Old Kent Road

Old Kent Road is a road in South East London, England and forms part of Watling Street, the Roman road which ran from Dover to Holyhead. Chaucer's pilgrims travelled along this route from London and Southwark on their way to Canterbury. At what is the junction with the presently named Shornecliff Road was the bridge crossing of 'St Thomas-a-Waterings' which marked a break in the Archbishop of Canterbury's authority of the nearby manors. As such it was a place of execution for criminals whose bodies were left in gibbets at this spot. The fate of burning to death religious dissenters, both Catholic and Protestant, also occurred here. The landmark pub, nearby, the Thomas a Becket, derives its name from this connection.


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