A46 road (Great Britain)

A46
Route information
Length:	214 mi (344 km)
History:	Construction completed: Warwick and Kenilworth Bypass - 1974 Newark-On-Trent Relief Road - October 1990 Leicester Western Bypass - November 1995 Lincoln Relief Road - December 1985 Newark to Widmerpool dualling - June 2012 Alcester to Evesham dual carriageway - August 1995
Major junctions
From:	Bath (51°23′49″N 2°20′10″W / 51.397°N 2.336°W / 51.397; -2.336)
	A1 road A1434 road M1 motorway M40 motorway M5 motorway A617 road
To:	Cleethorpes (53°33′40″N 0°02′06″W / 53.561°N 0.035°W / 53.561; -0.035)
Location
Primary destinations:	Stroud, Cheltenham, Warwick, Coventry, Leicester, Newark-on-Trent, Lincoln
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones

The A46 is an A road in England. It starts east of Bath, Somerset and ends in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, but it does not form a continuous route. Large portions of the old road have been lost, bypassed, or replaced by motorway development. Between Leicester and Lincoln the road follows the course of the Roman Fosse Way, but between Bath and Leicester, two cities also linked by the Fosse Way, it follows a more westerly course.

The original (1923) route of the A46 was from Bath to Laceby, passing through Cheltenham, Broadway, Stratford-on-Avon, Coventry, Leicester, Newark and Lincoln. Unusually for such a long road, no changes were made to its route until the 1970s. In recent years the central sections of the road have been rerouted and renumbered substantially, and there are now two sections where there are gaps of over 10 miles (16 km) where the road does not exist at all. The A46 has also been extended from Laceby to Grimsby and Cleethorpes - the road between Laceby and Grimsby was originally part of the A18.

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