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.

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:

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.

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