Battle
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.
Getting to Battle
Trains from London Charing Cross run twice an hour via several south London stations and Tunbridge Wells, taking 90 min to Battle and continuing to St Leonards and Hastings.
Worth seeing
- 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,.
Where to eat
- 01Chequers Inn
Getting around Battle the local way
- 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. Last edited 2026-09.
Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Didier Descouens (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.