Great Dover Street is a road in

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, south London, England. At the northwest end it joins

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and

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and there is a junction with Long Lane; Borough Underground station is at this location. At the southeast end is the

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roundabout and flyover. The road is part of the A2 and this continues south-east as the

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History

Great Dover Street's name simply indicates that it is an improved route out of the city to the south-east ports. It was created as a turnpike improvement in 1750 for traffic as a by-pass for the 'old' Kent Street/ Kent Road route out of the Borough of Southwark. This older route was renamed

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and it has close junctions with the new road at both ends. The new route was driven across the Trinity Village estate, belonging to

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. In 1963, £50,000 was found by police in a phone box in Great Dover Street. It was part of the proceeds from the Great Train Robbery and had been left by an intermediary acting for

Buster Edwards Ronald Christopher "Buster" Edwards (27 January 1931 – 28 November 1994) was a British criminal who was a member of the gang that committed the 1963 Great Train Robbery. He had also been a boxer, and owned a nightclub and a flower shop. Ea ...

Buildings

For several decades, Great Dover Street has been the site of mainly council tenement blocks. However, as south of the river living has become more popular, these have been supplemented on previously commercial and industrial sites on the route by private sector flats, broadening the residential nature of the area and creating a more varied mixed tenancy population. This has been reinforced by the development of two large university halls of residence: Great Dover Street Apartments, a hall of Residence belonging to

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, principally for the nearby

Guy's Hospital Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy in 1721, located in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the Kin ...

Campus

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and neighbouring this that for the

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House' containing some 1,000 bedsitting/ study units. The street has three small retail units and three pubs, The Black Horse, The Roebuck (dating from the original turnpike development although rebuilt 1892) and Dover Castle. The Black Horse Student bar-05-2016

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Streets in the London Borough of Southwark {{London-road-stub