who then dies from hypothermia walking home.
- Park and Ride site at Stickney.
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Coordinates: 53°32′N 0°04′W / 53.53°N 0.07°W
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