New Road
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- This article is about a road in London. For the cricket ground, see New Road, Worcester.
New Road is the historical name of what is now the A501 in London, England.
Construction on the New Road from Paddington to Islington began in 1756 [1] to relieve congestion in the built-up area of London. At that time the districts of Marylebone, Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury were on the northern edge of the city, and only the southern parts of them had been built up. The New Road ran through the fields to the north of these three neighbourhoods.
The road is now widely regarded as being in central London, and it is one of the busiest main roads in the city. It runs from Edgware Road in the west to The Angel, Islington, in the east. The western section between Edgware Road and Great Portland Street is known as Marylebone Road; the central section between Great Portland Street and King's Cross is known as Euston Road; and the eastern section from King's Cross to The Angel is called Pentonville Road.
City Road was constructed soon after to continue the route eastwards to the northern edge of the City of London.
