A158 | |
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Route information | |
Length: | 41 mi (66 km) |
Major junctions | |
From: | Lincoln |
A46 road A15 road A157 road A153 road A16 road A1028 road A52 road |
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To: | Skegness |
Road network | |
The A158 road is a major tourist route that heads from Lincoln in the west to Skegness on the east coast. The road is located entirely in the county of Lincolnshire and is single carriageway for almost its entirety. The road is approximately 41 miles (66 km) long. The road gets quite congested with holiday traffic during the summer.
The road begins outside Lincoln as part of the by-pass at the A46 (53°15′15″N 0°30′47″W / 53.2542°N 0.5130°W). roundabout with Nettleham Road (B1182). The road does not enter the borough of Lincoln, and begins in the parish of Nettleham in West Lindsey. Before the Lincoln Bypass was built (in stages) in the mid-1980s, the A158 historically went along Wragby Road (now the A15). Even earlier the A158 followed the northern end of Canwick Road, the former B1188, over Pelham Bridge since its opening in 1958, and along South Park Avenue which was also built in 1958, to meet the former A46 at St Catherine's. This was parallel to the former western section B1190. The A15 at the time followed the west of Lincoln town centre, then along Silver Street.