The A1068 is a road in northern

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that runs from Seaton Burn in

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Alnwick Alnwick ( ) is a market town in Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was 8,116. The town is south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish border, inland from the North Sea ...

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. The section between Ellington and

Alnmouth Alnmouth () is a coastal village in Northumberland, England, situated east-south-east of Alnwick. The population of the civil parish at the 2001 Census was 562, reducing to 445 at the 2011 Census. Located at the mouth of the River Aln, the vil ...

is signposted as part of the ''Northumberland Coastal Route''.

Route

The A1068 begins at a

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with the

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at Seaton Burn. It has a brief dual carriageway section before crossing from the county of Tyne and Wear into Northumberland. It is dual carriageway standard again past Nelson Village, and joins the route of the

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for about . It continues through the town of

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where it meets the A193 road and beyond the town it has a junction with the A196 road (to Morpeth). It joins the route of the A197 road for about close to the town of

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. It re-emerges and heads in a north-easterly direction until it reaches the roundabout with the

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. From its junction with the A189 the A1068 gains

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and heads roughly north. It passes the coastal town of Amble and the villages of Warkworth and

, crossing the

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at Lesbury before reaching the town of

. The road terminates at its junction with the A1.

References

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