A144 road (Great Britain)
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| Length: | 14.4 mi (23.2 km) |
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| North end: | Bungay (A143) |
 A143 roadB1062 B1123 east to Blythburgh B1123 west to Harleston B1117 to Stradbroke  A12 road
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| South end: | A12 |
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The A144 is an A road in the English county of Suffolk. It runs from the town of Bungay, close to the border with Norfolk, to the A12 trunk road near the village of Darsham, passing through the market town of Halesworth. It is around 14 miles (23 km) in length and is single carriageway throughout.
The A144 was established in the 1920s and originally ran from the outskirts of Norwich, through Bungay and Halesworth to the A12 at Darsham. The section north of Bungay was reclassified as the B1332 in the 1960s, reducing the length of the A144 by half.
Prior to the building of the Bungay northern bypass in the 1980s the road started in central Bungay at the Buttercross market place. The bypass was completed in 1983, re-routing the A143 around the northern edge of the town on the former Waveney Valley railway line which had closed to traffic in 1966. This led to the extension of the A144 as far as the bypass. The A143 had previously run through Bungay.
The A144 runs through the towns of Bungay and Halesworth in a generally north-south direction. It generally runs through rural areas along its route.
The A144 has its northernmost point at the roundabout with the A143 on the northern edge of Bungay near the Clays printing factory. It passes through the centre of the town, becoming part of the Bungay one way system established on a permanent basis in 2014. This splits the road in places before it is reunited at the southern edge of the town centre having passed the grade I listed St Mary's Church. The road then passes Bungay Pool and Gym on the southern edge of the town before entering a rural section.
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