Blackfriars Bridge
Blackfriars Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames in London, between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge, carrying the A201 road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and Tate Modern.
Leicester Square
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
Tate Modern
Museum
Photo: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art. It forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. Tate Modern is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Blackfriars Bridge.
Blackfriars Railway Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Rodge500, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Blackfriars Railway Bridge is a railway bridge crossing the River Thames in London, between Blackfriars Bridge and the Millennium Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blackfriars and Bankside.
Blackfriars
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Blackfriars is in central London, specifically the south-west corner of the City of London.
Bankside
Quarter
Bankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark. Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames, 1.5 miles east of Charing Cross, running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance before London Bridge at St Mary Overie Dock.
Gabriel’s Wharf
Locality
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The South Bank is an entertainment and commercial area on the south bank of the River Thames, in the London Borough of Lambeth, central London, England.
Blackfriars Bridge
- Type: Bridge
- Description: road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames in London
- Categories: steel bridge, road bridge, arch bridge, tram bridge, and transportation
- Location: City of London, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.50981° or 51° 30′ 35″ northLongitude
-0.10438° or 0° 6′ 16″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Inception
November 6th, 1869Open location code
9C3XGV5W+W6OpenStreetMap ID
way 123464163OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeGeoNames ID
6619908Wikidata ID
Q880843
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Urdu—“Blackfriars Bridge” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Blekfrayars (körpü)”
- Azerbaijani: “Blekfrayars”
- Basque: “Blackfriars zubia”
- Bulgarian: “Блекфрайърс Бридж”
- Bulgarian: “Блекфрайърски мост”
- Central Kurdish: “پردی بلاکفرایەرز”
- Chinese: “黑衣修士桥”
- Chinese: “黑衣修士橋”
- Czech: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Danish: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Dutch: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوبرى بلاكفريارس”
- Estonian: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- French: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- German: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Hebrew: “גשר בלקפריירז”
- Hebrew: “גשר בלקפריירס”
- Irish: “Droichead Blackfriars”
- Italian: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Italian: “ponte dei Domenicani”
- Italian: “ponte dei Frati Neri”
- Italian: “Ponte dei Frati Neri”
- Japanese: “ブラックフライアーズ橋”
- Korean: “블랙프라이어스 교”
- Korean: “블랙프라이어스교”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Norwegian: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Persian: “پل بلکفرایرز”
- Polish: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Russian: “Блэкфрайарс (мост)”
- Russian: “Блэкфрайарс”
- Slovak: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Slovenian: “Most Blackfriars, London”
- Spanish: “puente de Blackfriars”
- Spanish: “Puente de Blackfriars”
- Swedish: “Blackfriars Bridge”
- Turkish: “Blackfriars Köprüsü”
- Ukrainian: “Блекфраєрс”
- Ukrainian: “Блекфрайерс”
- Urdu: “بلیک فرائرز پل”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as King’s Reach and Southwark.
Nearby Places
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