Cantonment Road, Singapore

Cantonment Road (Chinese: 广东明路) is a road located directly on the boundary between Bukit Merah and the Central Area PAs of Outram and the Downtown Core in Singapore.

The road starts at its junction with Outram Road, Eu Tong Sen Street and New Bridge Road in the north and ends at its junction with Keppel Road in the south. It is intersected by the arterial Neil Road.

Namesake roads include Cantonment Link, a one-way road which connects Keppel Road to Cantonment Road, and Cantonment Close.

The Police Cantonment Complex and The Pinnacle@Duxton, an award-winning 50-storey residential development in Singapore's city center, is located along the road.

The area of Cantonment Road was the site assigned by Stamford Raffles in 1819 in his directions to Major William Farquhar for barracks for the East India Company's Sepoy troops. The contingent of Indian sepoys stationed here had accompanied Raffles to Singapore and were asked to stay. Cantonment refers to a group of lodgings assigned to troops, hence the name of the road. British troops were "cantoned" here between 1824 and 1858. Prior to 1853, Outram Road was also part of Cantonment Road.

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