Old Kent Road is a road in south London. Although the name appears as simply "Old Kent Road" on maps, it is usually referred to by Londoners as "the Old Kent Road". The Old Kent Road runs from the Bricklayer's Arms Roundabout, where it meets the New Kent Road, Tower Bridge Road, and Great Dover Street, to New Cross. It forms the boundary between Walworth and Peckham to the south and Bermondsey to the north. Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (939x475, 117 KB) Old Kent Road street sign outside The Dun Cow. Photograph taken by user:SoxFan April 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this... Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (939x475, 117 KB) Old Kent Road street sign outside The Dun Cow. Photograph taken by user:SoxFan April 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this... South London is the area of Greater London south of the River Thames. ... A Londoner is someone who inhabits or originates from London. ... Bricklayers Arms New Kent Road is a short road in south London. ... Tower Bridge Road is a road in Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark, UK, that runs north to south, and connects the Bricklayers Arms roundabout and flyover at its southern end to Tower Bridge and across the River Thames at its northern. ... New Cross is a district on the north tip of the London Borough of Lewisham. ... Walworth is a place in the London Borough of Southwark, between Camberwell and Elephant and Castle. ... Peckham is a place in the London Borough of Southwark about a mile (1. ... Bermondsey is a place in the London Borough of Southwark. ...

The Old Kent Road forms part of Watling Street, the Roman road which ran from Dover to Holyhead. Chaucer's pilgrims would probably have travelled along Watling Street on their way to Canterbury. Watling Street was a Roman road which went from Dover on the southeast coast of England and is generally believed to have terminated at Viroconium (now Wroxeter in Shropshire). ... Jump to: navigation, search A Roman road in Pompeii The Romans, for military, commercial and political reasons, became adept at constructing roads, which they called viae (plural of singular via). ... Map sources for Dover at grid reference TR315415 Arms of Dover Borough Council This article is about the English port town. ... A panoramic view of Holyhead taken from atop Holyhead Mountain, showing the harbours breakwater on the left Holyhead (Welsh: Caergybi, the fort of St. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chaucer: Illustration from Cassells History of England, circa 1902 Geoffrey Chaucer (c. ... Canterbury Tales Woodcut 1484 The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). ... St Peters St, Canterbury, from the West Gate, 1993 Canterbury (Latin: Duroverum) is a cathedral city in the county of Kent in southeast England. ...

Trivia

The street is famous as the cheapest property on the London Monopoly Board. Jump to: navigation, search Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. ...

Old Kent Road is the title of a song by London-based indie pop group Pipas. Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...

In The Little Princess Shirley Temple sings a song titled Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road, of which the chorus gives a good idea of the sort of language used in the area: Jump to: navigation, search Shirley Temple in Glad Rags to Riches Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928), later known as Shirley Temple Black, was an American film child actress (considered by many to be the most famous child actor in history) and diplomat. ...

"Wot cher!" all the neighbors cried

"Who yer gonna meet, Bill

Have yer bought the street, Bill"?

Laugh! I thought I should've died

Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road! [1]

Panoramic view of Old Kent Road at Dunton Road

Links

• Longest Streets in London