The Story of Old Kent Road: The Roman Highway London Forgot
Forgotten London
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Beneath the tarmac of one of London's most overlooked streets lies a two-thousand-year-old Roman highway, physically confirmed for the first time in 2024. Old Kent Road is the cheapest square on the Monopoly board, but its real history encompasses Roman invasion, Boudica's revolt, Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims, Henry V's triumphant return from Agincourt, Victorian industrial revolution, the Blitz, and a fifteen-billion-pound regeneration plan now hanging in the balance. This is the story of the road London forgot.
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Colchester in the midlands is bad enough. but Wroxeter on the south coast takes some beating.
Sack the mapmaker, he's drunk.
The Story of Old Kent Road: The Roman Highway London Forgot
Forgotten London
14,577 views
Beneath the tarmac of one of London's most overlooked streets lies a two-thousand-year-old Roman highway, physically confirmed for the first time in 2024. Old Kent Road is the cheapest square on the Monopoly board, but its real history encompasses Roman invasion, Boudica's revolt, Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims, Henry V's triumphant return from Agincourt, Victorian industrial revolution, the Blitz, and a fifteen-billion-pound regeneration plan now hanging in the balance. This is the story of the road London forgot.