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The A1094 is an A road in the English county of Suffolk. It is around miles in length. The road runs from a junction off the A12 trunk road at Friday Street in Benhall to Aldeburgh on the North Sea 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'', Ordnance Survey 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 ), ''Ipswich Star'', 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 before entering the parish of Snape. It passes underneath a dual set of pylons which carry the overhead power lines from the Sizewell nuclear power stations, before passing to the north of the village of Snape. The parish Church of St John the Baptist, a Grade II * listed building 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 is to the east of the church on former common land. 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 lie immediately to the south of the road.〔Bruce-Mitford.L.S (1953) ''The Snape Boat Grave'', in Bruce-Mitford, ''Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology''. (Available online ), retrieved 2015-10-23.〕〔(Church Common round barrows ), Historic England. Retrieved 2015-10-23.〕 A series of boat and ship burials were discovered here in the 19th century and the site is a scheduled ancient monument.〔〔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. (Available online ), 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. (Available online ), retrieved 2015-10-23.〕 The A1094 then passes sough 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. These were built in 1940 as part of emergency invasion defences in East Anglia.〔(Monument No 1421429 ), Pastscape, Historic England. Retrieved 2015-10-24.〕〔(Suffolk Square Pill Box, Friston ), Traces of War. Retrieved 2015-10-24.〕〔(Suffolk Square Pill Box, Friston ), Traces of War. Retrieved 2015-10-24.〕〔Lowry.B (2004) ''British Home Defences 1940-45'' p.18, Osprey Publishing. (Available online ), retrieved 2015-10-24.〕 The junction with the B1069 towards Knodishall and Leiston is passed to the east and the road continues in a south-easterly direction towards Aldeburgh,〔 passing more World War II defence systems to the south.〔(Monument No 1420714 ), Pastscape, Historic England. Retrieved 2015-10-24.〕 Aldeburgh golf club lies other 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 the 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 Chuch 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 south running parallel to the North Sea. 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A1094 road」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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