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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Quarter
- Description: hill and neighbourhood in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Postal code: EC3
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
The Tower of London
Photo: Aniacra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 River Thames in London, England.
Tower Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Barcex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel.
Fenchurch Street railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fenchurch Street railway station, also known as London Fenchurch Street, is a central London railway terminus in the southeastern corner of the City of London.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aldgate and Butler’s Wharf.
Aldgate
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Aldgate was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London. The gate gave its name to Aldgate 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.
Butler’s Wharf
Neighborhood
Photo: Gürkan Sengün, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Butler's Wharf is an English historic building at Shad Thames on the south bank of the River Thames, just east of London's Tower Bridge, now housing luxury flats and restaurants.
Tower Hill
- Categories: hill, area of London, and locality
- Location: City of London, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51012° or 51° 30′ 36″ northLongitude
-0.07693° or 0° 4′ 37″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
9C3XGW6F+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 9545495617OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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Satellite Map
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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 המצודה”
- Hebrew: “גבעת טאוור”
- Hebrew: “גבעת מצודת לונדון”
- Hebrew: “טאוור היל”
- Irish: “Tower Hill”
- Italian: “Tower Hill”
- Japanese: “タワー・ヒル”
- Japanese: “タワーヒル刑場”
- Korean: “타워힐”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tower Hill”
- Norwegian: “Tower Hill”
- Persian: “تاور هیل”
- Portuguese: “Tower Hill”
- Russian: “Тауэр Хилл”
- 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tower Hill”. Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 3.0.