Old Kent Road 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 (Watling Street). It is now part of the A2, a major road from London to Dover. The road was important in Roman times linking London to the coast at Richborough and Dover via Canterbury. It was a route for pilgrims in the Middle Ages as portrayed in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, when Old Kent Road
Old Kent Road of Coopers Road. The station was demolished for redevelopment in 2014 and reopened the following year. The Old Kent Road Baths were built in 1906. According to "Modern Sanitation", they were the only public baths in London with Turkish bath facilities at the time. The baths were designed to include two swimming pools, each measuring by . In 1913-4, the baths were used by 188,336 private bathers, 14,687 of which used its Russian, Turkish, or special electric baths. The 1923 Municipal Year Book noted the "great success" of Turkish and Russian baths. Unlike many places in London, the Old Kent