The A1094 is an A road in the English county of Suffolk. It is around in length. The road runs from a junction off the A12 trunk road at Friday Street in Benhall to

Aldeburgh Aldeburgh ( ) is a coastal town in the county of Suffolk, England. Located to the north of the River Alde. Its estimated population was 2,276 in 2019. It was home to the composer Benjamin Britten and remains the centre of the international Alde ...

on the

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coast. The road is single carriageway throughout.

Route description

The A1094 junction with the A12 is at the southern end of a short section of dual carriageway to the south of Benhall Lodge.''Landranger Sheet 156 - Saxmundham, Aldeburgh & Southwold'',

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1:50 000 sheet, 2015-10-21. The junction is considered an accident risk and is protected by a 50 miles per hour speed limit and static speed camera.New speed cameras for Suffolk villages
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'', 2002-02-18. Retrieved 2015-10-24. It is the site of a farm and farm shop at Friday Street. The road travels eastward toward the coast. It crosses the Lowestoft to Ipswich railway line and then the River Fromus, a tributary of the

River Alde The River Alde and River Ore form a river system in Suffolk, England passing by Snape and Aldeburgh. The River Alde and River Ore meet northwest of Blaxhall. From there downriver the combined river is known as the River Alde past Snape and ...

, before entering the parish of Snape. It passes underneath a dual set of

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which carry the

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s from the

Sizewell nuclear power stations The Sizewell nuclear site consists of two nuclear power stations, one of which is still operational, located near the small fishing village of Sizewell in Suffolk, England. Sizewell A, with two Magnox reactors, is now in the process of being dec ...

, before passing to the north of the village of Snape. The parish Church of St John the Baptist, a Grade II*

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dating from the 15th century, is immediately to the north of the road at the junction with the B1069 to Snape and Rendelsham and a minor road to Sternfield.Church of St John the Baptist, Snape
British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2015-10-24. The site of

Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery The Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery is a place of burial dated to the 6th century AD located on Snape Common, near to the town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, Eastern England. Dating to the early part of the Anglo-Saxon Era of English history, it contains ...

is to the east of the church on former

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. It originally consisted of between eight and ten burial mounds on either side of the road.Tumulii and Sax mixed inhumation and cremation cemetery
Heritage Gateway. Retrieved 2015-10-24. Much of the site has been destroyed by modern agriculture and the remaining

tumuli A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or ''kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built ...

lie immediately to the south of the road. Bruce-Mitford, R.L.S (1953) ''The Snape Boat Grave'', in Bruce-Mitford, ''Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology''
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retrieved 2015-10-23. A series of boat and ship burials were discovered here in the 19th century and the site is a

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.Filmer-Sankey. W (1983) The Snape Anglo-Saxon cemetery and ship burial: current state of knowledge, in ''Sutton Hoo Research Committee: Bulletins 1983-1988'' pp.30–32
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retrieved 2015-10-23.Filmer-Sankey. W (1988) The Snape Anglo-Saxon cemetery - A report on the 1986 excavation, in ''Sutton Hoo Research Committee: Bulletins 1983-1988'' pp.105–109
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retrieved 2015-10-23. The A1094 then passes south of the village of Friston. Two World War II pillboxes are prominent landmarks in a field to the north of the road at the junction with the B1121 towards

Saxmundham Saxmundham ( ) is a market town in Suffolk, England, set in the valley of the River Fromus about north-east of Ipswich and west of the coast at Sizewell. The town is bypassed by the main A12 road between London and Lowestoft. The town is ser ...

. These were built in 1940 as part of emergency invasion defences in East Anglia.Monument No. 1421429
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. Retrieved 2015-10-24.Suffolk Square Pill Box, Friston
Traces of War. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
Traces of War. Retrieved 2015-10-24.Lowry.B (2004) ''British Home Defences 1940-45'' p.18, Osprey Publishing
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, retrieved 2015-10-24. The junction with the B1069 towards

Knodishall Knodishall, a village in Suffolk, England, lies south-east of Saxmundham, south-west of Leiston, and 3 miles from the coast, in the Blything Hundred. Most dwellings are now at Coldfair Green; just a few remain in the original village by the ...

and

Leiston Leiston ( ) is an English town in the East Suffolk non-metropolitan district of Suffolk, near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about from the North Sea coast, north-east of Ipswich and north-east of London. The town had a population of 5,508 at th ...

is passed to the east and the road continues in a south-easterly direction towards

, passing more World War II defence systems to the south.Monument No. 1420714
PastScape,

. Retrieved 2015-10-24. Aldeburgh golf club lies north of the A1094 and is passed before the outskirts of the town are reached. A roundabout controls traffic flow on the edge of the popular seaside resort with the B1122 running north to Leiston at this point. This marks the site of the former Aldeburgh railway station, the terminus of the branch line from Saxmundham. The last trains operated on this line in 1966 and the station was demolished in 1975.Aldeburgh Station
Disused Stations. Retrieved 2015-10-24. The Station public house is now located here. The road continues into Aldeburgh passing the library before reaching the Grade II* listed Church of St Peter and St Paul with its 14th century tower overlooking the town.Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh
British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2015-10-24. The road turns sharply south at a junction immediately to the east the church, becoming Aldeburgh High Street.A1094 to Snape and Aldeburgh opening ahead of time
, Suffolk Coast Business, 2012-05-22. Retrieved 2013-01-31. It continues for around to the south, running parallel to the

. It ends near the former Fort Green Mill with the road ahead passing a car park on the edge of the town before becoming a track onto the neck of

Orford Ness Orford Ness is a cuspate foreland shingle spit on the Suffolk coast in Great Britain, linked to the mainland at Aldeburgh and stretching along the coast to Orford and down to North Weir Point, opposite Shingle Street. It is divided from the m ...

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