Rotherhithe

Rotherhithe is a district of , England, and part of the . It is on the south bank of a bend in the Thames, facing , and on the north bank, with the to the east.
Wikipedia
Photo: Rob Kam, CC0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stave Hill and Rotherhithe railway station.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Russia Dock Woodland is a long narrow park in Rotherhithe, , created by the infilling of one of the former Surrey Commercial Docks. The woodland divides the Rotherhithe peninsula, running from in the North to the Dalton Cross area in the South.

Railway station
Photo: Prioryman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rotherhithe is a railway station on the Windrush line of the London Overground network; it is located on the southern bank of the at Rotherhithe, within the , England.

School
Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Surrey Quays and Cuckold’s Point.

Quarter
Photo: Secretlondon, Public domain.
is a largely residential area of Rotherhithe in south-east , 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 ; electorally, Surrey Docks is the eastern half of the peninsula.

Locality
Cuckold's Point, also Cuckold's Haven, is part of a sharp bend on the on the Rotherhithe peninsula, south-east , opposite the West India Docks and to the north of Columbia Wharf.

Locality
was a site on the near the shoreline at , , that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts.

Rotherhithe

Latitude
51.50029° or 51° 30′ 1″ north
Longitude
-0.04363° or 0° 2′ 37″ west
Population
13,700
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGX24+4G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27365037
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2639091
Wiki­data 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”
  • Turkish: “Rotherhithe”
  • Urdu: “روتھرہایتھ”
  • Welsh: “Rotherhithe”
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