Visit Bow Common Places

Welcome to Visit Bow Common Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Bow Common

  

Bow Common Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Bow Common

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Bow Common history

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The former Victorian Gas works site at Bow Common is one of a few remaining following the surrounding area’s ongoing transformation. St Paul’s Church was rebuilt in the fashionable ‘new brutalism’ style of 1960 (replacing one damaged in the war) and is now a Grade II* listed building.

Contemporary

Limehouse Cut was featured in the Sunday Times in June 1986 and again in 1989. A new site for the local Irish Travellers community was built in 2008 within the Bow Triangle Business Park. Professor Brian Cox and Baron Mawson opened the new £500,000 Lincoln Pharmacy in 2019, featuring a robot that fulfills customer prescriptions.

You can visit Bow Common places with Walkfo Bow Common to hear history at Bow Common’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Bow Common has 691 places to visit in our interactive Bow Common map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Bow Common, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Bow Common places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Bow Common & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Bow Common Places Map
691 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Bow Common tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Bow Common

  

Best Bow Common places to visit

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Bow Common has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Bow Common’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Bow Common’s information audio spots:

Southwark Park Southwark Park is located in Rotherhithe, in central South East London . It first opened in 1869 by the Metropolitan Board of Works as one of its first parks . It takes its name from being in what was the old Parliamentary constituency of Southwark .

King’s Stairs Gardens King’s Stairs Gardens is a riverside park in Bermondsey, London . It is bordered to the north by the River Thames and to the south by Jamaica Road (A200)

Statue of Trajan, Tower Hill The statue of Trajan is a bronze sculpture depicting the Roman Emperor Trajan. It is located in front of a section of the London Wall built by Romans, at Tower Hill in London.

Deptford Park Deptford Park is a public park in Deptford south-east London . It is owned by London Borough of Lewisham and owned by the London boroughs .

Evelyn (ward) Evelyn is an electoral ward in the northernmost part of the London Borough of Lewisham . It covers the northern part of Deptford on the south bank of the River Thames . Evelyn borders wards from three other London Boroughs, Greenwich West, Surrey Docks and Southwark .

Holy Trinity Church, Rotherhithe Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church in Rotherhithe, south east London, within the diocese of Southwark .

Aragon Tower Aragon Tower on the Pepys Estate in Deptford, is one of London’s tallest privately owned residential towers at 92 metres with 29 floors . It contains 158 residential apartments ranging from 2 to 3 bedrooms .

Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate The Holy Trinity Priory was founded in 1108 by Queen Matilda of England, wife of King Henry I, near Aldgate in London . The house was founded with clergy from St Botolph’s Priory in Colchester .

Tower division The Tower Division was a liberty in the ancient county of Middlesex, England. It took its name from the military obligations owed to the Constable of the Tower of London. In contemporary terms, the Liberty covered inner East London, the area now administered by the eponymous modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Hackney Wick Hackney Wick lies 4.2 miles (6.8 km) northeast of Charing Cross. Adjacent areas of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets are sometimes also described as being part of Hackney.

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