The area in and around the Tower which was free from the jurisdiction of the City of London. Initially the Liberties of the Tower were restricted to the area within its walls and the land on Tower Hill. Three territories were added by James II's charter of 1686: the Minories, the Artillery Ground and the Wellclose. The Liberties were formally abolished on 25 June 1894. OldLondonMaps gives a larger picture. British Listed Buildings gives more information about the markers, of which there are apparently 22 remaining. William Penn (of Pennsylvania fame) was born within the Liberty.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Tower Liberty
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Tower Liberty
We normally rotate our memorial pictures as necessary to make sure the statue...
Tower Liberty boundary
This marker was formerly attached to the western range of buildings at St Kat...
Other Subjects
Camille Pissarro
French Impressionist painter. Born in the Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands) to a French father, a merchant, and Creole mother. With Danish nationality he avoided the Prussian invasion o...
Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Caribbean Islands, Denmark, France
4 memorials
Gustav Landauer
Anarchist theorist. Born Germany. Also translated William Shakespeare into German. Beaten to death by soldiers while under arrest in Munich. Film director Mike Nichols is his grandson.
1 memorial
London Borough of Redbridge
Formed as a merger of various areas of Essex.
2 memorials
Sir Christopher Leaver, GBE DMus
Lord Mayor in 1981-2. Alderman on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994. A guest on Desert Island Discs in 1982 - at the picture source you can listen to his choices.
2 memorials
Michael Gove
Politician. Born in Edinburgh. He entered parliament in 2005, and in 2010 after the formation of the coalition government, was appointed Secretary of State for Education. He was criticised by the c...
1 memorial