A1175 road

A1175 Uffington Road passing Newstead Mill

The A1175 starts as a single carriageway at the A43 junction with the A1 Stamford Bypass at TF022054, and follows Kettering Road into Stamford to the Junction in St Martins. It turns North as High St. St. Martins, passes over the town bridge (and the River Welland) and turns east along Wharf Road, Ryhall road, and Uffington Road. As Uffington road it crosses the River Gwash and leaves Stamford at Newstead Mill, TF047078.

Tallington level crossing

Still a single carriageway the A1175 passes through the villages of Uffington and Tallington. At Tallington level crossing (TF095085) it is crossed on the level by the main London-Edinburgh railway line. The frequency of the trains often causes long delays here.[4][5] After many years, there are at last plans for a solution.[6] Continuing in a roughly easterly direction the road passes Tallington lakes. The road formed the southern limit of the gravel workings from which the lakes were developed. The road skirts the northern edge of West Deeping where it is crossed at TF109093 by King Street (Roman road).

This section ends at the roundabout on the Deeping Bypass at TF129098

The Deeping bypass crossing the Roman Car Dyke
(the vehicles photographed are on the bypass)

The route turns left onto the dual carriageway Deeping Bypass, sharing the road with the A15 Peterborough to Bourne highway, as far as the roundabout for Bourne Road to the north of Market Deeping at TF131112. From here the A15 departs northwards, and the A1175 heads east, reverting to single carriageway, having the bypass to itself. At TF135114 it crosses the Roman Car Dyke, two examples of civil engineering built nearly two millennia apart.[7]

The dual carriageway ends at TF171127 having bypassed Market Deeping and Deeping St James.

Before the Deeping Bypass was built this road went through Market Deeping and Deeping St James. This route is now known as the B1525.[2] The Deeping Bypass was opened in July 1998, and the whole works, A15 and former A16, cost £10 million.[8][9][10]

A1175 at Hop Pole

Littleworth Drove

The whole extraparochial area to the west of Deeping St James was known as Littleworth, and hence the road as Littleworth Drove. But after successful drainage of Deeping Fen in the 18th and 19th century, the village of Deeping St Nicholas was created, and that portion of the road became High Street, Deeping St Nicholas, before reverting to the Littleworth name again at the other end of the village.

The A1175 then, whatever it might be called, leaves the Deeping bypass, still as single carriageway, and passes through the villages of Hop Pole, and Deeping St Nicholas, before crossing the Peterborough-Spalding railway line on an oblique level crossing at the former Littleworth railway station at TF208152. The route the continues roughly North East past isolated farmhouses until the end of Deeping fen at the North Drove Drain, TF233189.

Crossing the Welland

Cowbit is a village a short distance away on the former A1073 Spalding-Peterborough road. Cowbit wash is a low-lying area around the Welland designed to be flooded to protect Spalding. The road crosses this area at its Northern extent.

There is a bridge at TF233189 over the minor North Drove Drain, the road skirts south of the hamlet of Bridge House (named for a defunct public house on the road) and crosses another bridge at TF237192 over the main course of the River Welland. Within a short distance there is another bridge over the New River (an artificial course of the Welland) at TF242194 where there is also a small roundabout.

The small Roundabout marks the crossing with the former A1073 Spalding-Peterborough road, since replaced by the new road which has taken the A16 designation. The former route is truncated to the north, but is still extant to the south as a minor road.

The A1175 continues north-east for around 200m more to its end at the Roundabout at TF245196, where the A16 Spalding Bypass and A16 Spalding-Peterborough meet the B1173 local road into Spalding.