Kent, Gravesend: Suburban streets and an Ancient Trackway

Starting at the Echo Pharmacy which is next to Oakfield Health Centre. Turn right out of the car park and walk along the pavement towards the yellow posts and gate into Windsor Road.  Continue straight ahead to the T-Junction.

[1] At the T Junction at the end of Windsor Road turn Left. You are now in Singlewell Road.  

(A) Note the interesting house (number 288) on your left with Art-Deco features

Continue along until the first turning on your right (Harman Avenue). Cross the road at the Island  Caution, this road can be busy.

[2]  After crossing at the Island, walk to the right and then turn left immediately into Harman Avenue, walk  along the pavement with the hedge to the Mid Kent Golf Course (B) on your right. 

[3] Turn Left into Golf Links Avenue,  and continue along the Avenue, up hill slightly to the end. (Take care at road junctions)

[4] At the junction turn Left into Old Watling Street (C) keeping on the pavement. Ignore the gate across the road  into the linier path beside the A2 and continue along the pavement keeping the hedge to the right. (caution pavement is uneven)

(C)Watling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Britons mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans.

[5] Take the next turning on the left beside a large Tudor styled house. Continue along this road (Singlewell Road), passing the entrance  into a park (D) on your right (marked by a large beech tree),  re-crossing the road at the traffic island, where you crossed it  at [1]. Care crossing the road. You will eventually reach Windsor Road on your Right. 

[6] At Windsor road turn right and retrace your steps back to the Echo Pharmacy.

(C) Watling Street:. The Romans later paved the route, part of which is identified on the Antonine Itinerary as Iter III: "Item a Londinio ad portum Dubris" - from London to the port of Dover. Its route is now covered by the A2 road from Dover to London, and the A5 road from London to Wroxeter. The name derives from the Old English Wæcelinga Stræt. Originally the word "street" simply meant a paved road (Latin: "via strata"), and did not have the modern association with populated areas.

(D) There is a nice open area through the gate on the Right of the route.  There are seats, and trim trail and at the far end of the park area past the trees there are playing fields.