Kenton Road is a main road in the
London Borough of Harrow
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and the
London Borough of Brent. It lies in the areas of
Harrow and
Kenton.
Route and landmarks
Its eastern end is the border of
Kenton in
Middlesex
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and
Kingsbury Kingsbury may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Kingsbury, London, a district of northwest London in the borough of Brent
** Kingsbury tube station, London Underground station
* Kingsbury, Warwickshire, a village and civil parish in Warwickshi ...
(in NW9) in
London
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. Kenton Road is the A4006, apart from a short stretch west of Northwick Park
roundabout, which is a small part of the
A404. The road east of the Kenton
Methodist
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Church originally followed the route of what is now Woodgrange Avenue and was a continuation of Kenton Lane before being upgraded, re-positioned and renamed in the early 20th century as an eastward extension of the original Kenton Road.
On the north side of the road, almost opposite
Kenton station is the Traveller's Rest
pub
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. Approximately further along the A4006, also on the north side of the road, at the junction with St Leonard's Avenue, is the parish church of St Mary-the-Virgin, Kenton, built in 1935-1936 by the architect Harold Gibbons and a local firm of builders, Melsom & Rosier. Approximately further on, on the south side of the Kenton Road is All Saints Catholic Church, built in 1963. About another further on is the Greek Orthodox Church of
St Panteleimon. Originally a mission church of the Church of England parish, it was acquired in recent years by the Greek community, which has replaced it with a traditional Greek Basilica complete with bronze dome (2011).
References
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Streets in the London Borough of Brent
Streets in the London Borough of Harrow
Kenton, London