
Tower Millennium Pier
Tower Millennium Pier is a pier on the River Thames. Head into Tower Hamlets’ built-up area to find it. Close by, Tower of London is 200 m away, one of 592 within 15 km.
Pier in Tower Hamlets
Inside Tower Hamlets
Tower Millennium Pier is inside Tower Hamlets’ built-up area, with 342 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Weather by the month
For warmth, aim for May to September (19–24°C highs in Tower Hamlets).
Tower Millennium Pier
It has articles in 3 Wikipedias.
- Type
- Pier
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 3 languages
- Town
- in Tower Hamlets
Its place on the map
The places near Tower Millennium Pier are numbered on the map in the order below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Tower Hamlets’ built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Towns near Tower Millennium Pier
Of the 8, Lambeth is the largest, at 317,108 people. Closest first, each of these towns names it on its page.
Tower Hamlets
City of London
Southwark
Islington
Compare the 8 towns
| Town | Where Tower Millennium Pier is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tower Hamlets | It’s in town | 311,072 | 430 |
| City of London | 100 m northwest of it | 7,820 | 432 |
| Southwark | 100 m south of it | 307,076 | 471 |
| Islington | 1.4 km northwest of it | 216,309 | 425 |
| Hackney | 1.4 km north of it | 258,464 | 407 |
| Lambeth | 1.9 km southwest of it | 317,108 | 450 |
| Camden | 2 km northwest of it | 209,342 | 458 |
| Westminster | 2.3 km west of it | 203,571 | 461 |
More near Tower Millennium Pier
592 more lie within 15 km, 2 cathedrals, 2 attractions and a castle among them.
Big drawCastleTower of London200 m away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)2
Big drawMuseumBritish Museum3.6 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)3
CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral1.5 km away4
Big drawArt galleryTate Modern1.4 km away · 1.2M visitors a year (2021)5
Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey3.5 km away6
AttractionElizabeth Tower3.2 km away7
AttractionLondon Eye2.8 km away8
Historic houseBuckingham Palace4.4 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Tower Millennium Pier: common questions
Where is Tower Millennium Pier?
Tower Millennium Pier is in Tower Hamlets, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Tower Millennium Pier?
Pier on the River Thames, in London.
When is the best time to visit Tower Millennium Pier?
May to September are the warmest months in Tower Hamlets, with afternoon highs of 19–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Tower Millennium Pier?
Within 15 km: Tower of London (200 m), British Museum (3.6 km), St Paul's Cathedral (1.5 km) and Tate Modern (1.4 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (9)
- Tower Millennium Pier: Cnbrb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Paul's Cathedral: Mark Fosh, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tate Modern: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- London Eye: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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