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Battle is a town and civil parish in the district of Rother in East Sussex, England. It lies 50 miles (80 km) south-east of London, 27 miles (43 km) east of Brighton and 20 miles (32 km) east of Lewes. Hastings is to the south-east and Bexhill-on-Sea to the south. Battle is in the designated High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Bexhill and Battle (/ ˈ b ɛ k s h ɪ l /) is a constituency [n 1] in East Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Kieran Mullan of the Conservative Party. [ n 2 ]
Sussex escaped most of the ravages of the Civil War with two sieges and one battle. Hand-drawn map of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Middlesex by Christopher Saxton from 1575. As the Industrial Revolution took hold, the Wealden iron industry collapsed. The growth of the seaside resorts in the 18th century was especially significant in Sussex.
The A271 road is a main road through East Sussex, England. [1] It runs east–west from the A2100 in Battle to the A22 and A267 at Horsebridge near Hailsham. [2] [3] The road starts at a roundabout in Battle. It continues through the suburbs into some wooded countryside and later on the road comes to a junction with the A269.
For local government purposes, East Sussex comprises a non-metropolitan county, with five districts, and the unitary authority of Brighton and Hove. East Sussex and West Sussex historically formed a single county, Sussex. The northeast of East Sussex is part of the Weald, a sandstone anticline that was once an extensive woodland. The highest ...
Netherfield is a village in the civil parish of Battle, in the Rother district, in the county of East Sussex, England. [1] [2] In the 1870-1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, Netherfield was described as a hamlet and chapelry with a population of 500. [3] The Church of St John the Baptist was built in 1860 and is grade II* listed. [4]
The route commemorates 1066, the year of the Battle of Hastings, and seeks to link the places and the people of that important year.It runs through East Sussex from Pevensey where William of Normandy gathered his invading army of Normans and prepared to meet King Harold to Rye, East Sussex, passing through Battle, East Sussex.
Battle railway station is on the Hastings line in the south of England and serves the town of Battle, East Sussex. It is 55 miles 46 chains (89.4 km) down the line from London Charing Cross. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern. It was opened on 1 January 1852 and line to Hastings opening a month later.