London Bridge
A plain grey concrete slab, standing where the medieval bridge's drawbridge tower once displayed traitors' severed heads on spikes.
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The 1973 box-girder crossing marks the spot where the medieval bridge carried roughly 140 houses until 1831 — and where its stone successor was sold in 1968 and shipped, block by block, to Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
What to look for
- Security barriers walling the footway off from the road, added after the van attack of 3 June 2017.
- Downstream, the twin towers of Tower Bridge — the picture most people actually mean when they say 'London Bridge.'
- Three prestressed-concrete box-girder spans, opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 March 1973.
Connects the City of London to Southwark on the A3; London Bridge station sits at the south end.
London Bridge is one of 40 sights worth the detour in London, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the London pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in London
- British MuseumThe room where a dead language got its voice back — and you walk in for free.
- Buckingham PalaceThe balcony where a whole country turns up to watch a family wave — with 775 rooms behind it.
- Westminster AbbeyNearly every English monarch since 1066 has been crowned on the same worn patch of floor.
- Big BenThe clang in a thousand establishing shots comes from a cracked bell that's rung slightly off-key since 1859.
- Tower of LondonWilliam the Conqueror's keep turned royal prison, where two queens lost their heads and the Crown Jewels still sit under guard.
- Tower BridgeA Victorian drawbridge dressed as a Gothic castle, its roadway still splitting open for passing ships.