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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 central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open ...
The White Tower seen from the southeast. To the fore is the projection housing the apse of St John's Chapel. The White Tower 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. The White Tower was the castle's strongest point ...
London's two other castles, Baynard's Castle and Montfichet's Tower, may have also been begun under William I. [23] There was also some fortification at the Palace of Westminster, the only part of which remains is the 14th-century Jewel Tower. [37] As London became more politically important in this period, it acquired grand government halls.
The ravens of the Tower of London are a group [a] of at least six captive ravens (nine in 2021) [3] resident at the Tower of London. [4] Their presence is traditionally believed to protect the Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it."
The Tower spans 12 acres of the city, a maze of cobbled streets and imposing stone buildings, with London skyscrapers in the distance, poking out behind the Tower’s medieval buildings.
'Tower Hamlets' was originally an alternative name for the historic Tower Division; the area of south-east Middlesex, focused on (but not limited to) the area of the modern borough, which owed military service to the Tower of London. The Tower of London itself is located in the borough, adjacent to its western boundary with the City of London.