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  Place Tower Hill
  Borough Tower Hamlets
  Traditional Middlesex
  Constituency
  PostTown LONDON
  PostCode EC3
  DiallingCode 020
  GridReference TQ333806
  GLA City And East London


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 Execution s of high-profile criminals were carried out on the hill.

Among those executed there were:

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 .