The A157 is an A-road

Great Britain road numbering scheme

The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads in Great Britain. Each road is given a single letter, which represents the road's category, and a subsequent number, with a length of between 1 and 4 digits. Originally introduced to arrange...

 in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England

England

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. It runs between Wragby

Wragby

Wragby is a small town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is located approximately north-west from Horncastle and about north east of the city of Lincoln.- History :...

 and Maltby le Marsh

Maltby le Marsh

Maltby le Marsh is a village in Lincolnshire, England, between Alford and Mablethorpe. The village is at the junction of the A1104 and the A157....

 and is single carriageway

Single carriageway

A single carriageway is a road with 1, 2 or more lanes arranged within a single carriageway with no central reservation to separate opposing flows of traffic. Two-lane road or two-lane highway are single carriageway with one lane for each direction...

 for its entire length (approximately 26 miles (41.8 km)).

Route (Wragby to Maltby-le-Marsh)

The route starts in Wragby, at the junction of the A158

A158 road

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 long...

 Lincoln

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of 85,595; the 2001 census gave the entire area of Lincoln a population of 120,779....

 to Skegness

Skegness

Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Located on the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, east of the city of Lincoln it has a total resident population of 18,910....

 road It passes through the villages of West Barkwith

West Barkwith

West Barkwith is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about north east of Wragby.West Barkwith and its neighbour East Barkwith were mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086 as one entity and consisted of 26 households and a church.The parish church was...

, East Barkwith

East Barkwith

East Barkwith is a village and civil parish on the A157 about north east of the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.The parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary and is a grade II* listed building dating from the early 12th century, with later restorations, and is built of greenstone limestone...

, Hainton

Hainton

Hainton is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the A157, west from Louth and south-east from Market Rasen.Hainton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Haintone", with "9 villagers. 2 smallholders...

, Burgh-on-Bain and Welton le Wold

Welton Le Wold

Welton le Wold is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about west of the town of Louth.Welton was listed in Domesday Book of 1086, when it consisted of 57 households....

, to a junction with the A16 Louth

Louth, Lincolnshire

Louth is a market town and civil parish within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:Known as the "capital of the Lincolnshire Wolds", it is situated where the ancient trackway Barton Street crosses the River Lud, and has a total resident population of 15,930.The Greenwich...

 bypass.

The route then either disappears or runs with the A16 along the bypass southwards to Kenwick Top and the junction with the B1502. At that point, the A16 continues south towards Boston

Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district and had a total population of 55,750 at the 2001 census...

, and the A157 continues east, past the entrance to Kenwick Park. At the next roundabout (the junction with B1200 Louth to Saltfleetby

Saltfleetby

Saltfleetby is a village and civil parish in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Situated approximately east of Louth, north of Mablethorpe and on the coast of the North Sea, the village had a population of 599 at the 2001 Census....

 road) the route heads southeasterly, passing through Legbourne

Legbourne, Lincolnshire

Legbourne is a village and civil parish located about south east of the town of Louth in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.-Cistercian Abbey:...

, North Reston

North Reston

North Reston is a village in the civil parish of Reston, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, on the A157 about south east of the town of Louth....

, South Reston

South Reston

South Reston is a village and former civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about south of the town of Louth on the A157.The civil parish of South Reston was enlarge by the abolition of the parish of Castle Carlton in 1936...

 and Withern

Withern

Withern is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, about six miles south east of Louth. Stain was once an independent parish but was combined with Withern when the old church of St. John the Baptist was destroyed some centuries ago.The name Withern is from the Old English Widu+wudu,...

, before ending in Maltby le Marsh

Maltby le Marsh

Maltby le Marsh is a village in Lincolnshire, England, between Alford and Mablethorpe. The village is at the junction of the A1104 and the A157....

 at the junction with the A1104 Ulceby Cross to Mablethorpe

Mablethorpe

Mablethorpe is a small seaside town in East Lindsey on the coast of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:Several small caravan parks exist around Mablethorpe. The town is administered with Sutton-on-Sea and Trusthorpe, as the civil parish of Mablethorpe and Sutton...

 road

Old routes

The Newnes 1927 atlas shows the A157 as starting in Lincoln, and taking the course of what is now the A158 to Wragby, before terminating at Louth. The present course from Louth to Maltby is listed as being the B1196.

Until the opening of the Louth bypass in 1991, the A157 went through the centre of Louth, along the current route of the B1200 (Westgate, Edward Street, South Street, Newmarket and Legbourne Road.)

Attractions

Between Hainton and Burgh-on-Bain, the road passes close by the Belmont transmitter

Belmont transmitting station

The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated next to the B1225, one mile west of the village of Donington on Bain in the civil parish of South Willingham, near Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire, England . It is owned and operated by Arqiva.It has...

, the tallest structure in the European Union

European Union

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