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Navigation Notes

Route 2 on the map.

0.0 mi. 50.8197, -0.1367 At the roundabout on the waterfront, near Brighton Pier.

Take Old Steine, the A23.;

Expert Navigator Checkpoint: The Royal Albion Hotel will be on your left as you exit from the
r/bout. Look for the A23 signs on the road surface.

Follow the A23 keeping the park, Steine Gardens, on your right hand side and Brighton Pavilion
on your left.

As Brighton Pier falls behind you you’ll pass through a set of traffic lights and Victoria Park will
now be on your right. Keep the gardens on your right. Follow the A23 signs on the road surface.

0.6 mi 50.8268,-0.1354 At the traffic lights, take the right hand fork in the road on to Richmond
Rd, s/posted on the road surface “A270 / Lewes”.

Expert Navigator Checkpoint: St Peter’s Church will be prominent on your left just after that
turn.

At the traffic lights just past the church go str. ahd s/p “Lewes / Newhaven / A270”.

3.2 mi 50.8594, -0.0967 At the traffic lights, go str ahd s/posted “Lewes (A27)” then merge on to
the A27.

Geographical curiosity. If you look at the GPS co-ordinates above, you’ll see that the East co-
ordinate is -0.0967, but the next co-ordinate below is 0.0245. The minus sign has disappeared.
That means you have passed over the Prime Meridian, the north-south longitude line on which all
longitude lines are based, and have therefore moved from the geographical Western Hemisphere
to the Eastern Hemisphere.The Prime Meridian is set at the Greenwich Observatory in London.

Keep an eye out for an overbridge held up by a sweeping arch. Just beyond that is a more
conventional overbridge and the Prime Meridian is a few metres past that overbridge at
50.866711, 0.000000

For more on the Prime Meridian go to Wikipedia.

5.5 mi 50.8648, 0.0245 On the south eastern edge of Lewes, at Ashcombe Roundabout, at the
intersection with the A26, take the 1st exit to merge on to the A26 s/p “E Grinstead 21 / Tun Wells
23” There’s also a brown and white sign to Lewes Town Centre.

If you are of a historic inclination, and you can be bothered picking your way through the town,
you’ll pass the home of Anne of Cleves, another of the luckless ladies that loved and lost Henry
VIII. She was the fourth of his wives, but kept her head . . . the marriage was annulled after a few
months on the grounds of non-consummation. She went on to live a long life here in Lewes. Just
follow the “All Routes” signs through the town.

12.9 mi 50.9517, 0.0953 At the r/bout at the i/s with the A22, take the 1st exit on to the A22 s/p
“London / Uckfield / E Grinstead / A22 / Tun Wells (A26)” .

2.8 mi 50.9882, 0.0906 At Black Down Roundabout, take the 2nd exit back on to the A26 s/p
“Crowborough / Tun Wells / A26”.