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| A17 road | |
| Direction | North-South-east |
| Start | Kings Lynn |
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Sleaford |
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| End | Newark-on-Trent |
| Roads joined |  A1 road A607 road A15 road A153 road A52 road A16 road A47 road |
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The A17 road is a road linking Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, England, to King's Lynn in Norfolk. It stretches for a distance of 100 kilometres travelling across the flat Fen landscapes of southern Lincolnshire and western Norfolk.
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Usage
The A17 is also a major holiday route in the summer months for cars and caravans making their way to the Norfolk resorts of Hunstanton, Wells-next-the-Sea, Sheringham, Cromer and Great Yarmouth and is one of only two direct routes that links Norfolk with the A1, the other being the A47. The A17 has very few stretches of dual-carriageway (four in total) with the longest being the Sleaford bypass which is 3 miles (4.8 km) long with the second longest at Beckingham which is just half a mile long and the other two stretches are located at Roundabouts in Long Sutton and Sutton Bridge both of which are under a quarter of a mile long.
Hazards
The road carries more traffic than it was designed to carry. It also carried many goods vehicles that must travel at 40mph as it is a single carriageway. Impatient drivers take risks when gaps in the oncoming traffic allow.
Route
The road follows the following route:
- Newark (where it joins the A1 and the A46). This section passes over the former RAF Winthorpe, and passes by the national distribution centre of Dixons and Currys.
- Beckingham, the £600,000 dual-carriageway bypass was built in 1972. At this point the road crosses the River Witham and enters the county of Lincolnshire and the district of North Kesteven.
- Leadenham, the £3.3 million bypass opened in March 1995. At this point the road crosses the A607 and enters the district of South Kesteven.
- It passes just south of RAF Cranwell near the junction with the B6403 Ermine Street. At this point the road re-enters the district of North Kesteven.
- North of Sleaford, which was bypassed on 27 March 1975. The former route is partly the B1518.
- Heckington, the £2.5 million 2.8 mile bypass opened on 14 December 1982 by Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey. The former route is the B1394.
- Swineshead railway station, the A1121 joins for Boston and the road meets a level crossing. From Sleaford to here, the road follows the Grantham to Skegness Line. The road enters the district of Boston.
- Swineshead (bypassed in 1985), where it meets the A52.
- Sutterton (bypassed), the £4.4 million three-mile Wigtoft-Sutterton Bypass opened in July 1995. It meets the A16 at a roundabout.
- Fosdyke, it crosses the River Welland here entering the district of South Holland. This swing bridge was built in 1911.
- Holbeach, the bypass (New Washway Road from Saracen's Head to Laurel Lodge Farm) opened in 1989. It meets the A151 at a T-junction, yet there is a roundabout for the B1168 (former route). It passes the Holbeach Technology Park. This also bypassed Fleet Hargate.
- Long Sutton, Little Sutton and Sutton Bridge. The Long Sutton-Sutton Bridge bypass opened in 1989. It still crosses the Cross Keys swing bridge.
- The £3.14 million 6.8 mile West of Kings Lynn - County Boundary section was opened on 14 December 1982 by Lynda Chalker.
- King's Lynn
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