A Reason to StopFree on the App Store

Tower of London

The Norman fortress that grew into a royal palace and prison, still patrolled by Yeoman Warders and holding the Crown Jewels behind the White Tower.

Open in A Reason to StopFree on the App Store. iPhone, iOS 26 or later.
Tower of London, the Norman fortress
Photo: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Did you know

The first recorded prisoner in the Tower, Bishop Ranulf Flambard, was also the first to escape, using a rope smuggled in a butt of wine.

Local tip

A Yeoman Warder guided tour is included in your ticket (the last one is at 15:15), so plan your arrival around one. Doors opened at 09:00 Tuesday to Saturday and 10:00 on Sunday and Monday on the September 2026 timetable, and adult tickets were £37.

Finding it

Address
London EC3N 4AB
Nearest station
Tower Hill (Tube), 223 m away

Details change, so check with the place before you set off.

More places nearby

  • Tower BridgeLandmark · 250 m awayThe blue-and-white Victorian bascule bridge you can walk inside, with glass-floored high-level walkways about 42 metres above the Thames and the original steam engines in its Victorian engine rooms.
  • St Katharine DocksHidden gem · 350 m awayCentral London's only marina, just east of Tower Bridge, built in 1828 to a Thomas Telford design and converted from a working commercial dock into a yacht-filled waterside quarter of shops, pubs and restaurants.
  • St Dunstan in the EastLandmark · 450 m awayA church gutted in the Blitz and left as a ruin, now a public garden with ivy climbing through the Gothic window frames.
  • Garden at 120Viewpoint · 550 m awayA free public roof garden on the 15th floor of a City office building, London's largest of its kind with sweeping 360-degree views.

More landmarks

See all 58 landmarks in London