A202 road

A202 road
Major junctions
East end:	New Cross Gate
	A2 road A23 road A203 road A215 road A2215 road A3 road A302 road A3204 road A3212 road A3213 road
West end:	London Victoria station
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones

A202 crossing the Thames at Vauxhall Bridge. Two bus lanes a cycle lane and four lanes for general traffic, unusually the Southbound Bus lane is in the middle of the road.

The A202 is a primary A road in London. It runs from New Cross Gate to London Victoria station. The section forming part of the London Inner Ring Road is known as Vauxhall Bridge Road.

Camberwell New Road

Camberwell New Road is part of the A202. It goes from Camberwell to Kennington Oval. It was a turnpike road authorised by Act of Parliament in 1818,^[1] just after the construction in 1816 of the first Vauxhall Bridge, which it leads to, thus providing a second route from Camberwell to central London. Camberwell New Road is the longest Georgian Road in England.^[2] London Bus routes 36, 185 and 436 run the whole length of Camberwell New Road.

Queen's Road

Queen's Road extends eastwards from the end of Peckham High Street at the junctions of Consort Road and Meeting House Lane, to New Cross Road, a distance of approximately 1.5 km. Queen's Road was formerly known as Deptford Lane, and was renamed in honour of Queen Victoria, who often passed through it on her way to the Royal Naval School at New Cross.

The first branded cigarettes manufactured in Britain were made at a factory on Deptford Lane around 1859 by Robert Peacock Gloag. The brand, Sweet Threes, had a yellowish tissue paper filled with ground tobacco. Gloag had been paymaster to the Turkish forces during the Crimean War (1853–1856), where he is purported to have seen locals smoking. Gloags business on Deptford Lane is largely responsible for the popularity of the cigarette in England today. In 1926 Queen's Road saw the first holistic health centre in Britain, known as the Pioneer, later known as The Peckham Experiment. It was purposefully located in the area due to the deprived nature of the area, the low income and poor level of education of the population.

References

A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain road numbering scheme

	A2 A20 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25 A26 A27 A28 A29

	A200 A201 A202 A203 A205 A206 A209 A210 A212 A213 A214 A215 A217 A219 A222 A225 A226 A227 A228 A229 A230 A232 A234 A235 A236 A237 A240 A249 A250 A253 A254 A256 A258 A259 A264 A271 A272 A274 A278 A281 A282 A286 A299

	A2020 A2022 A2030 A2043 A2100 A2199 A2204 A2212 A2216 A2217

List of A roads in Zone 2 List of B roads in Zone 2

Coordinates: 51°29′N 0°07′W / 51.48°N 0.11°W / 51.48; -0.11

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