Tower Hill Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Tower Hill is an elevated spot outside the Tower 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.

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

Public executionss of high profile criminals were carried out on the hill. Among those executed there were:

• 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.

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

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Tower Hill is the name of a volcano in the Tower Hill State Game Reserve in Victoria, Australia.

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