Tower Hill
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Coordinates: 51°30′31″N 0°04′42″W / 51.5085°N 0.0782°W
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6px Tower Hill shown within Greater London |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| London borough | Tower Hamlets |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | London |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | EC3 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| EU 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.
It is the site of the Tower Hill Memorial, Tower Gateway DLR station, and Tower Hill tube station.
Executions
Public executions of high-profile criminals were carried out on the hill. Among those executed there were:
- 1381 - Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury[1] (beheaded on Tower Hill by an angry mob)
- 1381 - Sir Robert Hales[1]
- 1388 - Sir Simon de Burley[1]
- 1397 - Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel[1]
- 1440 - Rev. Richard Wyche, Vicar of Deptford[1]
- 1462 - John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford[1]
- 1470 - John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester[1]
- 1495 - Sir William Stanley[2]
- 1497 - James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley,[2] one of the commanders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 who was beheaded on 28 June 1497
- 1499 - Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick[2]
- 1510 - Edmund Dudley
- 1510 - Sir Richrad Empson
- 1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham[2]
- 1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester[2]
- 1535 - Sir Thomas More,[2] ex-Lord Chancellor
- 1536 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
- 1537 - Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy, Lord Darcy of Templehurst[2]
- 1538 - Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon[3]
- 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex[3]
- 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey[3]
- 1552 - Sir Ralph Fane
- 1552 - Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset[3]
- 1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt[3]
- 1554 - Lord Guilford Dudley
- 1572 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk[3]
- 1586 - Anthony Babington
- 1615 - Sir Gervase Helwys
- 1631 - Mervyn Tuchet, otherwise Audley, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
- 1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford[3]
- 1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury[4]
- 1662 - Sir Henry Vane the Younger[4]
- 1683 - Colonel Algernon Sidney[4]
- 1685 - James Crofts (Scott), 1st Duke of Monmouth[4]
- 1716 - James Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater[4]
- 1746 - William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock
- 1746 - Robert Boyd of Clan Boyd
- 1747 - Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat[4]
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