- A201 road
UK road routebox
road= A201
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direction= North - South
start=Kings Cross
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end=Elephant and Castle
construction-date= 1863
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junctions=The A201 is an
A road inLondon running fromKings Cross to theElephant and Castle .The route passes along Kings Cross Road, Farringdon Road, Farringdon Street, New Bridge Street,
Blackfriars Bridge , Blackfriars Road, London Road to the Elephant and Castle, and finallyNew Kent Road where it merges with the A2 road on theOld Kent Road .Kings Cross Road
Kings Cross Road runs south-east from
Pentonville Road to the junction with Penton Rise where it turns directly south before running south-east again to Calthorpe Street where it meets Farringdon Road.Farringdon Road
Farringdon Road is a road in
Central London . It goes south-east from King's Cross Road, crossing Rosebery Avenue, then turns south crossingClerkenwell Road before going pastFarringdon station .It finishes on the border between the
City of London , theLondon Borough of Camden and theLondon Borough of Islington , at an intersection withCharterhouse Street and Farringdon Street.Blackfriars Road
Blackfriars Road is a road in
Southwark , SE1. It runs betweenSt George's Circus at the southern end and Blackfriars Bridge over theRiver Thames at the northern end, leading to the City of London. Halfway up on the west side isSouthwark tube station , on the corner with The Cut. Opposite is "Palestra", the new building of theLondon Development Agency , at No. 197 [ [http://www.lda.gov.uk Home : London Development Agency ] ] .The road adjoins
Stamford Street andSouthwark Street at the northern end.London Road
London Road is a road in Southwark,
London SE1 , which connects St George's Circus (north-west) and the Elephant and Castle roundabout (south-east). To the east is the campus ofLondon South Bank University including the Technopark building and the London Road building, in a triangle formed by London Road,Borough Road andNewington Causeway . At the south-eastern end is theElephant and Castle tube station .The road is one-way for most traffic (flowing southeast), with a buses only lane heading in the opposite direction.
New Kent Road
New Kent Road was created in 1751 when the Turnpike Trust upgraded a local footpath. [ [http://www.southlondonguide.co.uk/walworth/history.htm Welcome to Walworth Guide ] ] The road starts at Elephant and Castle, and runs eastward for a few hundred yards to a junction with
Great Dover Street andTower Bridge Road (called the Bricklayer's Arms) before being renamed Old Kent Road (the A2).References
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