NORTH EAST KENT

A major road for South-East England, it connects London with the English Channel port of Dover in Kent. 
The route has always been important as a connection between the British capital city of London and sea trade routes to Continental Europe, originally called Dover Road.
The route of the current A2 follows a similar road to the ancient Celtic trackway and was a route of importance for the Romans, linking London with Canterbury and the three Channel ports of Rutupiae (now Richborough), Dubris (now Dover), and Portus Lemanis (in modern Lympne)
It had river crossings at Rochester over the River Medway, Dartford (River Darent), and Crayford (River Cray). 
The Romans paved the road and constructed the first Rochester Bridge across the Medway.
Romans had access to London via London Bridge, the first constructed by the Romans in AD 50. The road was known as 'Item a Londinio ad portum Dubris' and appeared in the Antonine Itinerary, a contemporary map of Roman roads in Britain.
In Anglo-Saxon times, the road became part of a longer road known as Wæcelinga Stræt ('Watling Street' in modern English).
In 1920, in the Great Britain road numbering scheme, the road was renamed the A2. 
Eccentric millionaire Count Louis Vorrow Zborowski rented and lived at Higham Estate in Bridge in Kent 
His father, William Eliot Morris Zborowski, was also a racing driver and died in a racing crash in 1903, at La Turbie Hillclimb in Nice, France. 
In 1910, his mother, a wealthy American heiress, bought the estate.
On his Mothers death in 1911, Louis inherited the estate, aged just 16 years old.
He became a racing driver and automobile engineer, becoming an early patron of Aston Martin and raced for them at Brooklands and in the 1922 French Grand Prix.
Zborowski designed and built four Chitty Bang Bang race cars in the stables at Higham Park, assisted by his engineer and co-driver, Capt. Clive Gallop.
Gallop became a racing engineer for the "Bentley Boys". He raced in the Indy 500 and was tragically killed during the Italian Grand Prix in 1924 while driving a different Mercedes.
Zborowski could always see and hear testing his machinery on Kent's village roads, especially the A2 route. 
The cars were said to be so loud that Canterbury reportedly passed a by-law prohibiting them from entering within the city walls. 
His famous creations inspired Ian Fleming's classic children's book with a flying car of the same name.
Interesting fact: 
Chitty 4 (known as the Higham Special) was Louis Zborowski's largest car and still wasn't completed when he died. 
It was purchased from his estate by J.G. Parry-Thomas for the sum of £125, equal to £7,182 today.
Parry-Thomas rechristened the car 'Babs' and rebuilt it with four Zenith carburetors and his design of pistons.  
In April 1926, Parry-Thomas used the car to win the Land speed record at 171.02 mph (273.6 km/h). The cars won numerous races in the 1920s.
He died in the vehicle in a later attempt on 3rd March 1927. 
Babs was buried at Pendine Sands in Wales but was later recovered and restored and is now on display at the Pendine Museum of Speed during the Summer and Brooklands Museum during the winter.
HAUNTINGS
People have reported seeing and hearing Zborowskis ghostly famous racing car driving through the Kent countryside around the Paxrixbourne and Bridge area at White Hill, which connects Challock to the A28 near Wye on the old A2, before turning back into the entrance of the Higham Estate.