Old Kent Road health centre and a number of primary and secondary schools. Officials have also suggested the development of a "green spine" of parks and green spaces along the mostly disused Surrey Canal. Old Kent Road is the first property square on the British Monopoly board, priced at £60 and forming the brown set along with the similarly working-class Whitechapel Road. It is the only square on the board in South London and south of the Thames. The road makes several appearances in literature. In Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield", the titular character runs down the road trying to escape from London to
Kent Road station abandoned, and the only one closed during the Metro-North era. No station structures remain at the site. Kent Road station The Kent Road station was a stop on the Danbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line. Penn Central opened the station in 1976 to serve Perkin-Elmer's headquarters in Wilton. It was located on the Wilton-Norwalk line, from Grand Central Terminal, south of a grade crossing with Kent Road. The New Haven Railroad previously had a station immediately north of the crossing. The station consisted of a low-level platform and a small shelter. Metro-North discontinued service here on January