A26 road

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A26 road
Direction North east - South west
Start Maidstone
Primary
destinations1
Tunbridge Wells
Uckfield
Lewes
Brighton
End Newhaven
Roads joined A20 road
A21 road
> A22 road
A227 road
A228 road
A264 road
A267 road
A272 road
A2014 road
Notes
  1. Primary destinations as specified by the Department for Transport.

The A26 road is one of the two cross-country two-digit numbered roads in the southeast of England. It carries traffic from Maidstone in Kent in a generally south-westerly direction to Newhaven in East Sussex. It begins its journey up the Medway valley to Tonbridge; from there it crosses the Weald through Tunbridge Wells to Uckfield, and thence follows the River Ouse to its mouth at Newhaven, bypassing Lewes by means of a road tunnel. The road is almost entirely single carriageway resuting in congestion.

The road runs for a total distance of some 50 miles (80km) and provides access to the North Kent area and its industrial base with the ferry port of Newhaven. In consequence it has a large Heavy Goods Vehicle usage.