Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace is an area in South London, named after the Crystal Palace Exhibition building which stood in the area from 1854, until it was destroyed by a fire in 1936.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 12,300 residents
- Description: residential area in London, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Crystal Palace, London”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crystal Palace railway station and Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.
Crystal Palace railway station
Railway station
Photo: Svetlopisac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crystal Palace is an interchange station between the Windrush line of the London Overground and National Rail services operated by Southern, situated in the London Borough of Bromley in south London.
Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
Sports venue
Photo: Svetlopisac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, England is a large sports centre and outdoor athletics stadium. It was opened in 1964 in Crystal Palace Park, close to the site of the former Crystal Palace Exhibition building which had been destroyed by fire in 1936, and is on the same site as the former FA Cup Final venue which was used here between 1895 and 1914.
Crystal Palace Park
Park
Photo: Ewan-M, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crystal Palace Park is a large Victorian park in south-east London, Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It was laid out in the 1850s as a pleasure ground, centred around the re-location of The Crystal Palace – the largest glass…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anerley and Penge.
Anerley
Suburb
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anerley is suburb of south east London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is located 7 miles south south-east of Charing Cross, to the south of Upper Norwood, west of Penge, north of Elmers End and east of South Norwood.
Penge
Suburb
Photo: P Ingerson, Public domain.
Penge is a suburb of South East London, England, now in the London Borough of Bromley, 3.5 miles west of Bromley, 3.7 miles north east of Croydon and 7.1 miles south east of Charing Cross.
Sydenham
Town
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Sydenham is a district of south-east London, England, which is shared between the London boroughs of Lewisham, Bromley and Southwark. Prior to the creation of the County of London in 1889, Sydenham was located in Kent, bordering Surrey.
Crystal Palace
- Categories: residential area, area of London, and locality
- Location: Bromley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.41937° or 51° 25′ 10″ northLongitude
-0.07113° or 0° 4′ 16″ westPopulation
12,300Elevation
361 feet (110 metres)Open location code
9C3XCW9H+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 21262497OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6693937Wikidata ID
Q122909
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Crystal Palace” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Crystal Palace”
- Catalan: “Crystal Palace”
- Chinese: “水晶宮”
- Czech: “Crystal Palace”
- Danish: “Crystal Palace”
- Dutch: “Crystal Palace”
- Esperanto: “Kristala Palaco”
- Finnish: “Crystal Palace”
- French: “Crystal Palace”
- German: “Crystal Palace”
- Hebrew: “קריסטל פאלאס”
- Hindi: “क्रिस्टल पैलस, लंदन”
- Hindi: “क्रिस्टल पैलस”
- Indonesian: “Crystal Palace, London”
- Irish: “Crystal Palace”
- Italian: “Crystal Palace”
- Japanese: “クリスタル・パレス”
- Malay: “Crystal Palace, London”
- Malay: “Crystal Palace”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Crystal Palace”
- Norwegian: “Crystal Palace”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Crystal Palace”
- Persian: “کریستال پالاس، لندن”
- Portuguese: “Crystal Palace”
- Serbian: “Кристал палас”
- Slovak: “Crystal Palace”
- Slovenian: “Crystal Palace”
- South Azerbaijani: “کریستال پالاس، لندن”
- Spanish: “Crystal Palace (Londres)”
- Spanish: “Crystal Palace”
- Turkish: “Crystal Palace, Londra”
- Turkish: “Crystal Palace”
- Urdu: “کرسٹل پیلس، لندن”
- Welsh: “Crystal Palace”
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