A151 Road - The A151: Summary

The A151: Summary

In the early 19th century, the A151 would have been called a cross-road2 since it runs across the pattern of these radial routes. As originally designated, it ran from the A15 at Bourne Market Place (TF095201), eastwards to Fleet Hargate, three kilometres east of Holbeach (TF393250), on the A17. Its present western section, between Colsterworth and Bourne, was part of the B676 road3.

Road building and re-thinking of the road system have meant that nowadays, its western end is on the A1 near Colsterworth, in the administrative district of South Kesteven4, and its eastern end on the A17 near Holbeach, in the district of South Holland(5). On the way, it passes to the north of Grimsthorpe Castle and at TF076200, just to the south of Bourne Wood. Then at TF095201, it bisects Bourne. It enters The Fens on the eastern edge of that small town. At TF154207, it passes through the hamlet of Twenty, in Bourne North Fen. At Guthram Gowt, it leaves Kesteven by crossing the South Forty-Foot Drain into Holland. The principal town of South Holland is Spalding (TF245227), which is also the main town on the A151 route. Across the River Welland, lie Moulton, then Holbeach, near which the A151 ends at the A17 (TF350258). That road leads on to King's Lynn and East Anglia.