Borough tube station
Borough is a London Underground station. It is located in the Borough area of the London Borough of Southwark in central London. The station is on the Bank branch of the Northern line, between London Bridge and Elephant & Castle stations.Photo: TheFrog001, CC0.
- Type: Metro station
- Description: London Underground station
- Also known as: “Borough Underground station” and “Borough Underground Station”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Shard and London Bridge.
The Shard
Photo: Garry Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey mixed-use development supertall pyramid-shaped skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development. The Shard is situated 1,900 feet northeast of Borough tube station.
London Bridge
Shakespeares Globe
Archaeological site
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Shakespeares Globe is situated 2,100 feet north of Borough tube station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southwark and Lewisham and Southwark.
Southwark and Lewisham
Photo: Loz Pycock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southwark and Lewisham are two boroughs of inner south east London.
Southwark
Suburb
Photo: Loz Pycock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southwark is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark.
Elephant and Castle
Suburb
Photo: Sue Wallace, CC BY 2.0.
Elephant and Castle is an area of south London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark. The name also informally refers to much of Walworth and Newington, due to the proximity of the London Underground station of the same name.
Borough tube station
Latitude
51.50114° or 51° 30′ 4″ northLongitude
-0.09329° or 0° 5′ 36″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Operator
London UndergroundNetwork
London UndergroundOpen location code
9C3XGW24+FMOpenStreetMap ID
node 6797794418OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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Satellite Map
Discover Borough tube station from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Borough tube station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بورو (محطه مترو أنفاق لندن)”
- Arabic: “بورو”
- Chinese: “自治市站”
- Czech: “Borough”
- Danish: “Borough Station”
- Dutch: “Borough”
- Esperanto: “Borough”
- Finnish: “Borough’n metroasema”
- French: “Borough”
- Gan Chinese: “孛勞站”
- German: “Borough”
- Hungarian: “Borough metróállomás”
- Hungarian: “Borough”
- Italian: “Borough”
- Italian: “stazione di Borough”
- Japanese: “ボロウ駅”
- Japanese: “ボロ駅”
- Korean: “버러”
- Lombard: “Borough (metropolitana de Londra)”
- Lombard: “Borough”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borough undergrunnsstasjon”
- Norwegian: “Borough undergrunnsstasjon”
- Persian: “ایستگاه متروی بارو”
- Polish: “Borough”
- Portuguese: “Borough (Metropolitano de Londres)”
- Portuguese: “Borough”
- Russian: “Боро (станция метро)”
- Russian: “Боро”
- Spanish: “Borough”
- Turkish: “Borough metro istasyonu”
- Turkish: “Borough tube station”
- Ukrainian: “Боро”
- Urdu: “بورو ٹیوب اسٹیشن”
- Yiddish: “בארא אונטערגרונט סטאנציע”
- Yiddish: “בארא”
- “Borough”
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