The A16 road is a principal road of Lincolnshire in the

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region of England, connecting the port of Grimsby and Peterborough, where it meets the A1175, A47 &

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then on to the A1 and the A605; the latter, in turn, giving a through route to

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and the west, and south west of England. Its length is . The road was "de-trunked", with responsibility largely returned to Lincolnshire County Council from the Highways Agency in 2002.

Settlements on route

From north to south its route is: * Grimsby *

Utterby Utterby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A16 road, south from Grimsby and north from Louth. Utterby railway station (or Utterby Halt), on the line between Grimsby and ...

Louth Louth may refer to: Australia *Hundred of Louth, a cadastral unit in South Australia * Louth, New South Wales, a town *Louth Bay, a bay in South Australia **Louth Bay, South Australia, a town and locality Canada * Louth, Ontario Ireland * County ...

(now bypassed) * Burwell *

Walmsgate Walmsgate is a hamlet in the civil parish of Burwell, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A16 road, south-east from Louth. The name 'Walmsgate' means 'point of land of a man named Waldmaer'. The lost ...

* Dalby * Partney (now bypassed) * Spilsby * East Keal * Keal Cotes * Stickford (now bypassed) * Stickney * Sibsey *

Hilldyke Hilldyke is a hamlet, lying partly in East Lindsey, and partly in the Borough of Boston, in Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north from the town of Boston, and on the A16 road. Hilldyke is within an area of arable farmland, ...

* Boston *

Wyberton __NOTOC__ Wyberton is a village in Lincolnshire, England. It lies just south-west of Boston, and on the B1397 – the former A16 London Road – between Boston and Kirton. The A16 bisects the village. The population of the civil p ...

(now bypassed) * Kirton (now bypassed) * Surfleet (now bypassed) * Pinchbeck (now bypassed) * Spalding (now bypassed) *

Crowland Crowland (modern usage) or Croyland (medieval era name and the one still in ecclesiastical use; cf. la, Croilandia) is a town in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Peterborough and Spalding. Crowland c ...

(bypassed) * Peterborough The road is a Primary Route for its entire length. Most of the A16 is single carriageway.

History

Ludborough Bypass opening

The £1.2 million Ludborough Bypass opened in November 1992.

Fotherby Bypass opening

The Fotherby Bypass opened in 2004.

Louth Bypass opening

£6.6 million Louth Bypass opened in August 1991.

Partney Bypass opening

The Partney Bypass opened in August 2005.

Stickford Bypass opening

The £1 million Stickford Bypass opened in October 1992.

Boston Inner Relief Road opening

The £1.4 million Boston Inner Relief Road opened in early 1978.

Boston-Algarkirk Diversion opening

The £11.5 million Boston-

Algarkirk Algarkirk ( ) is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston in Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south-south-west from Boston and near the A16 road. It has a population of 406, falling to 386 at the 2011 census. An alternative vill ...

Diversion opened in October 1991.

Spalding Bypass opening

The £23 million Spalding- Sutterton Improvement (the Spalding Bypass) opened in August 1995.

Future

Boston Distributor Road

There are demands for Boston to be bypassed. Therefore, Lincolnshire County Council have 'safeguarded' the corridor for the Boston Distributor Road.

Incidents

There are multiple crashes on the A16, especially near Louth.

Spalding-Peterborough route change

Old route of the A16

The route of the A16 changed following the completion of the new Spalding-Peterborough link road. The section between Spalding to the south of Crowland only, opened in August 2010; the remainder was completed in October 2011. The new route has taken the number A16, effectively linking the route with Peterborough, with the current road from Spalding to Stamford becoming the A1175.Chance to see route of £69.8 million road from Spalding to Eye
, Lincs. Free Press, 25 September 2008

A1073 road

This new section replaced the A1073 road, a road that ran between the former A16 at south of Spalding in Lincolnshire and the A47 between

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and Eye Green at near Peterborough. The A1073 route had become increasingly dangerous over the years because traffic usage had increased. It was narrow with many blind corners and slopes, and much of it was on an embankment with deep ditches either side and no run-off areas. There were dangerous junctions, particularly with the B1443 between

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and Thorney, which formed a staggered

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. The road was a principal route servicing the food-processing industry in Spalding, bringing in supplies and moving products to the

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distribution system to the south. An upgrade to the route had been under discussion for many years. The main hold-up was arguments over funding between the administrative counties of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and the

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, exacerbated by the actions of a former Leader of Lincolnshire County Council who went to jail for seeking to influence the route to his own financial advantage. Eventually a route was agreed, avoiding Cowbit and

and joining the A47 west of

, and in 2008 construction work began, originally due to be completed by Autumn 2010. The Northern of the new route opened between Spalding and the roundabout south of Crowland in Autumn 2010, with the opening of the Southern delayed due to structural problems at the embankment at Car Dyke Bridge. On completion of remedial repairs and the opening of the Southern portion on 16 October 2011, the new road was renumbered to form part of the A16; the original A1073 alignment between Spalding and Eye Green became an unclassified

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.Chance to see route of £89 million road from Spalding to Eye
, Lincs. Free Press, 25 September 2008

References

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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