Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in , built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel.
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  • Type: Bridge
  • Description: bascule and suspension bridge in London
  • Also known as: “Droichead an Túr”, “El Puente de la Torre”, “Kule Köprüsü”, “pont sur la Tamise”, “Ponte da torre”, “Puente de la Torre de Londres”, “Torre bridge”, “Torre Bridge”, “Tower Bridge di Londra”, “Tower brigde”, “Tower Brigde”, “Tower-Bridge”, “Towerbridge”, “Towerbrücke”, “Towerbrúin”, “Tura Ponto”, “Τάουερ Μπριτζ”, “Башенный мост”, “Кула мост”, “Мост Тауер”, “Тауэр Бридж”, “Թաուեր բրիջ”, “Թաուերի կամուրջ”, “גשר המגדל”, “גשר המצודה”, “גשר טאוור”, “טאואר ברידג‘”, “טאוור ברידג‘”, “برج الجسر”, “تاور بريدج”, “جسر برج لندن”, “타워 브릿지”, and “タワー・ブリッジ”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: The Tower of London and City Hall.

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, officially His Majesty's Royal… is situated 970 feet north of Tower Bridge.

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110 The Queen's Walk, formerly … is situated 800 feet west of Tower Bridge.

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Since Roman times, several crossings named London… is situated 2,900 feet west of Tower Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Butler’s Wharf and Aldgate.

Neighborhood
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Butler's Wharf is an historic building at Shad…

Quarter
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was a gate in the former defensive wall around the .

Suburb
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is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London, England.

Tower Bridge

Latitude
51.50554° or 51° 30′ 20″ north
Longitude
-0.07534° or 0° 4′ 31″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Established
June 30th, 1894
Open location code
9C3XGW4F+6V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 378541210
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­bridge
Geo­Names ID
2635595
Wiki­data ID
Q83125
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Tower Bridge” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Arabic: “جسر البرج”
  • Armenian: “Թաուեր կամուրջ”
  • Asturian: “Ponte de la Torre de Londres”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tauer körpüsü”
  • Basque: “Tower Bridge”
  • Belarusian: “Таўэрскі мост”
  • Bengali: “টাওয়ার সেতু”
  • Breton: “Tower Bridge”
  • Bulgarian: “Тауър Бридж”
  • Burmese: “တာဝါတံတား”
  • Catalan: “Pont de la Torre”
  • Central Kurdish: “پردی تاوەر”
  • 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”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوبرى البرج”
  • Esperanto: “Tower Bridge”
  • Esperanto: “Tura ponto”
  • Estonian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Finnish: “Tower Bridge”
  • French: “Tower Bridge”
  • Galician: “Ponte da Torre de Londres”
  • German: “Tower Bridge”
  • Greek: “Γέφυρα του Πύργου”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lùn-tûn Thap-khiâu”
  • Hebrew: “גשר מצודת לונדון”
  • Hindi: “टावर ब्रिज”
  • Hungarian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Icelandic: “Tower-brúin”
  • Indonesian: “Jembatan Menara”
  • Irish: “Droichead an Túir”
  • Italian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Japanese: “タワーブリッジ”
  • Kabiyè: “Tower Bridge Kondoloko”
  • Kabiyè: “Tower Kondoloko”
  • Kannada: “ಗೋಪುರ ಸೇತುವೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಟವರ್ ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜ್”
  • Kashmiri: “ٹاور کٔدٕل”
  • Kazakh: “Тауэр көпірі”
  • Kazakh: “Тауэрс көпірі”
  • Korean: “타워 브리지”
  • Latvian: “Tauera tilts”
  • Lithuanian: “Tauerio tiltas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tower Bridge”
  • Macedonian: “Тауер бриџ”
  • Malay: “Jambatan Menara”
  • Malayalam: “ടവർ ബ്രിഡ്ജ്”
  • Marathi: “टॉवर ब्रिज”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thah Kiô”
  • Mongolian: “Тауэр гүүр (Лондон)”
  • Mongolian: “Тауэр гүүр”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tower Bridge”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tower Bridge”
  • Norwegian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tower Bridge”
  • Panjabi: “ਟਾਵਰ ਬ੍ਰਿਜ”
  • Persian: “تاور بریج”
  • Polish: “Tower Bridge”
  • Portuguese: “Ponte da Torre”
  • Portuguese: “Tower Bridge”
  • Romanian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Russian: “Тауэрский мост”
  • Scots: “Tower Bridge”
  • Serbian: “Tauer bridž”
  • Serbian: “Тауербриџ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Sicilian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Slovak: “Tower Bridge”
  • Slovenian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Somali: “Tower Bridge”
  • Spanish: “puente de la Torre”
  • Spanish: “Puente de la Torre”
  • Swahili: “Daraja la Mnara”
  • Swedish: “Tower Bridge”
  • Tamil: “கோபுரப் பாலம்”
  • Telugu: “టవర్ వంతెన”
  • Thai: “ทาวเวอร์บริดจ์”
  • Thai: “สะพานทาวเวอร์”
  • Turkish: “Tower Bridge”
  • Turkish: “Tower Köprüsü”
  • Ukrainian: “Тауерський міст”
  • Urdu: “ٹاور برج”
  • Urdu: “ٹاوربرج”
  • Uzbek: “Tauer ko’prigi”
  • Uzbek: “Tauer koʻprigi”
  • Vietnamese: “Cầu Tháp Luân Đôn”
  • 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”

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