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Tower Hill is located on an elevated spot north west of the Tower of London, (it actually across the street from the Tower) this is where the “public” executions took place. Today on the hill there is a monument to the members of the Merchant Navy and the fishing fleets of Britain that were lost during both World Wars. There are twelve thousand names inscribed on the walls of the monument and in the gardens behind it. (Since I didn’t know exactly what that was I didn’t investigate further) To see more on the monument visit Merchant Navy Memorial: www.merchantnavymemorial.com The following names of some of the high profile executions that took place on Tower Hill : Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury (beheaded on Tower Hill by an angry mob) - 1381 James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, one of the commanders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 who was beheaded on 28 June 1497 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham - 1521 John Fisher - 1535 Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor - 1535 George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford - 1536 Lord Guilford Dudley - 1554 Sir Anthony Babington - 1586 Sir Gervase Helwys - 1615 Mervyn Tuchet, otherwise Audley, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven - 1631 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury - 1645 Sir Henry Vane the Younger - 1662 James Crofts (Scott), 1st Duke of Monmouth - 1685 William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock - 1746 Robert Boyd of Clan Boyd 1746 Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat - 1747