please empty your brain below
“how exciting that the B2027 starts on the B2026.”

Hmm. Playing somewhat fast and loose with ‘exciting’ here.
Edenbridge sounds lovely. Must get to Ashdown Forest this year.

David B | 03.01.26 - 7:39 a.m. | #

I'm surprised that you didn't mention Gallipot Street (0.4 miles from the B2026). There is there a very old and still excellent pub, with an interesting history, that built its own bus stops and persuaded the 291 to stop at them. Dame Judi Dench opened one of them.

dg writes: it's not on the B2026

Railwayman | 03.01.26 - 8:05 a.m. | #

It's a road I frequently drive the entire length of to get from the Bromley area to visit family in Lewes - it's usually the quickest as well as a scenic route to travel.

The intersection of the B269 and B2026 has always struck me as odd as you have to turn off both to continue on them. I am not sure why the B269 numbering did not continue directly southwards at this point, or the B2026 northwards.

The Queen's Head at Cowden Pound is an astonishing rural time-warp that is well worth a visit albeit it having limited opening hours. I am not sure the sign is still there, but it used to have a notice by the door stating 'no lager served here'.

I think the junction with the A264 used to be a crossroads but was later modified to be a staggered junction, perhaps for safety reasons.

The Duddleswell Tea Room on the Ashdown Forest section of the route is also something of an institution.

B2024 | 03.01.26 - 8:24 a.m. | #

That's some impressive forward planning

Herned | 03.01.26 - 9:40 a.m. | #

Metrobus bus route 236 runs along the B2026 from Westerham to Den Cross (excepting a deviation or two within Edenbridge).

Man of Kent | 03.01.26 - 10:06 a.m. | #

Agreed Herned.

I've previously walked along a bit of the B2026, having transferred between the two Edenbridge stations, returning from Hever Castle the "scenic way". As a result, I only saw the newer and duller end of Edenbridge.

Mikey C | 03.01.26 - 10:36 a.m. | #

This vocabulary expanding post has introduced to my first new word in 2026.

Rod | 03.01.26 - 11:15 a.m. | #

Sadly the Duddleswell Tea Room is no more - after refurbishment under new ownership, it has transmuted into Duddleswell Cafe and Lifestyle, a change in approach that many walkers find disappointing - but of course other opinions are available.

Jonalot | 03.01.26 - 12:37 p.m. | #

The demise of the Tea Room is a long term trend, much to be deplored.

David B | 03.01.26 - 1:44 p.m. | #

Well, if this turns out to be the final Road of the Year post, it ended with a cracker!

Cornish Cockney | 03.01.26 - 2:14 p.m. | #

You'd better not let my aunt hear you say that the B2027 passes nowhere very interesting, given that she lived just off it for a fair chunk of her life!

We re-homed her piano via the B2026, and please don't tell her that either.

miker | 03.01.26 - 2:41 p.m. | #

That modern sign at Camp Hill is quite unhelpful. No mention of Maresfield or Edenbridge althoulgh they both feature on next fingerposts encountered both ways. Also southbound B2026 loses its number, just (A22), although this direction is coming away from the A22 anyway.

kev | 03.01.26 - 5:57 p.m. | #

It's great to read your post about the B2026. I was already looking forward to next year's post about a road even nearer to me, so I was distraught to read the news about that. Please reconsider your decision over the next 362 days.

DavidC | 03.01.26 - 6:42 p.m. | #

"...the B2027 starts on the B2026."

Next year's New Year's Eve party location sorted.

Greg | 04.01.26 - 12:29 a.m. | #

There was once a third railway station along the B2026 - at Hartfield, where the road goes over a bridge alongside the former station. The railway line there is now part of the Forest Way footpath and the station building survives as a playschool/kindergarten.

Alan S | 04.01.26 - 8:39 a.m. | #

Ah,there it is.

Randy Jones | 05.01.26 - 2:45 p.m. | #











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