The A2070 is a major
road
A road is a thoroughfare used primarily for movement of traffic. Roads differ from streets, whose primary use is local access. They also differ from stroads, which combine the features of streets and roads. Most modern roads are paved.
Th ...
running north–south through
Kent
Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...
from
Ashford to
Brenzett. It provides a strategic link between the
M20 motorway
The M20 is a Controlled-access highway, motorway in Kent, England. It follows on from the A20 road (England), A20 at Swanley, meeting the M25 motorway, M25, and continuing on to Folkestone, providing a link to the Channel Tunnel and the ports a ...
and the
A259
The A259 is a road on the south coast of England passing through Hampshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, and Kent, and is the longest Zone 2 A road in Great Britain. The main part of the road connects Brighton, Peacehaven, Eastbourne, Hastings, ...
, which runs along the
East Sussex
East Sussex is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Kent to the north-east, West Sussex to the west, Surrey to the north-west, and the English Channel to the south. The largest settlement ...
coast.
Creation
The route was created from the B2081 (Brenzett to Snave) and the north part of the B2070 (Snave to Ashford). The route originally passed through Brenzett, Snave,
Hamstreet and
Kingsnorth
Kingsnorth is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England. The civil parish adjoins the town of Ashford.
Features
The Greensand Way, a long distance footpath stretching from Haslemere in Surrey to Hamstreet in Ken ...
.
Upgrade
In the 1990s, the road was upgraded to a primary route with bypasses around these villages and extended east from Kingsnorth across the
East Stour river to connect to the M20 Junction 10. The route continues north of the M20 and terminates at a roundabout on the A28 in Kennington. In 2003 the road became part of the South Coast trunk road, a status previously held by the A259 from Brenzett to Folkestone.
M20 Junction 10A (Sevington Interchange) opened in late 2019 and includes a spur of the A2070.
The road has strategic importance to enable the growth of Ashford as a regional centre.
[Kent and Medway Structure Plan 2003 https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/Data/Cabinet/20030512/Agenda/$Kent%20and%20Medway%20Structure%20Plan%20-%20Deposit%20Draft.doc.pdf] The B2067 links with the A2070 at
Hamstreet.
References
Roads in Kent
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