The villas of the Darenth valley were doubtless served by a road joining the London road at Dartford, but here again direct proof of its existence is not forthcoming. For a road across Strood Dock, see Country Houses s.v. Frindsbury.
   A very straight and suggestive line, followed by parish boundaries, runs southward from the Swale by Teynham and Green Street on Watling Street, and forms the western boundary of Lynsted and Doddington parishes.
   It is inconceivable that the roads discussed here were the only Roman roads in Kent; there were certainly others. It is likely enough that some of the native trackways were still in use, especially in the north and east of the county and in the Medway Valley, but in common with most of the vicinal ways they could not have lasted far into the dark ages, and traces of them have long since disappeared. Two roads or ‘stray ways’ over the Upchurch Marshes, now washed away, may possibly have had a Roman origin. One of them led from Bayford Point to Burntwick Marsh, and the other from Shoregate, near Ham Green, to Greenborough Marsh. Near the latter road the Rev. C. Eveleigh Woodruff many years ago discovered an urn half full of calcined bones, and a small cup of Samian ware, evidently an interment which may afford some evidence of the Roman origin of the road.²³
   For a possible road in the Medway Valley, see Topographical Index p. 153 s.v. Eccles.
   For roads in East Kent, the reader is referred to Arch. Cant. xxxviii, 75; xxxix, 91; for roads generally, G. Payne, Coil. Cant. (1893), 125-172; map accompanying Arch. Index Kent in Arch. li.
   ²³  Information from Rev. C. Eveleigh Woodruff.