Execution site

The Tower Hill Scaffold

Trinity Square Gardens, London

Where Thomas More and many others lost their heads.

Public beheadings of high-ranking prisoners took place on Tower Hill, just outside the Tower of London. Sir Thomas More was executed here in 1535, and the Duke of Monmouth in 1685, when the executioner took several blows.

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When: 1388–1780
Where: 51.5098, -0.0766
Group: Gibbets & executions

Visiting

Trinity Square Gardens, near Tower Hill Tube station.

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