Tower Hill

Tower Hill is an elevated spot outside the Tower of London and just outside the limits of the City of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Belonging to one of the oldest parts of London, archeological evidence shows that there was a settling on the hill in the bronze age and much later a Roman village that was burnt down during the Boadicea uprising.

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The church All Hallows-by-the-Tower is renowned for fragments of Romanesque architecture dating back to the year 680.

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Public executions of high-profile criminals were carried out on the hill.

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Among those executed there were:

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• Thomas More - 1535
• Guilford Dudley - 1554
• Mervyn Tuchet, otherwise Audley, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven - 1631
• William Laud - 1645
• Henry Vane the Younger - 1662
• James Crofts (Scott), 1st Duke of Monmouth - 1685
• Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat - 1747

Women were generally executed within the confines of the Tower of London rather than on Tower Hill.

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It is the site of the Tower Hill Memorial, Tower Gateway DLR station, and Tower Hill tube station.

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Tower of London: The Tower of London is officially Her Majesty's Palace and Fortress, The Tower of London, although the last ruler to reside in it as a palace was King James I (1566-1625). The White Tower, the square building with turrets on each corner that gave it its name, is actually in the middle of a complex o...

City of London: : For London as a whole, see the main article London....

London Borough of Tower Hamlets: The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames in East London....

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