The old London Bridge, with houses built on it, stood for centuries; the 19th-century bridge was sold to Arizona and rebuilt there. Today’s bridge is plain but offers clear views of Tower Bridge, HMS Belfast and the City. At the northern end stands the Monument, which commemorates the Great Fire and can be climbed. At the southern end are Borough Market and Southwark Cathedral.
Since Roman times, several crossings named
London Bridge have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark in central London. The current crossing, which opened to traffic in 1973, is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel. It replaced a 19th-century stone-arched bridge, which in turn superseded a 600-year-old stone-built medieval structure. In addition to the roadway, for much of its history, the broad medieval bridge supported an extensive built up area of homes and businesses, part of the City's Bridge ward, and its southern end in Southwark was guarded by a large stone City gateway. The medieval bridge was preceded by a succession of timber bridges, the first of which was built by the Roman founders of London (Londinium) around AD 50.
The current bridge stands at the western end of the Pool of London and is positioned 30 metres (98 ft) upstream from the medieval alignment. The approaches to the medieval bridge were marked by the church of St Magnus-the-Martyr on the northern bank and by Southwark Cathedral on the southern shore.
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Borough MarketMarket halls beneath railway arches: cheese, oysters and street food to graze your way through.
The View from The ShardPaid viewing platform at the very top of Britain's tallest building, partly open to the sky.
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