Old Kent Road
Old Kent Road is a major thoroughfare in South East London, England, passing through the London Borough of Southwark. It was originally part of an ancient trackway that was paved by the Romans and used by the Anglo-Saxons who named it Wæcelinga Stræt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arrows and Obelisk and Tower Bridge.
Arrows and Obelisk
Work of art
Photo: Alex McGregor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Arrows and Obelisk is a work of art.
Tower Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Barcex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel.
The Shard
Photo: Garry Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 72-storey mixed-use development supertall pyramid-shaped skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aylesbury Estate and Walworth.
Aylesbury Estate
Neighborhood
Photo: Mkimemia, Public domain.
The Aylesbury Estate is a large housing estate located in Walworth, South East London. The Aylesbury Estate contains 2,704 dwellings, spread over a number of different blocks and buildings, and was built between 1963 and 1977.
Walworth
Suburb
Photo: Secretlondon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Walworth is a district of South London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark. It adjoins Camberwell to the south and Elephant and Castle to the north, and is 1.9 miles south-east of Charing Cross.
Bermondsey
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bermondsey is a district in southeast London, part of the London Borough of Southwark, England, 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of Charing Cross. To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe and Deptford, to the south Walworth and Peckham, and to the north is Wapping across the River Thames.
Old Kent Road
- Type: Suburb
- Description: road in South East London, England
- Categories: road and locality
- Location: London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.48827° or 51° 29′ 18″ northLongitude
-0.07667° or 0° 4′ 36″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KNMOpen location code
9C3XFWQF+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 8821142047OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
7302128Wikidata ID
Q14820036
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Old Kent Road” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طريق كينت القديم”
- Chinese: “舊肯特路”
- French: “Old Kent Road”
- Japanese: “オールド・ケント・ロード”
- Japanese: “オールド・ケントロード”
- Polish: “Old Kent Road”
- Urdu: “اولڈ کینٹ روڈ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Old Kent Road”. Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.