Battle
Battle is a small town in the county of East Sussex, England, about 5 miles inland from Hastings and is the aptly-named site of the Battle of Hastings, fought between Harold, King of England and William, Duke of Normandy in 1066.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Battle Abbey and Senlac Hill.
Battle Abbey
Museum
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Battle Abbey is a partially ruined Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex, England. The abbey was built on the site of the Battle of Hastings and dedicated to St Martin of Tours.
Senlac Hill
Peak
Photo: Simon Carey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Battle railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paul Gillett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 down the line from London Charing Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sedlescombe and Vinehall Street.
Sedlescombe
Village
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sedlescombe is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. The village is on the B2244 road, about 6 miles north of Hastings. Sedlescombe is situated 2½ miles northeast of Battle.
Vinehall Street
Hamlet
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vinehall Street, is a linear settlement in the civil parishes of Mountfield and Whatlington, and the Rother district of East Sussex, England. Vinehall School is situated in Vinehill Street. Vinehall Street is situated 3 miles north of Battle.
Battle
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Rother District, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.9173° or 50° 55′ 2″ northLongitude
0.4839° or 0° 29′ 2″ eastPopulation
6,590Elevation
272 feet (83 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BTEOpen location code
9F22WF8M+WHOpenStreetMap ID
node 713269OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Battle” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բաթլ (Արևելյան Սասեքս)”
- Armenian: “Բաթլ”
- Asturian: “Battle”
- Basque: “battle”
- Basque: “Battle”
- Bengali: “ব্যাটল”
- Bulgarian: “Батъл”
- Catalan: “Battle”
- Cebuano: “Battle”
- Chinese: “巴图”
- Chinese: “巴圖”
- Chinese: “巴特尔”
- Czech: “Battle”
- Dutch: “Battle”
- Esperanto: “Batalo”
- Finnish: “Battle”
- French: “Battle”
- Galician: “Battle”
- German: “Battle”
- Gujarati: “બેટલ”
- Hebrew: “באטל”
- Irish: “Battle”
- Italian: “Battle”
- Japanese: “バトル”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾಟಲ್”
- Korean: “배틀”
- Lithuanian: “Batlas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Battle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Battle i East Sussex”
- Norwegian: “Battle”
- Persian: “باتل، ساسکس شرقی”
- Polish: “Battle”
- Portuguese: “Battle”
- Romanian: “Battle, East Sussex”
- Russian: “Баттл”
- Slovak: “Battle”
- Slovenian: “Battle, Anglija”
- South Azerbaijani: “باتل، دوغو ساسکس”
- Spanish: “Battle”
- Swedish: “Battle, East Sussex”
- Swedish: “Battle”
- Tamil: “பாட்டில்”
- Telugu: “బ్యాటిల్”
- Turkish: “Battle, Doğu Sussex”
- Turkish: “Battle, East Sussex”
- Urdu: “بیٹل، مشرقی سسیکس”
- Urdu: “بیٹل”
- Volapük: “Battle”
- Welsh: “Battle, Dwyrain Sussex”
- Welsh: “Battle”
- “Battle”
- “Battle, Sussex Tlāpcopa”
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