Belvedere, London
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Belvedere | |
  |
|
| Location | |
|---|---|
| OS grid reference: | TQ495785 |
| Latitude: | 51.485615° |
| Longitude: | 0.154145° |
| Administration | |
| London borough: | Bexley |
| County level: | Greater London |
| Region: | London |
| Constituent country: | England |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom |
| Other | |
| Ceremonial county: | Greater London |
| Historic county: | Kent (1965) |
| Services | |
| Police force: | Metropolitan Police |
| Fire brigade: | London Fire Brigade |
| Ambulance service: | London Ambulance |
| Post office and telephone | |
| Post town: | BELVEDERE |
| Postal district: | DA17 |
| Dialling code: | 020 |
| Politics | |
| UK Parliament: | Erith & Thamesmead |
| London Assembly: | Bexley and Bromley |
| European Parliament: | London |
| London | List of places in London | |
Belvedere is a suburban area in the northern part of the London Borough of Bexley, southeast London. It may have been named for its views over the Thames Estuary, with reference to a belvedere. Within the nearby area are the following: Erith Marshes, Abbey Wood, Bostall Woods, Lesnes Abbey, Thamesmead, and West Heath.
Upper Belvedere features a fine church and some modest brick villas. Lower Belvedere is better known for a Methodist chapel, a Sikh Temple and a high technology sludge incinerator, which is an unexpected landmark on the south bank of the river Thames. Belvedere railway station, opened in 1859, is in Lower Belvedere and is served by the North Kent Line.
Community interests are represented by Belvedere Community Forum.
Erith and Belvedere Football Club recently moved to Welling in a ground-sharing arrangement.
[edit] Politics
Councillors for the Belvedere ward of Bexley London Borough Council are David Leaf (Conservative), Daniel Francis (Labour) and John Fuller (Conservative). Belvedere lies within the Erith and Thamesmead constituency (M.P. John Austin, Labour), and is in the Bexley and Bromley London Assembly constituency, represented by Bob Neill (Conservative).
[edit] Nearest places
[edit] Nearest railway stations
- Belvedere railway station
- Erith railway station
- Abbey Wood railway station
- Bexleyheath railway station
