Barbican tube station

Barbican is a London Underground station situated near the , on the edge of the ward of Farringdon Within, City of London. It has been known by various names since its opening in 1865, mostly in reference to the neighbouring ward of Aldersgate.
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: London Underground station
  • Also known as: “Aldersgate”, “Aldersgate & Barbican tube station”, “Aldersgate & Barbican Underground station”, “Aldersgate Street tube station”, “Aldersgate Street Underground station”, “Aldersgate tube station”, “Aldersgate Underground station”, “Barbican railway station”, “Barbican station”, “Barbican Underground station”, “Barbican Underground Station”, and “ZBB”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Barbican Arts Centre and St Paul’s Cathedral.

Arts center
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The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the of the , England, and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. is situated 1,100 feet east of Barbican tube station.

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. is situated 2,300 feet south of Barbican tube station.

Garden
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is a garden square, a pentagonal space, in , in the , and close to the former .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Farringdon and Golden Lane Estate.

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

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
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Smithfield, properly known as , is a district located in , part of Farringdon Without, the most westerly ward of the , England.

Barbican tube station

Latitude
51.52018° or 51° 31′ 13″ north
Longitude
-0.09863° or 0° 5′ 55″ west
Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)
Inception
December 23rd, 1865
Operator
London Underground
Network
London Underground
Abbreviation
“ZBB”
Open location code
9C3XGWC2+3G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3076573910
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
6945045
Wiki­data ID
Q38876
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Barbican tube station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باربيكان”
  • Catalan: “Barbican”
  • Catalan: “estació de metro de Barbican”
  • Chinese: “巴比肯站”
  • Chinese: “巴貝肯站”
  • Czech: “Barbican”
  • Danish: “Barbican Station”
  • Dutch: “Barbican (metrostation)”
  • Dutch: “Barbican”
  • Esperanto: “Barbican”
  • Finnish: “Barbicanin metroasema”
  • French: “Barbican”
  • Gan Chinese: “巴比嵌站”
  • Georgian: “ბარბიკენი”
  • German: “Bahnhof Barbican”
  • German: “Barbican Station”
  • German: “Barbican”
  • Hungarian: “Barbican metróállomás”
  • Hungarian: “Barbican”
  • Indonesian: “Barbican”
  • Italian: “Barbican”
  • Italian: “stazione di Barbican”
  • Japanese: “バービカン駅”
  • Latin: “Barbacana”
  • Lombard: “Barbican (metropolitana de Londra)”
  • Lombard: “Barbican”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barbican stasjon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barbican undergrunnsstasjon”
  • Norwegian: “Barbican stasjon”
  • Persian: “ایستگاه متروی باربیکان”
  • Polish: “Barbican”
  • Portuguese: “Barbican (Metropolitano de Londres)”
  • Portuguese: “Barbican”
  • Russian: “Барбакан”
  • Russian: “Барбикан”
  • Russian: “Барбикэн”
  • Slovak: “Barbican”
  • Spanish: “Barbican”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Barbican”
  • Spanish: “estación de metro de Barbican”
  • Swedish: “Barbican”
  • Turkish: “Barbican metro istasyonu”
  • Turkish: “Barbican tube station”
  • Turkish: “Barbikan”
  • Ukrainian: “Барбікан”
  • Urdu: “باربیکین ٹیوب اسٹیشن”
  • Yiddish: “בארביקאן אונטערגרונט סטאנציע”
  • Yiddish: “בארביקאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴貝肯站”
  • “Barbican”
  • “ZBB”

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