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Tanjong Rhu Road is a primary access road in Tanjong Rhu, Singapore.

History

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Tanjong Rhu Road is named after the Malay wordsTanjong (English for coast) and rhu (based on pokok rhu, where rhu refers to the casuarina littoria species of casuarina tree). Whilst it is unknown when the road was called Tanjong Rhu, it is known that the earliest source of the road being called Tanjong Rhu Road comes from Emanuel Godiho de Erédia's map of Singapore published in 1604 where it was referred to as Tanjon Ru.

In 1828, as a part of the Jackson Plan

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