The A1120 is an 'A' road in the
English county of
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
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It links
Stowmarket to
Yoxford passing through the centre of the county.
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The long and winding road
''The Telegraph'', 2003-04-12. Retrieved 2011-04-05. It is long.
Route
From west to east the road passes through the following settlements:
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Stowmarket ''
A14''
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Stowupland
Stowupland is a village east of Stowmarket, Suffolk, England. Stowupland means "a place occupied on higher ground than Stowmarket", with the Saxons calling the village Ultuna due to the far higher presence of owls in the woods that previously s ...
''B1115 (incorrectly labelled as B1151 on some sat-nav devices)''
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Earl Stonham
Earl Stonham is a small village and civil parish (formerly called Stonham Earl) in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is between the A14 and A140 5 miles to the east of Stowmarket
Stowmarket ( ) is a market town in Suffolk, Eng ...
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Stonham Parva
Little Stonham, also known as Stonham Parva, is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located just off the A140, around three miles east of Stowmarket, in 2005 its population was 350.
St Mary the V ...
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A140
The A140 is an A roads in Great Britain, 'A-class' road in Norfolk and Suffolk, East Anglia, England partly following the route of the Roman Pye Road. It runs from the A14 road (Great Britain), A14 near Needham Market to the A149 road, A149 so ...
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Stonham Aspal
Stonham Aspal is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, some five miles (8 km) east of the town of Stowmarket. Nearby villages include Mickfield, Little Stonham and Pettaugh. Its population in ...
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Pettaugh
Pettaugh is a village and civil parish located within the district council area of Mid Suffolk, England.
It is a small village of a little over 200 inhabitants in 85 households, 10 miles north of Ipswich and 2½ miles south of Debenham, in the ...
''B1077''
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Earl Soham
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Saxtead
Saxtead is a small village in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk. Saxtead gives its name to the settlements of Saxtead Green and Saxtead Little Green and the windmill Saxtead Green Windmill. The population of the civil parish a ...
''B1119''
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Dennington
Dennington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is north of Framlingham and north-east of Ipswich in the east of the county. It lies along the A1120 road around west of the road's junction with the main A12 ro ...
''B1116''
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Badingham
Badingham is a civil parish in the East Suffolk district of eastern England, in the county of Suffolk. It is situated 21.8 miles (35.1 kilometres) north east of Ipswich, 35 miles away from Norwich and 13 miles away from the coast. With the road ...
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B1120
B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A road
A roads may be
*motorways or freeways, usually where the local word for motorway begins with A (for example, ''Autobahn'' in German; ''Autostrada'' in Italian).
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Peasenhall
Peasenhall is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 Census was 525. It lies on the A1120 tourist route; neighbouring villages include Sibton a ...
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Sibton
Sibton is a village and civil parish on the A1120 road, in the East Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk. It is near the towns of Saxmundham and Halesworth, the village of Peasenhall and the hamlet of Sibton Green. The church is ...
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Yoxford ''
A12''
History
Original Cambridge route
The A1120 was the original Cambridge southern bypass, upgraded from the B1046 in the early 1930s.
Starting on the
A603 Newnham Road the A1120 headed east along The Fen Causeway, which was only built in the mid-1920s (and opened as part of the B1046). A staggered crossroads took the road over the
A10 Trumpington Road, after which the road ran northeastwards along Lensfield Road and East Road, to end on the
A45 Newmarket Road.
In 1935, the A1120 was renumbered as an eastern extension of the
A603 itself. The Fen Causeway has since been renumbered as part of the
A1134 ring road, although the
A603 is still here as the junior partner in a multiplex.
References
External links
Stonham Aspal Road Safety Group
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Roads in England
Roads in Suffolk