A46 road

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.

The original (1923) route of the A46 was from Bath to Laceby, passing through Cheltenham, Broadway, Stratford-on-Avon, Coventry, Leicester, Newark and Lincoln.

The major realignments have been Bypasses were also built around Market Rasen, Lincoln and Newark.

[12] The road becomes very straight and flat, passing through Middle Rasen Plantation and meets the A1103 from the right.

[17] Heading South from the A606 junction, the existing dual carriageway still following the route of the Fosse Way.

There is a break in the road here, and it resumes again at Festival Island where it takes the southern exit on to the three-lane Kenilworth bypass.

Along the bypass there are exits for Stoneleigh and the University of Warwick, Kenilworth and Leamington Spa (A452).

The 3-mile (4.8 km) dual carriageway section south of the improved Longbridge island is the only part of the A46 on its original routing between Leicester and Cheltenham.

Stratford is bypassed to the north as a single carriageway road, crossing the A3400 and meeting the A422.

The A46 takes a dual carriageway route to the south towards Evesham, meeting the B439 at a roundabout near Bidford on Avon.

It then heads through Brockworth, Stroud, through Nailsworth, to the M4 motorway, where since 2003 access to the roundabout has been controlled by traffic lights.

[19][20] In February 1994, a camp was set up on Solsbury Hill, to protest the Batheaston bypass, however this was ultimately unsuccessful and construction was completed by November 1995.

[21][22] A small section of the A46 between Painswick and Stroud subsided during the floods on Friday 29 July 2007 and was shut for over 6 months, causing quite an impact on the local area.