Westminster Bridge
The green paint isn't decoration — it's the House of Commons following you across the Thames.
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Thomas Page's 1862 span is the oldest road crossing of the Thames in central London, its seven cast-iron arches running beside the Palace of Westminster — the same view Wordsworth stood over in 1802 and turned into a poem.
What to look for
- Green paintwork keyed to the leather benches of the House of Commons; the next bridge upstream, Lambeth, runs red for the House of Lords.
- Charles Barry's Gothic detailing worked into the arches, echoing the Palace of Westminster he designed beside it.
- The South Bank Lion at the eastern, Lambeth end of the crossing.
Westminster Underground exits right onto the north end; walk toward the London Eye side for the full Parliament-and-clock-tower view.
Westminster 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.