Tower Hill
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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. Tower Hill is a open space that separe London Tower from the City of London.
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.
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:
- 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 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.
