Southwark Bridge
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Key facts
- Coordinates
- 51°30′32″N 0°05′40″W / 51.5089°N 0.0944°W / 51.5089; -0.0944
- Carries
- A300 road
- Crosses
- River Thames
- Locale
- Southwark , London
- Maintained by
- Bridge House Estates , City of London Corporation
- Heritage status
- Grade II listed structure
- Preceded by
- Millennium Bridge
- Followed by
- Cannon Street Railway Bridge
- Total length
- 800 feet (243.8 m)
- Width
- 55 feet (16.8 m)
- Longest span
- 240 feet (73.2 m)
- Opened
- 6 June 1921 ; 105 years ago ( 1921-06-06 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- arch bridge
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- London Borough of Southwark
- Material used
- granite
- Location
- Southwark
- Image
- Southwark Bridge, River Thames, London, England.jpg
- Width
- 17
- Length
- 243
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- crosses
- River Thames
- Commons category
- Southwark Bridge
- date of official opening
- 1921-00-00
- next crossing upstream
- Millennium Bridge
- next crossing downstream
- Cannon Street Railway Bridge
- longest span
- 73
- OS grid reference
- TQ3237980652
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Encyclopedic overview
Southwark Bridge (/ˈsʌðərk/ SUDH-ərk) is an arch bridge in London, for traffic linking the district of Southwark and the City across the River Thames. Besides when others are closed for temporary repairs, it has the least traffic of the Thames bridges in London.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Southwark Bridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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