Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge crossing the River Thames in London, between Blackfriars Bridge and Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and London Eye.
Leicester Square
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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.
London Eye
Ferris wheel
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The London Eye, originally the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually. London Eye is situated 2,000 feet south of Waterloo Bridge.
Somerset House
Arts center
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Somerset House is a large neoclassical building complex situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge. Somerset House is situated 880 feet north of Waterloo Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Bank and Gabriel’s Wharf.
South Bank
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The South Bank is on a sharp 90° bend of the Thames in central London and one of the city's cultural centres. It is a small area but it contains many artistic and creative sites, as well as an eclectic range of other attractions, boutique shopping and trendy food and drink places.
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.
Covent Garden
Photo: Hamster28, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Covent Garden is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of London, and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.
Waterloo Bridge
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge in London, England, UK
- Categories: box girder bridge, girder bridge, road bridge, Zone 3 A road, and transportation
- Location: Lambeth, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.50855° or 51° 30′ 31″ northLongitude
-0.11685° or 0° 7′ 1″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Inception
March 11th, 1942Open location code
9C3XGV5M+C7OpenStreetMap ID
way 208169532OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeGeoNames ID
6619910Wikidata ID
Q501003
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Waterloo Bridge” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جسر ووترلو”
- Armenian: “Վաթեռլոո”
- Azerbaijani: “Vaterloo körpüsü”
- Basque: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Basque: “Waterloo zubia”
- Belarusian: “Мост Ватэрлоа”
- Bulgarian: “Ватерло”
- Bulgarian: “Уотърлу Бридж”
- Catalan: “Pont de Waterloo”
- Central Kurdish: “پردی وۆتەرلوو، ئینگلتەرا”
- Chinese: “滑铁卢桥”
- Chinese: “滑鐵盧橋”
- Chuvash: “Ватерлоо”
- Czech: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Danish: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Dutch: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوبرى واترلو”
- Esperanto: “Ponto Vaterlo”
- Finnish: “Waterloon silta”
- French: “Waterloo Bridge”
- German: “Strand Bridge”
- German: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Hebrew: “גשר ווטרלו”
- Irish: “Droichead Waterloo”
- Italian: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Japanese: “ウォータールー・ブリッジ”
- Japanese: “ウォータールー橋”
- Kazakh: “Ватерлоо көпірі”
- Korean: “워털루 교”
- Korean: “워털루교”
- Macedonian: “Ватерло”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Norwegian: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Persian: “پل واترلو”
- Polish: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Portuguese: “Ponte de Waterloo”
- Russian: “Ватерлоо”
- Russian: “Мост Ватерлоо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waterloo”
- Slovak: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Slovenian: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Spanish: “puente de Waterloo”
- Spanish: “Puente de Waterloo”
- Swedish: “Waterloo Bridge”
- Turkish: “Waterloo Köprüsü”
- Ukrainian: “Ватерлоо”
- Urdu: “واٹرلو بریج”
- Welsh: “Pont Waterloo, Llundain”
- Welsh: “Pont Waterloo”
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