Mackinnon Road

Mackinnon Road is a town in Taita-Taveta County, Kenya, with a population of around 8000 in 1999, located between Mombasa and Voi.

It has a station on the railway between Mombasa and Nairobi and was probably named because it was a junction of the Uganda Railway and the Mackinnon ox cart road 90km/60 miles outside Mombasa. Construction of the road was started in 1890 by the British East Africa Company and the railway in 1896 by the British colonial administration. The road fell into disuse as the railway overtook it.