The Bermondsey Lion
The Bermondsey Lion is a work of art in London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England. The Bermondsey Lion is situated nearby to the marketplace The Blue, as well as near Market Place.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Blue and The Tower of London.
The Blue
Marketplace
The Blue is a central market place in Bermondsey, southeast London. The market is open Monday to Saturday from 9 am until 5 pm and has about 10 stall holders, selling food and clothes.
The Tower of London
Photo: Aniacra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in London, England. The Tower of London is situated 1¼ miles northwest of The Bermondsey Lion.
Tower Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Barcex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. Tower Bridge is situated 1 mile northwest of The Bermondsey Lion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bermondsey and Execution Dock.
Bermondsey
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bermondsey is a district in southeast London, part of the London Borough of Southwark, England, 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of Charing Cross. To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe and Deptford, to the south Walworth and Peckham, and to the north is Wapping across the River Thames.
Execution Dock
Locality
Execution Dock was a site on the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts.
Surrey Quays
Quarter
Photo: Secretlondon, Public domain.
Surrey Quays is a largely residential area of Rotherhithe in south-east London, occupied until 1970 by the Surrey Commercial Docks. The precise boundaries of the area are somewhat amorphous, but it is generally considered to comprise the southern half of the Rotherhithe peninsula from Canada Water to South Dock; electorally, Surrey Docks is the eastern half of the peninsula.
The Bermondsey Lion
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: sculpture
- Category: tourism
- Location: London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4923° or 51° 29′ 32″ northLongitude
-0.06362° or 0° 3′ 49″ westOpen location code
9C3XFWRP+WHOpenStreetMap ID
node 5810707207OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculpture
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