Jurong Avenue (expunged)/Crescent/New Town (East/West) Street/Hill/Pier Road/Pier Way/Port Road/Road/Tracks/Town Hall Road/West Avenue /WestStreet

Jurong is probably derived from the Malay word jerung, which means a "voracious shark".Jurong Road was cut around 1852- 1853, during the time of John Thomson's tenure as Chief Surveyor. Many roads within Jurong Industrial Estate in the late 1960s and early 1970s drew inspiration from the nature of industrial activities in the estate and related aspects of industrialisation. For the local Chinese poplulation, Jurong was formerly called peng kang, a reference to a gambier plantation located int he area. After 1906, rubber plantations dominated the area- Bulim Estate, Lokyang Estate, Choo Keng Estate, Seng Toh Estate and Yunnan Estate.