Waterloo
Waterloo is a district in Central London, and part of the Waterloo and South Bank ward of the London Borough of Lambeth. It is situated 1 mile east of Charing Cross.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: district of Central London in the London Borough of Lambeth, England
- Also known as: “Waterloo, London”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Leicester Square and Waterloo Railway Station.
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.
Waterloo Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a major central London railway terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.
London Eye
Ferris wheel
Photo: Khamtran, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Bank and St George’s Circus.
South Bank
Photo: Bloodholds, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
St George’s Circus
Locality
Photo: Martin Addison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St George's Circus is a road junction in Southwark, 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 Blackfriars Bridge.
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.
Waterloo
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Lambeth, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50149° or 51° 30′ 5″ northLongitude
-0.11264° or 0° 6′ 46″ westElevation
56 feet (17 metres)Open location code
9C3XGV2P+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 10661537007OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Waterloo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ضاحية واترلو، لندن”
- Arabic: “واترلو”
- Bengali: “ওয়াটারলু”
- Catalan: “Waterloo”
- Chinese: “滑鐵盧 (倫敦)”
- Chinese: “滑鐵盧”
- French: “Waterloo”
- Hebrew: “ווטרלו”
- Irish: “Waterloo”
- Italian: “Waterloo”
- Japanese: “ウォータールー (ロンドン)”
- Japanese: “ウォータールー”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waterloo”
- Persian: “واترلو، لندن”
- Russian: “Уотерлу”
- Slovak: “Waterloo”
- Slovenian: “Waterloo”
- South Azerbaijani: “واترلو، لندن”
- Spanish: “Waterloo”
- Turkish: “Waterloo”
- Urdu: “واٹرلو، لندن”
- Welsh: “Waterloo, Llundain”
- Welsh: “Waterloo”
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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 “Waterloo”. Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.