The 'A1101' is the lowest
road in
Great Britain, along its 53 mile approx. stretch it rarely rises above
sea level. The road runs from
Bury St. Edmunds north west to
Littleport where it disappears for approximately 2 miles, it then re-appears on the other side of the
A10 heading north through
Wisbech and to its end at the
A17 in
Long Sutton. The A1101's route takes it across the
Fens in
Lincolnshire and
Norfolk, a famously low lying area to
Suffolk through
Cambridgeshire.
The road passes through:
Long Sutton,
Tydd St Mary,
Tydd Gote,
Four Gotes,
Wisbech,
Outwell,
Upwell,
Lakesend,
Welney,
Littleport (bypass),
Kennyhill,
Beck Row,
Mildenhall,
Icklingham,
Lackford,
Flempton,
Hengrave,
Fornham All Saints and Bury St Edmunds. From Outwell north the road is classified as a
primary route.
It crosses the following major roads:
★ '
A17' -
Newark-on-Trent to
King's Lynn
★ '
A47' -
Great Yarmouth to
Birmingham (partially reclassified as the
B4114)
★ '
A10' (Great Cambridge Road) -
London Bridge to Kings Lynn
★ '
A11' -
London to
Norwich
★ '
A14' -
Port of Felixstowe to the
M1 junction with the
M6 (19) NE of
Rugby.