Barbican Estate

The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes and houses in central , England, within the .
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  • Type: Quarter with 4,000 residents
  • Description: publicly-owned district in the City of London
  • Also known as: “Barbican”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Barbican Arts Centre.

University
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The is a music and drama school located in the , . Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and production arts.

Arts center
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The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the , England. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions.

Church
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St Paul's Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Paul in London, is an Anglican cathedral in , the seat of the Bishop of London.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Finsbury and Golden Lane Estate.

Suburb
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is a district of North-, forming the southeastern part of the . It borders the . The Manor of is first recorded as Vinisbir and means "manor of a man called Finn".

Neighborhood
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The is a 1950s council housing complex in the . It was built on the northern edge of the City, on a site devastated by bombing during the Second World War.

Neighborhood
is an area in the , situated immediately north of its border with the . The term is used to describe the area around .

Barbican Estate

Latitude
51.51946° or 51° 31′ 10″ north
Longitude
-0.09238° or 0° 5′ 33″ west
Population
4,000
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGW95+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7628489780
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
6690593
Wiki­data ID
Q2319878
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Barbican Estate” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Barbican Estate”
  • Arabic: “باربيكان”
  • Basque: “Barbican Estate”
  • Belarusian: “Барбікан”
  • Catalan: “Barbican Estate”
  • Cebuano: “Barbican”
  • Chinese: “巴比肯屋村”
  • Czech: “Barbican Estate”
  • Dutch: “Barbican Estate”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باربيكان استيت”
  • Esperanto: “Barbican Estate”
  • French: “Barbican Estate”
  • German: “Barbican Estate”
  • Hebrew: “ברביקן”
  • Hebrew: “מרכז ברביקן”
  • Indonesian: “Barbican Estate”
  • Irish: “Barbican Estate”
  • Italian: “Barbican Estate”
  • Japanese: “バービカン・エステート”
  • Japanese: “バービカン･エステート”
  • Japanese: “バービガン・エステイト”
  • Japanese: “バービカンエステート”
  • Korean: “바비칸 에스테이트”
  • Latin: “Barbacana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barbican”
  • Norwegian: “Barbican Estate”
  • Russian: “Барбикан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barbican naselje”
  • Slovak: “Barbican Estate”
  • Slovenian: “Barbican Estate”
  • Slovenian: “Barbican”
  • Spanish: “Barbican Estate”
  • Swedish: “Barbican (del av en befolkad plats i Storbritannien)”
  • Swedish: “Barbican”
  • Thai: “บาร์บิคันเอสเตท”
  • Turkish: “Barbican Estate”
  • Ukrainian: “Барбікан”
  • Urdu: “باربیکین اسٹیٹ”
  • “Barbican Estate”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Speed Garden and Barbican Theatre.

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