Balfron Tower
Balfron Tower is a 27-storey residential building in Poplar, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London. Built in a Brutalist style, it forms part of the Brownfield Estate, an area of social housing between Chrisp Street Market and the A12 northern approach to the Blackwall Tunnel.Photo: Graeme Maclean, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Cianboy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Apartment building
- Description: residential building in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Address: St Leonard’s Road, London, E14 0UY and E14 0XU
- Roof shape: flat
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include All Saints DLR station and Langdon Park DLR station.
All Saints DLR station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
All Saints is a Docklands Light Railway station in Poplar in East London. The station is named after nearby All Saints, a Church of England parish church dating from 1821 to 1823. All Saints DLR station is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Balfron Tower.
Langdon Park DLR station
Railway station
Photo: Kake Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Langdon Park is a Docklands Light Railway station in Poplar in London, England. The station is between All Saints and Devons Road stations on the Stratford-Lewisham Line. Langdon Park DLR station is situated 1,300 feet northwest of Balfron Tower.
River Lea
River
Photo: Jamsta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The River Lea is in the East of England and Greater London. It originates in Bedfordshire, in the Chiltern Hills, and flows southeast through Hertfordshire, along the Essex border and into Greater London, to meet the River Thames at Bow Creek.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poplar and Blackwall Yard.
Poplar
Suburb
Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Poplar is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located five miles east of Charing Cross and lies on the western bank of the River Lea.
Blackwall Yard
Locality
Blackwall Yard is a small body of water that used to be a shipyard on the River Thames in Blackwall, engaged in ship building and later ship repairs for over 350 years. The yard closed in 1987.
Blackwall
Suburb
Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Blackwall is an area of Poplar, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. The neighbourhood includes Leamouth and the Coldharbour conservation area.
Balfron Tower
- Categories: tower block, residential building, and building
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51357° or 51° 30′ 49″ northLongitude
-0.00881° or 0° 0′ 32″ westInception
1967Levels
27Open location code
9C3XGX7R+CFOpenStreetMap ID
way 135465165OpenStreetMap feature
building=apartmentsOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=flatWikidata ID
Q804926
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Thai—“Balfron Tower” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “巴爾弗隆塔”
- Chinese: “巴芙隆大樓”
- Dutch: “Balfron Tower”
- French: “Balfron Tower”
- German: “Balfron Tower und Carradale House”
- German: “Balfron Tower”
- Hebrew: “מגדל בלפרון”
- Italian: “Balfron Tower”
- Polish: “Balfron Tower”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Balfron Tower”
- Spanish: “Balfron Tower”
- Thai: “บาลเฟรินทาวเวอร์”
- “Balfron Tower”
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