Cannon Street

Cannon Street is a road in the City of London, the historic nucleus of London and its modern financial centre. It runs roughly parallel with the River Thames, about 250 metres north of it, in the south of the City.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include London Bridge and London Stone.

London Bridge

Photo: Oxyman, CC BY 2.5.

The name "London Bridge" refers to several historical crossings that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark in central London since Roman times. London Bridge is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Cannon Street.

London Stone

Archaeological site

Photo: Lord Belbury, CC BY-SA 4.0.

London Stone is a historic landmark housed at 111 Cannon Street in the City of London. It is an irregular block of oolitic limestone measuring 53 × 43 × 30 cm, the remnant of a once much larger object that had stood for many centuries on the south side of the street.

Cannon Street station

Metro station

Photo: GrindtXX, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cannon Street station, also known as London Cannon Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in London fare zone 1 located on Cannon Street in the City of London and managed by Network Rail.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bankside and Barbican Estate.

Bankside

Quarter

Bankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark. Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames, 1.5 miles east of Charing Cross, running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance before London Bridge at St Mary Overie Dock.

Barbican Estate

Quarter

Photo: Riodamascus, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes and houses in central London, England, within the City of London.

Cannon Street

Type: Railway stop
Description: street in the City of London
Categories: street, transport stop, and transportation
Location: City of London, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.51151° or 51° 30′ 41″ north

Longitude

-0.0903° or 0° 5′ 25″ west

Elevation

85 feet (26 metres)

Operator

London Underground

Open location code

9C3XGW65+JV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1725360051

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=stop

GeoNames ID

7117384

Wikidata ID

Q2936432

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Cannon Street” goes by many names.

Arabic: “كانون ستريت”
Chinese: “坎農街”
Dutch: “Cannon Street”
French: “Cannon Street”
German: “Cannon Street”
Italian: “Cannon Street”
Japanese: “キャノン・ストリート”
Japanese: “キャノン街”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Cannon Street”
Norwegian: “Cannon Street”
Persian: “خیابان کنن”
Slovenian: “Cannon Street”
Turkish: “Cannon Sokağı”
Turkish: “Cannon Street”
Urdu: “کینن اسٹریٹ”

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