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King's Cross London Map

Traditional county: London · Unitary authority: Greater London · Region: London

Explore King's Cross, London with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the King's Cross map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.

Interactive Map of King's Cross, London

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Place	King's Cross
Traditional County	London
Unitary Authority	Greater London
District / Borough	Islington
Region	London
Country	England, United Kingdom

Latitude	51.536945
Longitude	-0.119144
Place Type	Suburban Area

About King's Cross

King's Cross pulses with a frantic, industrial vitality, its Victorian ironwork casting long, skeletal shadows against the glass facades of modern commerce. It lies 1.9 miles north-west of City of London (from City of London: bearing 323°T, OS grid TQ 305 836). The rhythmic clatter of trains arriving from the north feeds a perpetual motion, drawing commuters into a landscape where the soot of history has been scrubbed away to reveal gleaming, utilitarian ambition. Nearby, the water of the Regent’s Canal slips silently past the London Canal Museum, offering a moment of liquid stillness that contrasts sharply with the frantic pace of the platforms. King's Cross balances this mechanical intensity with small, verdant pockets like Handyside Gardens, where the green leaves seem to strive upward against the encroaching stone. Above the thoroughfares, the singular, sculptural form of the Ark: High and Dry looms as a strange, metallic sentinel, marking the intersection of the imaginative and the mundane. The light here strikes the brickwork at sharp angles, turning the heavy, soot-stained masonry of the old station into a rich, burnt copper at the dusk of a winter day. It is a place of transit and transformation, where the persistent hum of the city vibrates through the very soles of one’s feet.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Handyside Gardens (Park) — 0.1 mi, 230° SW
Bingfield Park (Park) — 0.2 mi, 355° N
Everyman King's Cross (Cinema) — 0.2 mi, 281° W
Queer Britain (Museum) — 0.2 mi, 247° WSW
Ark: High and Dry (Public Artwork) — 0.2 mi, 230° SW
London Canal Museum (Museum) — 0.2 mi, 194° SSW
Crumbles Castle (Castle) — 0.2 mi, 343° NNW
Everyman On The Corner (Cinema) — 0.3 mi, 279° W
Lightroom (Museum) — 0.3 mi, 276° W
St Pancras Lock (Attraction) — 0.4 mi, 262° W
Young Actors Theatre (Theatre) — 0.4 mi, 099° E
2Northdown (Theatre) — 0.4 mi, 180° S
Platform 9¾ (Attraction) — 0.4 mi, 212° SSW
IFO (Identified Flying Object) (Attraction) — 0.4 mi, 218° SW
Hardy Tree (Attraction) — 0.5 mi, 255° WSW
Crick Exhibition (Museum) — 0.5 mi, 226° SW
British Library Exhibition Space (Museum) — 0.6 mi, 217° SW
Sir Hugh Myddleton Memorial (Monument) — 0.7 mi, 097° E
Regent's Canal (River) — 0.8 mi, 112° ESE
Coram'S Fields, With Mecklenburgh And Brunswick Squares (Historic Park or Garden) — 0.9 mi, 179° S · 5 ha
Richard Cobden Statue (Monument) — 0.9 mi, 260° W
Gray'S Inn (Historic Park or Garden (Grade II*)) — 1.2 mi, 166° SSE · 5 ha
Benedictine Nunnery Of St Mary, Clerkenwell (Scheduled Monument) — 1.2 mi, 146° SSE
Bedford Square (Historic Park or Garden (Grade II*)) — 1.3 mi, 197° SSW
Three Island Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.4 mi, 263° W
Barnard'S Inn Hall (Mercers' School) (Scheduled Monument) — 1.5 mi, 161° SSE
A Subterranean Commercial Ice-Well (City Of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1 (Scheduled Monument) — 1.5 mi, 227° SW
London Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 1.6 mi, 266° W
Primrose Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.7 mi, 275° W
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground (Historic Park or Garden (Grade I)) — 1.7 mi, 125° SE · 2 ha

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