A17 road

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 62 miles travelling across the flat Fen landscapes of southern Lincolnshire and western Norfolk.

The A17 is a major route for HGVs accessing Norfolk from Northern England and the Midlands and is also a major holiday route particularly in the summer months for cars and caravans making their way from the North of England to the seaside 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 with the longest being the Sleaford bypass which is 3 miles long with the second longest at Beckingham which is just 1⁄2 mile long and the other two stretches are located at roundabouts in Long Sutton and Sutton Bridge both of which are under 1⁄4 mile long, although in addition there are several stretches of dual carriageway at junctions. It is one of two main routes for residents of East Anglia to get to the North of England - the other is the A47 via Peterborough, which is a longer route but has more dual carriageway, particularly around Peterborough, though it too remains mostly single carriageway.

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