The aforementioned views are a real high point, while the close proximity of the hill also offers easy access to the Tower of London and Tower Bridge themselves.

Plaques on the hill list notable London public figures who have met their end at the hands of the executioner in times gone by.

Whilst many of London's most high profile condemned were put to death in the Tower of London, many more were executed on a public scaffold atop Tower Hill.

Perhaps the most grisly execution seen on Tower Hill was the 1381 beheading of Archbishop of Canterbury Simon Sudbury, who was set upon by angry mob who administered his fate.