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The Liberties of the Tower, or the Tower Liberty was a liberty in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Central London, which includes both Tower Hill and the Tower of London. The area was defined sometime after 1200 to provide an open area around the Tower to ensure its defensibility.
- Tower Liberties
Die Tower Liberties oder Liberties of the Tower of London...
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The castle encloses an area of almost 12 acres (4.9...
- Tower Liberties
Seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert schränkten diverse Polizeigesetze die Rechte der Liberties ein und übertrugen die Befugnisse an die Stadt London. Ab 1855 gehörten Tower und Liberties zum Whitechapel District, seit 1900 zum Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, seit 1965 zum London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Residenz (1078 bis 1533) Im ...
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- London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- 11. Jahrhundert
- Vereinigtes Königreich
Die Baugeschichte des Tower of London spannt sich über fast 1000 Jahre. Auf den Resten der römischen Stadtmauer Londons ließ Wilhelm der Eroberer ab 1066 eine Burg und ab 1077/78 den White Tower, den ältesten erhaltenen Teil des Tower of London, errichten.
Royal palace. Infamous prison. When William the Conqueror built a mighty stone tower at the centre of his London fortress in the 1070s, defeated Londoners must have looked on in awe. Now nearly 1000 years later, the Tower still has the capacity to fascinate and horrify.
The precursor of the Liberties was laid out in the 13th century when Henry III ordered that a strip of land adjacent to the castle be kept clear. Despite popular fiction, the Tower of London never had a permanent torture chamber, although the basement of the White Tower housed a rack in later periods.
