England
Greater London
Tower Hamlets

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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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Tower of London and City Hall.

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, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of , is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the in , England. is situated 970 feet north of Tower Bridge.

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110 The Queen's Walk, formerly , is a building in , that served as the headquarters of the Greater London Authority between July 2002 and December 2021. is situated 800 feet west of Tower Bridge.

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The name "London Bridge" refers to several historic crossings that have spanned the between the and in since Roman times. 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 Thames on the south bank of the , just east of 's Tower Bridge, now housing luxury flats and restaurants.

Quarter
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was a gate in the former defensive wall around the . The gate gave its name to High Street, the first stretch of the A11 road, that takes that name as it passes through the ancient, extramural Portsoken Ward of the City of London.

Suburb
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is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London, England. It is in and part of the East End. is on the north bank of the , and was at one time a district with a strong maritime character.

Tower Bridge

Latitude
51.50554° or 51° 30′ 20″ north
Longitude
-0.07534° or 0° 4′ 31″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Inception
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: “برج الجسر”
  • Arabic: “تاور بريدج”
  • Arabic: “جسر البرج”
  • Arabic: “جسر برج لندن”
  • Armenian: “Թաուեր բրիջ”
  • Armenian: “Թաուեր կամուրջ”
  • Armenian: “Թաուերի 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”
  • Burmese: “တာဝါတံတား”
  • Catalan: “Pont de la Torre”
  • Catalan: “Tower Bridge”
  • Central Kurdish: “پردی تاوەر”
  • 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: “pont sur la Tamise”
  • French: “Tower Bridge”
  • French: “Tower brigde”
  • 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”
  • 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 Bridge”
  • Icelandic: “Tower-brúin”
  • Icelandic: “Towerbrúin”
  • Indonesian: “Jembatan Menara”
  • Indonesian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Irish: “Droichead an Túir”
  • Irish: “Droichead an Túr”
  • Italian: “Tower Bridge di Londra”
  • Italian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Japanese: “タワー・ブリッジ”
  • Japanese: “タワーブリッジ”
  • Kabiyè: “Tower Bridge Kondoloko”
  • Kabiyè: “Tower Kondoloko”
  • Kannada: “ಗೋಪುರ ಸೇತುವೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಟವರ್ ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜ್”
  • Kashmiri: “ٹاور برج”
  • Kashmiri: “ٹاور کٔدٕل”
  • Kazakh: “Тауэр көпірі”
  • 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”
  • Malay: “Jambatan Menara”
  • Malayalam: “Tower Bridge”
  • 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: “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: “Tauer bridž”
  • Serbian: “Tower Bridge”
  • Serbian: “Кула мост”
  • Serbian: “Мост Тауер”
  • Serbian: “Тауер бриџ”
  • Serbian: “Тауербриџ”
  • 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 de Londres”
  • Spanish: “puente de la Torre”
  • Spanish: “Puente de la Torre”
  • Spanish: “Tower Bridge”
  • Swahili: “Daraja la Mnara”
  • 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: “ٹاور برج”
  • Urdu: “ٹاوربرج”
  • Uzbek: “Tauer ko’prigi”
  • Uzbek: “Tauer koʻprigi”
  • 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”

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