A17 road

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road= A17
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direction= North-South-east
start= Kings Lynn
destinations= Sleaford
end= Newark-on-Trent
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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. 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 convert|3|mi|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.

The road follows the following route:

*Newark (where it joins the A1 and the A46)
*north of Sleaford
*Heckington (bypassed)
*Swineshead (bypassed)
*Sutterton (bypassed)
*Holbeach (bypassed)
*Long Sutton, Little Sutton and Sutton Bridge (bypassed)
*King's Lynn

The road has a local reputation for being incredibly boring, and many as a result is one of the most dangerous roads in Lincolnshire, with many deaths yearly.