Tower Hill
Tower Hill is the area surrounding the Tower of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is infamous for the public execution of high status prisoners from the late 14th to the mid 18th century.
- Type: Quarter
- Description: hill and neighbourhood in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Also known as: “Тауэр Хилл”, “גבעת המצודה”, “גבעת טאוור”, “טאוור היל”, and “タワーヒル刑場”
- Postal code: EC3
Places of Interest
Highlights: The Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aldgate and Butler’s Wharf.
Aldgate
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tower Hill
- Categories: hill, area of London, and locality
- Location: City of London, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.51012° or 51° 30′ 36″ north
Longitude
-0.07693° or 0° 4′ 37″ west
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGW6F+26
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Tower Hill” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تل البرج”
- Armenian: “Թաուեր Հիլ”
- Belarusian: “Таўэр-Хіл”
- Bulgarian: “Тауър Хил”
- Catalan: “Tower Hill”
- Chinese: “塔丘”
- Czech: “Tower Hill”
- Danish: “Tower Hill”
- Dutch: “Tower Hill”
- Esperanto: “Tura Monteto”
- French: “Tower Hill”
- Galician: “Tower Hill”
- German: “Tower Hill”
- Hebrew: “גבעת מצודת לונדון”
- Irish: “Tower Hill”
- Italian: “Tower Hill”
- Japanese: “タワー・ヒル”
- Korean: “타워힐”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tower Hill”
- Norwegian: “Tower Hill”
- Persian: “تاور هیل”
- Portuguese: “Tower Hill”
- Russian: “Тауэр-Хилл”
- Slovenian: “Tower Hill”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاور هیل”
- Spanish: “Tower Hill”
- Swedish: “Tower Hill, London”
- Swedish: “Tower Hill”
- Turkish: “Tower Hill”
- Ukrainian: “Тавер-Гілл”
- Ukrainian: “Тауер-Гілл”
- Urdu: “ٹاور ہل”
- Welsh: “Tower Hill”
- “Tower Hill”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Tower of London and East Smithfield.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Trinity House and CitizenM Tower of London.
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