King's Highway or Kings Highway may refer to:
Roads
Australia
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Kings Highway (Australia)
Kings Highway is an interstate highway located within the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, Australia. The highway connects Canberra with Batemans Bay on the South Coast. It is designated route B52.
Route
West to east, it sta ...
, connecting Queanbeyan to Batemans Bay
Canada
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King's Highways, an alternative designation for the primary provincial highway system in Ontario
* King's Highway (French: ''
Chemin du Roy
The Chemin du Roy (; French for "King's Highway" or "King's Road") is a historic road along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. The road begins in Repentigny and extends almost eastward towards Quebec City, its eastern terminu ...
''), part of Route 138 in Quebec
United States
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Kings Highway (Brooklyn)
Kings Highway is a broad avenue that curves about the southern part of the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Its west end is at Bay Parkway (Brooklyn), Bay Parkway and 78th Street. East of Ocean Avenue (Brooklyn), Ocean Avenue, the street ...
, a broad avenue passing through mostly commercial areas in the southern part of Brooklyn
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King's Highway (Charleston to Boston)
The King's Highway was a roughly road laid out from 1650 to 1735 in the Thirteen Colonies, American colonies. It was built on the order of Charles II of England, who directed his colonial governors to link Charleston, South Carolina, and Boston, ...
, United States
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U.S. Route 17 Business (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina)
* (Old) King's Highway (
Massachusetts Route 6A
Massachusetts Route 6A is the state road for two sections formerly known as U.S. Route 6 (US 6) on Cape Cod. Most of Route 6A is also known as the Old King's Highway. Combining the 2 major sections (and a "silent" concurrency with US& ...
), Cape Cod, MA
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Old King's Highway Historic District, Barnstable, MA
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Brewster Old King's Highway Historic District, Brewster, MA
* (Old) Kings Highway (
History of Darien, Connecticut), Darien, CT
* Kings Highway (
Virginia State Route 3
Virginia State Route 3 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia that extends from the town of Culpeper, Virginia, Culpeper south and eastwardly to Gloucester, Virginia, Gloucester in Virginia's Middle Peninsula region. For many ...
), central Virginia
* Kings Highway (
Virginia State Route 125
State Route 125 (SR 125) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known as Kings Highway, the state highway has two sections that run a total of from Virginia State Route 10, SR 10 and Virginia State Route 32, SR 32 at Chuck ...
), Suffolk, Virginia
* Kings Highway (
New Jersey Route 27
Route 27 is a state highway in New Jersey, United States. It runs from U.S. Route 206 (US 206) in Princeton, Mercer County, northeast to an interchange with McCarter Highway ( Route 21) and Broad Street in Newark, Essex County. ...
), northern New Jersey
* Kings Highway (today
County Route 13 (Rockland County, New York)), a major route through Valley Cottage, New York
* Kings Highway (today
Farm to Market Road 989), in Bowie County, Texas
* Kings Highway (today
Pennsylvania Route 143), in eastern Pennsylvania
* Kings Highway (today
U.S. Route 61), the trail following the Mississippi River northward from New Orleans, Louisiana, through New Madrid, Sikeston, Cape Girardeau, Perryville, and St. Louis, Missouri
Historical roads
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King's Highway (ancient)
The King's Highway was a trade route of vital importance in the ancient Near East, connecting Africa with Mesopotamia. It ran from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba, then turned northward across Transjordan, to Damascus and the Euphrat ...
, an ancient trade route from Egypt to Syria mentioned in the Bible
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El Camino Real (California)
El Camino Real (Spanish language, Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta Calif ...
(lit. "the King's Road"), a commemorative route
Places
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Kings Highway Conservation District, Dallas, Texas, a neighborhood
Railway stations
*New York City Subway stations:
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Kings Highway (BMT Brighton Line) at East 16th Street; serving the
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Kings Highway (IND Culver Line) at McDonald Avenue; serving the
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Kings Highway (BMT Sea Beach Line) at West 8th Street; serving the
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Church Street station (MBTA), known as Kings Highway during planning
Films and songs
* ''
The King's Highway'', a 1927 British film
* "Kings Highway," a song on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album ''
Into the Great Wide Open
''Into the Great Wide Open'' is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Released in July 1991, it was the band's last with MCA Records. The album was the second that Petty produced with Jeff Lynne, followin ...
''
* "King's Highway," a song by Kenny Wayne Shepherd album ''
Trouble Is...''
See also
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King's Road (disambiguation)
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Royal Road (disambiguation)
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El Camino Real (disambiguation)
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Kingsway (disambiguation)
Kingsway or King's Way may refer to:
Places Australia
*Kingsway, Glen Waverley, a shopping strip in Melbourne, Victoria
Canada
*Kingsway (Edmonton), a road in Edmonton, Alberta (aka Kingsway Avenue)
*Kingsway (Vancouver), a road in Vancouver, B ...
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