Things to see and do

A few of the places within a short walk of London Bridge. We don't list opening times or prices, because they change. Please check each official site before you go.

Borough Market

A food market with about 1,000 years of history at the foot of London Bridge. It has been on its current site since 1756 and is run by a charitable trust.^[1]

boroughmarket.org.uk Check before you go

Southwark Cathedral

Right beside the bridge, the cathedral describes itself as the oldest cathedral church building in London. It became a cathedral in 1905.^[2]

cathedral.southwark.anglican.org Check before you go

The Shard

Designed by Renzo Piano, the Shard is 309.6 metres tall with 95 storeys, at 32 London Bridge Street. The public viewing galleries, The View from The Shard, are on levels 68 to 72 and opened in February 2013.^[3]

the-shard.com Check before you go

HMS Belfast

A Second World War cruiser, launched on 17 March 1938. She supported the D-Day landings in 1944 and served in the Korean War. She opened to the public in London on 21 October 1971^[4] and is now run by Imperial War Museums, moored by The Queen's Walk. About 950 people lived and served aboard, across nine decks.^[5]

iwm.org.uk/visits/hms-belfast Check before you go

Hay's Galleria

A Grade II listed former wharf on the river. Known as Hay's Wharf, it was called the “Larder of London” in the 1800s and was famous for tea imports. It reopened in 1987 under a Victorian-style glass roof, with David Kemp's moving bronze sculpture The Navigators.^[6]

hays-galleria.com Check before you go

The Golden Hinde

A full-size reconstruction of Sir Francis Drake's Elizabethan galleon, the first English ship to sail around the globe. The ship was built in 1973^[7] at Appledore in Devon^[8] and has been moored in St Mary Overie Dock, Cathedral Street, since 1996.^[7]

goldenhinde.co.uk Check before you go

Along the river to Tower Bridge

From London Bridge, follow the riverside path east past Hay's Galleria and HMS Belfast to Tower Bridge. The bridge opened in 1894 and was designed by Sir Horace Jones with the engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry.^[9] Inside, the ticketed Tower Bridge exhibition includes high-level walkways with glass floors and the Victorian engine rooms.^[10] You'll find the route on our walks page.

towerbridge.org.uk Check before you go

Also nearby: Winchester Palace

On Clink Street, the ruined walls of a 13th-century palace of the Bishops of Winchester, including a rose window. English Heritage says it is free to view from the pavement.^[11]

english-heritage.org.uk Check before you go