Battle
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size.
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a series of military engagements that is well defined in duration, area, and force commitment. An engagement with only limited commitment between the forces and without decisive results is sometimes called a skirmish.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Battle
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Senlac Hill
Senlac Hill or Senlac Ridge is generally accepted as the location in which Harold Godwinson deployed his army for the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066. It is located near what is now the town of Battle, East Sussex.
400 m · hill in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Durhamford Manor
Durhamford Manor is a Grade II* listed country house in the parish of Sedlescombe, East Sussex, England. The timber-framed, close-studded house dates to the early 16th century.
3.8 km · manor house in Sedlescombe, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hemingfold Meadow
Hemingfold Meadow is a 4.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Battle in East Sussex. This site consists of two adjacent meadows which have been managed with a grazing and mowing regime which maintains the flora.
3.2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Battle Abbey and Battlefield
High Street, TN33 0AD, fax: +44 1424 775059.
- 02Church of St Mary the Virgin
Upper Lake, TN33 0AN,.
- 03Almonry
Gardens and Battle Museum of Local History (Battle Museum), The Almonry, High Street, TN33 0EA,.
From Wikivoyage: Battle, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Chequers Inn
From Wikivoyage: Battle, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Battle
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 53 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 90 km · London Stansted (STN), 109 km
- Stations
- Battle railway station, 900 m · Crowhurst railway station, 3.4 km · Mountfield Halt railway station, 3.7 km
- London → Battle78 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Battle78 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Battle124 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Battle
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Battle. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAfter a checkered history ferries to Newhaven run to Dieppe (run by DFDS) throughout the year, taking 5 and 4 hours.
- Get inAlternatively, tickets can be bought at the two ports, the ferry port in Newhaven is on the East Quay, while in Dieppe it is the east of the main harbour, both are well signposted The ferries to Dieppe are some of the newest sailing in the English Channel, and due to the former troubled history of the route (and massive subsidies) this can be cheaper than Dover to Calais, also the view from the ferries of the Seven Sisters and Cuckmere Haven is beautiful.
- Go nextRunning from Eastbourne in the east all the way to Petersfield in the West, spanning three counties the South Downs Way is a popular walking path with numerous books and guides out there.
From Wikivoyage: East Sussex, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 01128 km
- 02361 km
- 03404 km
- 04639 km
- 05674 km
If you know how people move in Battle – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Battle
- Crowhurstvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, England3.2 km
- Sedlescombevillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.5 km
- Catsfieldvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.1 km
- Whatlingtonvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.1 km