England
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London Borough of Southwark

Elephant and Castle

Elephant and Castle is an area of , England, in the . The name also informally refers to much of and , due to the proximity of the .
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: area in South London, England
  • Also known as: “E&C” and “Elephant & Castle”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elephant & Castle tube station and Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Metro station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elephant & Castle is a London Underground station in the in . It is on the of the Northern line, between and stations.

Church
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The Baptist Church, shortly the , is an Independent Reformed Baptist church in the Elephant and Castle area in .

University
Photo: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. Its origins are in education for the printing and retail industries; it now specialises in media-related subjects including advertising, animation, film, graphic design, photography and sound arts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Heygate Estate and St George’s Circus.

Locality
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The was a large housing estate in , , , comprising 1,214 homes. The estate was demolished between 2011 and 2014 as part of the urban regeneration of the Elephant & Castle area.

Locality
Photo: Martin Addison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St George's Circus is a road junction in , London, England. At its centre, which is now a traffic roundabout, is an historic obelisk, designed by Robert Mylne, in his role as surveyor and architect of .

Photo: Loz Pycock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
are two boroughs of inner south east .

Elephant and Castle

Latitude
51.49501° or 51° 29′ 42″ north
Longitude
-0.10033° or 0° 6′ 1″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Open location code
9C3XFVWX+2V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26546003
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6691964
Wiki­data ID
Q2716414
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Elephant and Castle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيليفانت آند كاسل”
  • Basque: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Chinese: “大象堡”
  • Chinese: “象堡”
  • Czech: “E&C”
  • Czech: “Elephant & Castle”
  • Czech: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Danish: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Dutch: “E&C”
  • Dutch: “Elephant & Castle”
  • Dutch: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Esperanto: “Elefanto kaj Kastelo”
  • Esperanto: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Finnish: “Elephant and Castle”
  • French: “E&C”
  • French: “Elephant & Castle”
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  • German: “E&C”
  • German: “Elephant & Castle”
  • German: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Hindi: “एलिफ़ैंट ऐंड कासल”
  • Irish: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Italian: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Japanese: “エレファント・アンド・キャッスル”
  • Japanese: “エレファント・キャッスルシネマ”
  • Japanese: “エレファント&キャッスル”
  • Latin: “E&C”
  • Latin: “Elephant & Castle”
  • Latin: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Limburgan: “E&C”
  • Limburgan: “Elephant & Castle”
  • Limburgan: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elephant & Castle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Norwegian: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Persian: “الفنت و کاسل”
  • Picard: “E&C”
  • Picard: “Elephant & Castle”
  • Picard: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Russian: “Элефант-энд-Касл”
  • Slovenian: “E&C”
  • Slovenian: “Elephant & Castle”
  • Slovenian: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Spanish: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Turkish: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Urdu: “ایلیفینٹ اور کیسل”
  • Vlaams: “E&C”
  • Vlaams: “Elephant & Castle”
  • Vlaams: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Walloon: “E&C”
  • Walloon: “Elephant & Castle”
  • Walloon: “Elephant and Castle”
  • Yiddish: “עלעפאנט און קאסל סטאנציע”
  • Yue Chinese: “Elephant and Castle”
  • “E&C”
  • “Elephant & Castle”
  • “Elephant and Castle”

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Elephant and Castle”. Photo: Sue Wallace, CC BY 2.0.