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 The
Tower of London is by far one of the most famous and well preserved
historical buildings in the world. From its earliest structural
beginnings by its founder William I of England better known as
William the Conqueror 1066-87.
The Great Tower or White Tower as it later came to be called was
fast becoming the most talked about building in England. The White
Tower was also frightening structure to the Anglo Saxon people who
were trying to get used to the rule of their new Norman king (Harold
II).
Within three months of his victory William the Conqueror had
begun to build a castle on the north bank of the river Thames in
London.
Beginning life as a simple timber and earth enclosure tucked in the
south-east angle formed by the joining of the original east and
south stone walls of the old Roman town of Londinium Augusta, the
original structure was completed by the addition of a ditch and
palisade along the north and west sides.
Avebury
Dartmoor Roman bath Stonehenge
Big Ben
Nelsons Cliffs Dover
Hadrian's Wall
Parliament
Lands End
Shakespeare
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