New Kent Road is a 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) road in the London Borough of Southwark. The road was created in 1751 when the Turnpike Trust upgraded a local footpath. This was done as part of the general road improvements associated with the creation of Westminster Bridge; in effect it was possible to travel from the West End/ Westminster to the south-east without having to go via the Borough of Southwark but could now cross St George's Fields to the junction of Newington Causeway and Newington Butts which is where New Kent Road starts at Elephant & Castle. The route runs eastward for a few hundred yards to the junction of Great Dover Street and Tower Bridge Road, known as Bricklayers Arms, where it joins the original route to the south-east Old Kent Road.
View from the western end of New Kent Road looking northwest towards Metro Central Heights, designed by Ernő Goldfinger in the 1960s.
Heygate Estate from New Kent Road
Two Caryatids sculpture by Henry Poole
St Matthews at the Elephant
Elephant and Castle is an area of South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark. The name also informally refers to much of Walworth and Newington, due to the proximity of the London Underground station of the same name. The name is derived from a local coaching inn.
The Elephant & Castle statue, salvaged from the Victorian pub of the same name
The crest of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers.
The "elephant and castle" from the 14th-century choir stalls in Chester Cathedral
The Elephant and Castle shopping centre, Hannibal House and The Coronet in September 2020
