A259 road

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The A259 is a major road in England, running along the south coast, with part of the A259 running almost parallel to the A27 road. The A259 runs east from just east of Havant in Hampshire, into Sussex via Chichester, Bognor Regis, Littlehampton, Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Portslade, Hove, Brighton, Peacehaven, Newhaven, Seaford, Eastbourne, Pevensey, Bexhill, St Leonards, Hastings and Rye. Over the border in Kent, it continues through New Romney and Hythe to terminate at Folkestone.

Between Pevensey and Brenzett (where the A259 meets the A2070), the A259 becomes a section of the South Coast Trunk Road. Unusually for a trunk road, the A259 is almost entirely single-carriageway, with only a 1 km stretch of urban dual carriageway in Bexhill. Bypasses have been proposed for virtually all of the settlements on the trunk and former trunk sections, but all have been shelved.

Of note is that the road passes through the town of Winchelsea, England's first new town. The section between Brenzett and Folkestone was de-trunked in 2003 (i.e. removed trunk road status), and thus reverted to the control of Kent County Council. The A2070 now takes over the South Coast Trunk Road for its final section to the M20 motorway from Brenzett to Hamstreet and Ashford, Kent.

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