Tower Hill
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| Tower Hill | |
  Tower Hill shown within Greater London |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| London borough | Tower Hamlets |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | London |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | EC3 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| European Parliament | London |
| London Assembly | City and East |
| List of places: UK • England • London | |
Tower Hill is an elevated spot north-west of the Tower of London, just outside the limits of the City of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Formerly it was part of the Tower Liberty under the direct administrative control of Tower. Belonging to one of the oldest parts of London, archeological evidence shows that there was a settlement on the hill in the Bronze Age and much later a Roman village that was burnt down during the Boudicca uprising.
The church All Hallows-by-the-Tower is renowned for fragments of Romanesque architecture dating back to the year 680.
Public executions of high-profile criminals were carried out on the hill.
Among those executed there were:
- James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, one of the commanders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 who was beheaded on 28 June 1497
- Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham - 1521
- John Fisher - 1535
- Thomas More - 1535
- Guilford Dudley - 1554
- Anthony Babington - 1586
- 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
- William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock - 1746
- Robert Boyd of Clan Boyd 1746
- Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat - 1747
Women were generally executed on Tower Green within the confines of the Tower of London rather than on Tower Hill.
It is the site of the Tower Hill Memorial, Tower Gateway DLR station, and Tower Hill tube station.
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