Monuments & Ruins

London Wall Walk

The Roman city's edge, walked in an hour: two miles of it survive in pieces, and the pieces are all free.

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The wall went up around AD 200, three kilometres of ragstone and red tile courses around Londinium, and the City's shape still follows it. This walk takes the surviving stretch from Tower Hill round to Aldersgate: the tallest standing section beside the statue of Trajan, the medieval arrow loops behind Cooper's Row, the bastion foundations under Vine Street, the fourteenth-century brick crenellations at St Alphage, and the corner of the earlier Cripplegate fort along Noble Street. Between them the wall is under the road, and the line of Wormwood Street and London Wall is the line of the wall itself. The City installed twenty-one tiled panels along the route in 1984 and around half remain.

Where

Tower Hill to Aldersgate, along the line of the Roman wall

Start

Tower Hill Gardens — Tower Hill

End

Aldersgate Street — St Paul's or Barbican

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