Tower Ditch

TheTower Ditch, or Tower Moat, was part of the Tower of London’s medieval defences. It was built by the Bishop of Ely while King Richard I was crusading in the Holy Land (1187-1192) (Harben). The ditch was used as a dumping ground for plague victim corpses, human waste from the Tower, and meat carcasses from East Smithfield market.
On the Agas map, the ditch surrounds the Tower of London.

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MLA citation

Adams, Neil. Tower Ditch. The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 26 Jun. 2020, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/TOWE6.htm.

Chicago citation

Adams, Neil. Tower Ditch. The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 26, 2020. https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/TOWE6.htm.

APA citation

Adams, N. 2020. Tower Ditch. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/TOWE6.htm.

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TEI citation

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Disambiguation for the Tower

The Tower of London describes the whole complex of the tower. Tower Ditch forms the boundary around the Tower of London and Little Tower Hill and Tower Hill are important places of execution.

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