Residency Road ( ml, റെസിഡന്‍സി റോഡ്‌) is one of the major city roads in city of Kollam,

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. The 1.6 km road starts at

Chinnakada Chinnakada or Chinnakkada is considered as the heart of the city of Kollam in Kerala, India. Chinnakada is a busy junction where 5 city roads and one National highway interconnect at a traffic roundabout. The city's symbolic clock tower is loca ...

in south and ends at British Residency(Asramam Guest House) in north. The road got the name ''Residency Road'' as it ends at

British Residency The British Residency (), also known as the Government Guest House or Residency Bungalow, is a two-storeyed palace situated at Asramam in the city of Kollam in the Indian state of Kerala. It lies close to the site of the old Kollam Airport situa ...

in the city.

History

Residency road was an important city road in Kollam. The name ''Residency road'' was actually given to a road that has connected Kappalandi Mukku with

, till 2010. Later in 2010, City corporation of Kollam has inaugurated

Asramam Link Road The Asramam Link Road is an important four-lane city road in Kollam in the Indian state of Kerala. This road was formerly known as '' Airport Road'' or ''Aerodrome Road'' as it was the connection road to Kollam Airport, the one and only airport i ...

and they have renamed the Kappalandi Mukku- Asramam section of road as '' Link Road'' and they re-aligned Residency road into current form.

Major public/private institutions in Residency road

* LIC city branch * Pulimootil Silks * The Vaidya Hotel * QRS Retail * Sony Center * Supplyco * Quilon Co-operative Urban Bank * Karnataka Bank

References

Roads in Kollam {{India-road-stub