Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel.Photo: Barcex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
The Tower of London
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The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. The Tower of London is situated 300 metres north of Tower Bridge.
City Hall
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City Hall is a building in Southwark, London, which previously served as the headquarters of the Greater London Authority between July 2002 and December 2021. City Hall is situated 240 metres west of Tower Bridge.
London Bridge
Several bridges named London Bridge have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London. London Bridge is situated 1 km west of Tower Bridge.Localities in the Area
Butler's Wharf
Photo: Gürkan Sengün, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Butler's Wharf is an English historic building at Shad Thames on the south bank of the River Thames, just east of London's Tower Bridge, now housing luxury flats and restaurants.
Wapping
Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Wapping is a district in East London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Aldgate
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Aldgate was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London.
Tower Bridge
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: bascule and suspension bridge in London
- Categories: bascule bridge, steel bridge, road bridge, suspension bridge, tourism, historic site and monument
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.50552° or 51° 30' 20" northLongitude
-0.07537° or 0° 4' 31" westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open Location Code
9C3XGW4F+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 2079674503OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=monumentOpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
2635595Wikidata ID
Q83125Tower Bridge Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Albanian: Tower Bridge
- Arabic: Tore nga Tulay
- Arabic: برج الجسر
- Arabic: تاور بريدج
- Arabic: جسر البرج
- Arabic: جسر برج لندن
- Armenian: Թաուեր բրիջ
- Armenian: Թաուերի կամուրջ
- Armenian: Թաուեր կամուրջ
- Asturian: Ponte de la Torre de Londres
- Azerbaijani: Tauer körpüsü
- Basque: Tower Bridge
- Basque: Tower Brigde
- Belarusian: Таўэрскі мост
- Bengali: টাওয়ার সেতু
- Breton: Tower Bridge
- Bulgarian: Тауър Бридж
- Catalan: Pont de la Torre
- Catalan: Tower Bridge
- Chinese: Thah Kiô
- Chinese: 伦敦塔桥
- Chinese: 倫敦塔橋
- Chinese: 塔桥
- Chuvash: Тауэр кĕперĕ
- Croatian: Tower Bridge
- Czech: Tower Bridge
- Danish: Tower Bridge
- Dimli (individual language): Tower Bridge
- Dutch: Tower Bridge
- Dutch: Towerbridge
- Egyptian Arabic: كوبرى البرج
- Esperanto: Tower Bridge
- Esperanto: Tura Ponto
- Esperanto: Tura ponto
- Estonian: Tower Bridge
- Finnish: Tower Bridge
- French: Tower Bridge
- French: Tower brigde
- French: pont sur la Tamise
- Galician: Ponte da Torre de Londres
- Galician: Torre Bridge
- Galician: Tower Bridge
- German: Tower Bridge
- German: Towerbridge
- German: Towerbrücke
- Greek: Γέφυρα του Πύργου
- Greek: Τάουερ Μπριτζ
- Hakka Chinese: Lùn-tûn Thap-khiâu
- Hausa: Lùn-tûn Thap-khiâu
- Hebrew: גשר המגדל
- Hebrew: גשר המצודה
- Hebrew: גשר טאוור
- Hebrew: גשר מצודת לונדון
- Hebrew: טאואר ברידג'
- Hebrew: טאוור ברידג'
- Hindi: टावर ब्रिज
- Hungarian: Tower Bridge
- Icelandic: Tower-brúin
- Icelandic: Tower Bridge
- Icelandic: Towerbrúin
- Indonesian: Jembatan Menara
- Indonesian: Tower Bridge
- Irish: Droichead an Túir
- Irish: Droichead an Túr
- Italian: Tower Bridge
- Italian: Tower Bridge di Londra
- Japanese: タワーブリッジ
- Japanese: タワー・ブリッジ
- Japanese: ロンドン橋
- Kabiyè: Tower Bridge Kondoloko
- Kannada: ಗೋಪುರ ಸೇತುವೆ
- Kazakh: Тауэрс көпірі
- Korean: 타워 브리지
- Korean: 타워 브릿지
- Latvian: Tauera tilts
- Latvian: Tower Bridge
- Lithuanian: Tauerio tiltas
- Lithuanian: Tower Bridge
- Luxembourgish: Tower Bridge
- Macedonian: Тауер Бриџ
- Macedonian: Тауер бриџ
- Malay: Jambatan Menara
- Malayalam: Tower Bridge
- Malayalam: ടവർ ബ്രിഡ്ജ്
- Marathi: टॉवर ब्रिज
- Min Nan Chinese: Thah Kiô
- Norwegian: Tower Bridge
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tower Bridge
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Tower Bridge
- Occitan (post 1500): Tower Bridge
- Panjabi: ਟਾਵਰ ਬ੍ਰਿਜ
- Persian: تاور بریج
- Polish: Tower Bridge
- Portuguese: Ponte da Torre
- Portuguese: Ponte da torre
- Portuguese: Torre bridge
- Portuguese: Tower Bridge
- Romanian: Tower Bridge
- Russian: Tower-Bridge
- Russian: Tower Bridge
- Russian: Башенный мост
- Russian: Тауэр Бридж
- Russian: Тауэрский мост
- Scots: Tower Bridge
- Serbian: Tower Bridge
- Serbian: Кула мост
- Serbian: Мост Тауер
- Serbian: Тауербриџ
- Serbian: Тауер бриџ
- Serbo-Croatian: Tower Bridge
- Sicilian: Tower Bridge
- Slovak: Tower Bridge
- Slovenian: Tower Bridge
- Somali: Tower Bridge
- Spanish: El Puente de la Torre
- Spanish: Puente de la Torre
- Spanish: Puente de la Torre de Londres
- Spanish: Tower Bridge
- Spanish: puente de la Torre
- Swedish: Tower Bridge
- Tamil: கோபுரப் பாலம்
- Telugu: టవర్ వంతెన
- Thai: ทาวเวอร์บริดจ์
- Thai: สะพานทาวเวอร์
- Turkish: Kule Köprüsü
- Turkish: Tower Bridge
- Turkish: Tower Köprüsü
- Ukrainian: Тауерський міст
- Urdu: ٹاوربرج
- Urdu: ٹاور برج
- Uzbek: Tauer ko'prigi
- Vietnamese: Cầu Tháp Luân Đôn
- Vietnamese: Tower Bridge
- Waray (Philippines): Tore nga Tulay
- Welsh: Tower Bridge, Llundain
- Welsh: Tower Bridge
- Western Panjabi: ٹاور برج
- Wu Chinese: 伦敦塔桥
- Yiddish: טורעם בריק
- Yue Chinese: 倫敦塔橋
- Tower Kondoloko
- Тауэр көпірі
- ಟವರ್ ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜ್
Other Places Named Tower Bridge
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Localities
- Upper PoolLocality
- Tower of LondonLocality
- Tower LibertyNeighbourhood
- The City QuaysNeighbourhood
- East SmithfieldNeighbourhood
- Hermitage WatersideNeighbourhood
Other Places
- Tower Bridge South TowerBuilding
- Tower Bridge North TowerBuilding
- Through BlueWork of art, 120 metres northeast
- Bridgemaster's Dining RoomBuilding, 140 metres south
- Southern GateBuilding, 140 metres south
- The VaultBar, 140 metres southwest
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Tower Bridge. Photo: Barcex, CC BY-SA 3.0.