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The Tower of London

The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the in , England.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: castle in central London, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress”, “Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London”, “His Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress”, “The Tower”, “Tower of London”, and “Tower of London (London, England)”
  • Address: Tower Hill, London, EC3N 4AB
  • Wheelchair access: yes
Photo: Bob Collowân, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include White Tower and Tower Bridge.

Castle
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The is a former royal residence, the old keep, at the Tower of London in England. It was built by William the Conqueror during the early 1080s, and subsequently extended.

Bridge
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is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in , built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. is situated 970 feet south of The Tower of London.

Church
Photo: Michael Coppins, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula is a Chapel Royal and the former of the Tower of London. The chapel's name refers to the story of Saint Peter's imprisonment under Herod Agrippa in Jerusalem.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Butler’s Wharf and Aldgate.

Neighborhood
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Butler's Wharf is an historic building at Shad Thames on the south bank of the , just east of 's , now housing luxury flats and restaurants.

Quarter
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was a gate in the former defensive wall around the . The gate gave its name to High Street, the first stretch of the A11 road, that takes that name as it passes through the ancient, extramural Portsoken Ward of the City of London.

The Tower of London

Latitude
51.50813° or 51° 30′ 29″ north
Longitude
-0.07629° or 0° 4′ 35″ west
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGW5F+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 370870741
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6286786
Wiki­data ID
Q62378
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“The Tower of London” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Londense Tower”
  • Afrikaans: “Toring van Londen”
  • Afrikaans: “Tower of London”
  • Arabic: “برج لندن”
  • Arabic: “قصر وقلعة صاحبة الجلالة”
  • Armenian: “Թաուեր”
  • Armenian: “Լոնդոնի թաուեր”
  • Azerbaijani: “London qalası”
  • Azerbaijani: “London qəsri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tauer”
  • Balinese: “Menara London”
  • Basque: “London Tower”
  • Basque: “Londongo dorrea”
  • Basque: “Londreseko dorrea”
  • Basque: “Londresko dorrea”
  • Basque: “Tower of London”
  • Belarusian: “Лонданскі Таўэр”
  • Belarusian: “Таўэр”
  • Belarusian: “Тоўэр”
  • Bengali: “টাওয়ার অফ লন্ডন”
  • Bengali: “টাওয়ার অব লন্ডন”
  • Bhojpuri: “लंदन टावर”
  • Bosnian: “London Tower”
  • Bosnian: “Londonski Tower”
  • Bosnian: “Tower of London”
  • Bulgarian: “Лондонска кула”
  • Bulgarian: “Тауър”
  • Burmese: “လန်ဒန်ရဲတိုက်ကြီး”
  • Catalan: “Torre de Londres”
  • Catalan: “Tower of london”
  • Cebuano: “Tower of London”
  • Central Kurdish: “تاوەری لەندەن”
  • Chinese: “伦敦塔”
  • Chinese: “倫敦塔”
  • Croatian: “London Tower”
  • Croatian: “Londonski toranj”
  • Croatian: “Londonski Tower”
  • Croatian: “White Tower”
  • Czech: “Tower of London”
  • Czech: “Tower”
  • Danish: “Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress of The Tower of London”
  • Danish: “The Tower of London”
  • Danish: “Tower of London”
  • Danish: “Tower”
  • Dutch: “De Tower of London”
  • Dutch: “The tower of London”
  • Dutch: “Tower of London”
  • Esperanto: “The Tower”
  • Esperanto: “Tower of London”
  • Esperanto: “Turo de Londono”
  • Estonian: “Tower”
  • Finnish: “Lontoon Tower”
  • Finnish: “Tower of London”
  • Finnish: “Tower”
  • Finnish: “Towerin linna”
  • French: “tour de Londres”
  • French: “Tour de Londres”
  • Galician: “Torre de Londres”
  • Georgian: “ლონდონის ტაუერი”
  • Georgian: “ტაუერი”
