A28 road

A28
A28
	A299 near St Nicholas-at-Wade; A253 at Sarre; A2 in Canterbury; North Hastings (Baldslow)
Location
Country	Primary; destinations
Road network
	Roads in the United Kingdom; Motorways; A and B road zones;
	← A29
	← A29

The commemorative plaque for *Simone Weil Avenue*, a section of the A28 as it runs through Ashford

The A28 is a trunk road in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in south east England, connecting Margate, Canterbury, Ashford and Hastings.

Starting at the

cathedral city of Canterbury, before passing through the chalk hills of the North Downs via the gap cut by the River Stour, to the town of Ashford in the Vale of Holmesdale. From here, the A28 proceeds via the market town of Tenterden, to the East Sussex seaside town of Hastings, on the English Channel

.

Route

The A28 leaves Margate via the seaside resorts of

Ashford-Ramsgate railway line

and the Great Stour river on their combined route to Canterbury and then Ashford.

From Sarre, the road passes through the villages of

Thanington Without, where a sliproad linking to the A2 was completed in 2011.^[2]

The A28 passes between the North Downs via the villages of Chartham, Chilham, Godmersham and Bilting, to enter the Vale of Holmesdale. The road reaches surburbia again at Kennington, a suburb of Ashford, but the A28 then skirts around the town centre of Ashford on a section of dual carriageway, where it has a junction with the A20. In 1983, this section was named Simone Weil Avenue, in honour of the French philosopher and mystic who is buried nearby in Bybrook Cemetery. Bypassing the village of Great Chart, the road undulates in a general south-westward direction around the Kentish Weald via the villages of Bethersden and High Halden, to the market town of Tenterden.

The A28 continues via the villages of

River Rother and entering East Sussex via Northiam, beyond which the road becomes very winding. After the village of Brede there is a steep descent to bridge the river of the same name. Next is Westfield, just before the road climbs to terminate at its junction with the A21

just north of Hastings.

Improvements

Work has continued to improve the A28 into the 21st century. In 2011 a new slip road was completed to connect the road to the A2 in Canterbury.[2]

Junction list

County	Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
A255 – Town centre, Ramsgate, Broadstairs	North-eastern terminus; north-western terminus of A254
	M2 – Ramsgate, London, Broadstairs	Broadstairs signed north-east only
	A253 east – Ramsgate	Information signed north-east only; western terminus of A253
	A291 north (Sturry Hill) – Herne Bay	Southern terminus of A291
	A2 – Sandwich, Dover	Western terminus of A257
	A2 – Sandwich, Dover	16.3	26.2	Rheims Way ( A2 – London, Whitstable	South-eastern terminus of A290
	M2 – Dover, London	Grade–separated junction on A2
	A252 west – Charing, Challock	Challock signed south-west only; eastern terminus of A252
	Kennington	28.5	45.9	A2070 south (Willesborough Road) to M20 – Brenzett, Willesborough	Northern terminus of A2070
	Kennington	29.0	46.7	A2042 north (Faversham Road) – Challock, Faversham, Boughton Aluph	Boughton Aluph signed north-east only; Southern terminus of A2042
	A251 – Ashford, Charing, Lenham, Faversham	North-western terminus of A292
	A272 – Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Biddenden	Eastern terminus of A262
	A268 north-west – Hawkhurst, Sandhurst	Sandhurst signed south-west only; north-eastern terminus of A268 concurrency
A268 south-east (Whitebread Lane) – Rye	South-western terminus of A268 concurrency
A268 south-east (Whitebread Lane) – Rye	A21 (Ebden's Hill) – Hastings, London, Sevenoaks	South-western terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

51°10′39″N 0°54′19″E / 51.17759°N 0.90522°E / 51.17759; 0.90522

References

^ ^a ^b "17a Marine Gardens, Margate CT9 1XJ, UK to Military Fitness Academy, Canterbury CT1 3XT, United Kingdom to Newenden, Cranbrook, UK to Ebden's Hill, Hastings, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN37 7NA, UK". Google Maps. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
^ ^a ^b A28/A2 Slip Road built in Canterbury (Kent County Council) Archived 19 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine

[Mile-1] "17a Marine Gardens, Margate CT9 1XJ, UK to Military Fitness Academy, Canterbury CT1 3XT, United Kingdom to Newenden, Cranbrook, UK to Ebden's Hill, Hastings, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN37 7NA, UK". Google Maps. Retrieved 1 May 2023.

[slip-2] A28/A2 Slip Road built in Canterbury (Kent County Council) Archived 19 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine

[2]

[1]

v t e A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain road numbering scheme
	A2 A20 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25 A26 A27 A28 A29
	A200 A201 A202 A203 A205 A206 A209 A210 A212 A213 A214 A215 A217 A219 A226 A228 A229 A236 A240 A243 A249 A250 A254 A256 A258 A259 A264 A271 A272 A274 A278 A282 A286 A299
	A2020 A2022 A2030 A2070 A2100 A2199 A2214 A2216
List of A roads in Zone 2 List of B roads in Zone 2