Rotherhithe
Rotherhithe is a district of South London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on the south bank of a bend in the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, with the Isle of Dogs to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stave Hill and Rotherhithe railway station.
Stave Hill
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Russia Dock Woodland is a long narrow park in Rotherhithe, London, created by the infilling of one of the former Surrey Commercial Docks. The woodland divides the Rotherhithe peninsula, running from Bacon's College in the North to the Dalton Cross area in the South.
Rotherhithe railway station
Railway station
Photo: Prioryman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rotherhithe is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located on the southern bank of the River Thames at Rotherhithe within the London Borough of Southwark.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Surrey Quays and Cuckold’s Point.
Surrey Quays
Quarter
Photo: Secretlondon, Public domain.
Surrey Quays is a largely residential area of Rotherhithe in south-east London, occupied until 1970 by the Surrey Commercial Docks. The precise boundaries of the area are somewhat amorphous, but it is generally considered to comprise the southern half of the Rotherhithe peninsula from Canada Water to South Dock; electorally, Surrey Docks is the eastern half of the peninsula.
Cuckold’s Point
Locality
Cuckold's Point, also Cuckold's Haven, is part of a sharp bend on the River Thames on the Rotherhithe peninsula, south-east London, opposite the West India Docks and to the north of Columbia Wharf.
Execution Dock
Locality
Execution Dock was a site on the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts.
Rotherhithe
- Type: Suburb with 13,700 residents
- Description: area of the London Borough of Southwark, England, UK
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50029° or 51° 30′ 1″ northLongitude
-0.04363° or 0° 2′ 37″ westPopulation
13,700Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
9C3XGX24+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 27365037OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2639091Wikidata ID
Q2886632
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rotherhithe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “روثرهايت”
- Arabic: “روذرهيث”
- Belarusian: “Ротэргайт”
- Catalan: “Rotherhithe”
- Chinese: “羅瑟希德”
- Dutch: “Rotherhithe”
- Esperanto: “Rotherhithe”
- French: “Rotherhithe”
- Galician: “Rotherhithe”
- German: “Rotherhithe”
- Greek: “Ρόδερχαϊθ”
- Hebrew: “רות’רהית‘”
- Hindi: “रॉदरहाइद”
- Iloko: “Rotherhithe”
- Irish: “Rotherhithe”
- Italian: “Rotherhithe”
- Japanese: “ロザーハイズ”
- Latin: “Nauticus Sinus”
- Low German: “Rotherhithe”
- Luxembourgish: “Rotherhithe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rotherhithe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rotherhithe”
- Persian: “رودرهاید”
- Polish: “Rotherhithe”
- Russian: “Ротерхит”
- Slovenian: “Rotherhithe”
- South Azerbaijani: “رودرهاید”
- Spanish: “Rotherhithe”
- Swedish: “Rotherhithe”
- Urdu: “روتھرہایتھ”
- Welsh: “Rotherhithe”
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