  • German: “Her Majesty’S Royal Palace And Fortress”
  • German: “Londoner Tower”
  • German: “The Tower of London”
  • German: “The Tower”
  • German: “Tower of London”
  • German: “Tower von London”
  • Greek: “Πύργος του Λονδίνου”
  • Gujarati: “ટાવર ઓફ લંડન”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל לונדון”
  • Hebrew: “מצודת העיר לונדון”
  • Hebrew: “מצודת לונדון”
  • Hindi: “टावर ऑफ़ लण्डन”
  • Hindi: “टावर ऑफ़ लंदन”
  • Hindi: “लंदन टावर”
  • Hungarian: “Londoni Tower”
  • Icelandic: “Lundúnaturn”
  • Icelandic: “Tower of London”
  • Ido: “Turmo di London”
  • Indonesian: “Kastel Menara London”
  • Indonesian: “Menara London”
  • Indonesian: “Tower of London”
  • Interlingua: “Turre de London”
  • Irish: “Túr Londan”
  • Italian: “Torre di Londra”
  • Japanese: “ロンドン塔”
  • Japanese: “倫敦塔”
  • Javanese: “Menara London”
  • Kannada: “ಲಂಡನ್ ಗೋಪುರ”
  • Kannada: “ಲಂಡನ್‌ ಗೋಪುರ”
  • Korean: “런던탑”
  • Kotava: “London rasek”
  • Latin: “Turris Londiniensis”
  • Latin: “Turris Londinii”
  • Latvian: “Londonas Tauers”
  • Latvian: “Tauers”
  • Latvian: “Tower of London”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tore de London”
  • Lithuanian: “Londono Taueris”
  • Lithuanian: “Tauerio tvirtovė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tower of London”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tower vu London”
  • Macedonian: “Лондонска кула”
  • Malay: “Menara London”
  • Malayalam: “ലണ്ടൻ ടവർ”
  • Maltese: “Torri ta‘ Londra”
  • Maltese: “Torri ta’ Londra”
  • Maltese: “Tower of London”
  • Marathi: “टॉवर ऑफ लंडन”
  • Marathi: “लंडनचा टॉवर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “The Tower of London”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tower Green”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tower i London”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tower of London”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tower of London”
  • Norwegian: “Tower of London”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tor de Londres”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Torre de Londres”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lundenturr”
  • Persian: “برج لندن”
  • Polish: “Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress”
  • Polish: “Londyńska Tower”
  • Polish: “Pałac i Twierdza Jej Królewskiej Mości”
  • Polish: “The Tower of London”
  • Polish: “The Tower”
  • Polish: “Tower of London”
  • Portuguese: “London Tower”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de Londres”
  • Portuguese: “Tower of London”
  • Pushto: “د لندن برج”
  • Romanian: “Turnul Londrei”
  • Russian: “Лондонский Тауэр”
  • Russian: “Тауер”
  • Russian: “Тауэр”
  • Russian: “Тоуэр”
  • Scots: “Touer o Lunnon”
  • Serbian: “Tower of London”
  • Serbian: “Лондон тауер”
  • Serbian: “Лондонска Кула”
  • Serbian: “Тауер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Londonski Tower”
  • Sicilian: “Tower of London”
  • Sicilian: “Turri di Londra”
  • Slovak: “Tower of London”
  • Slovenian: “Londonski Tower”
  • Slovenian: “Tower of London”
  • Spanish: “La Torre de Londres”
  • Spanish: “Torre de Londres”
  • Spanish: “Tower of London”
  • Swedish: “The Tower”
  • Swedish: “Tower of London”
  • Swedish: “Towern”
  • Tagalog: “Tore ng Londres”
  • Tamil: “இலண்டன் கோபுரம்”
  • Tamil: “லண்டன் கோபுரம்”
  • Telugu: “లండన్ టవర్”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังหลวงและป้อมปราการของหอคอยแห่งลอนดอนในพระองค์ฯ”
  • Thai: “หอคอยแห่งลอนดอน”
  • Turkish: “Londra Kalesi”
  • Turkish: “Londra Kulesi”
  • Turkish: “Tower of London”
  • Ukrainian: “Лондонський Тауер”
  • Ukrainian: “Тауер”
  • Urdu: “ٹاور آف لندن”
  • Uzbek: “London minorasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Tháp London”
  • Vietnamese: “Tháp Luân Đôn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tore han London”
  • Welsh: “Twr Llundain”
  • Welsh: “Tŵr Llundain”
  • Western Frisian: “Toer fan Londen”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹاور آف لندن”
  • Wu Chinese: “伦敦塔”
  • Yiddish: “טורעם פון לאנדאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “倫敦塔”
  • “लंदन टावर”

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