The A271 road is a main road through
East Sussex
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,
England
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. It runs east–west from the
A2100 in
Battle
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to the
A22 and
A267 at Horsebridge near
Hailsham
Hailsham is a town, a civil parish and the administrative centre of the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.OS Explorer map Eastbourne and Beachy Head Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Dat ...
.
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. The bendy road continues through
Boreham Street and
Windmill Hill.
It then enters
Herstmonceux
Herstmonceux ( , ; ) is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, which includes Herstmonceux Castle.
The Herstmonceux Medieval Festival is held annually in August.
History
The name comes from Anglo-Saxon ...
, coming out of the village down a hill it then comes up to Magham Down. The road then enters
Hailsham
Hailsham is a town, a civil parish and the administrative centre of the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.OS Explorer map Eastbourne and Beachy Head Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Dat ...
meeting the
A295 and the B2104 and then goes into Lower Horsebridge meeting the
A22.
The eastern end of this road was renumbered sometime after 1980 – originally the eastern end of the A271 was at
Ninfield
Ninfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. The village is quite linear and centred 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Bexhill-on-Sea where two roads cross: the A269 from Bexhill to Battle and the ...
where it met the
A269 which went to Battle via
Catsfield
Catsfield is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. It is located six miles (9.7 km) north of Bexhill, and three miles (5 km) southwest of Battle.
The village was first documented in the Domesday B ...
(now the
B2204). The current route of the A271 follows what was the B2204 and A269.
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Transport in East Sussex