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Days out & attractions in Monument
Days out around Monument – castles, lakes, viewpoints, museums and more, including 5 in Monument itself. Each comes with a description, photo, address and map where available.
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🏰 Castles & stately homes
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🏞️ Lakes & lochs
Tower Dock
Tower Hill · 0.1 miles
An inlet of the River Thames lies immediately west of the Tower of London, forming the surviving head of what was once a larger dock. The water body, recorded on OpenStreetMap as a lake near Tower Hill, is the only remaining fragment after most of the dock was filled in during the late 1950s to make way for the former Three Quays House. Today the dock’s edge can be reached on foot from the Tower’s entrance complex, with no separate admission fee or visitor facilities noted. Historically the dock contributed to the defensibility of the Tower’s western gateway and marked part of the boundary of the Tower Liberty, an area that the Tower of London managed to keep clear of development. That boundary now forms part of the line between the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the City of London. The dock’s origin is unclear; it may represent a stretch of natural shoreline left when adjacent wharves were constructed, the first phase of Tower Wharf being extended into the river between 1276 and 1324. A 1623 report described the dock as the remaining portion of a moat surrounding the now-lost Bulwark, built around 1480. Further infill occurred in 1706 and, finally, in the late 1950s. An episode from 1617 records Walter Raleigh attempting to escape via a boat waiting at Tower Dock, only to be captured and taken to the Tower.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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🌄 Viewpoints
Sky Garden
Tower of London · 0.1 miles
Sky Garden viewpoint is accessible to all, and entry is free of charge. Tickets are available to book online on a weekly basis, up to three weeks in advance of your visit.
Fenchurch Street 20, London EC3M 3BY
Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa-Su,PH 11:00-21:00
The Garden at 120
Leadenhall Market · 0.1 miles
Fenchurch Street 120, London EC3M 5BA
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🏛️ Museums
Gordon Museum
Borough Market · 0.6 miles
A collection of human pathological specimens, the Gordon Museum of Pathology forms part of King’s College London’s medical teaching facilities. Situated on the Guy’s Campus near Borough Market, the museum holds roughly 8,000 items, ranging from early specimens dating to about 1608 to historic artefacts such as Joseph Lister’s antiseptic spray and Thomas Hodgkin’s first stethoscope used in England. Highlights include the original kidneys, adrenal glands and lymph nodes that enabled Thomas Hodgkin, Thomas Addison and Richard Bright to describe the eponymous diseases, as well as Joseph Towne’s anatomical wax models and Lam Qua’s pre-operative tumour paintings. The collection also contains the mummified remains of Alan Billis, a former taxi driver who participated in research on ancient Egyptian mummification. The museum opened in 1905 on King’s Guy’s Campus after a donation from the lawyer Robert Gordon and was intended solely as a teaching resource. Specimens began to be gathered in 1802 under the first medical curator Thomas Hodgkin, forming the basis of the museum when the first medical school opened in 1826. By 1829 the collection numbered about 3,000 exhibits, and contemporary reports in 1861 placed it among the nation’s foremost medical collections. Admission is free, although the museum is not generally open to the public and access is limited to educational use within the college.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Clink Prison Museum
Borough Market · 0.6 miles
Tower Bridge Exhibition
Butler's Wharf · 0.6 miles
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🌳 Parks & gardens
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🗿 Monuments & memorials
Lombard Street Ventilation Shaft Pillar
Tower of London · 0.1 miles
Ventilation shaft to the Bank and Monument station, with a London Underground roundel on top, in a pedestal form with decoration of birds of prey and vegetation.
Tower Hill Memorial
Tower Hill · 0.6 miles
Located in Trinity Square Gardens on Tower Hill, London, the memorial complex commemorates civilian, merchant seafarers and fishermen who lost their lives to enemy action and have no known grave. Two principal monuments dominate the site: the First World War memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and the Second World War memorial, by Sir Edward Maufe. Both feature bronze panels that list the missing, while the Lutyens structure presents a vaulted corridor reminiscent of a Doric temple. The Maufe garden is set below ground level, accessed by steps, and includes relief sculptures of the seven seas by Charles Wheeler together with two sentry figures representing a Merchant Navy sailor and an officer. The First World War memorial was commissioned after the loss of more than 17,000 merchant seafarers and the sinking of over 3,300 British and Empire-registered vessels. Queen Mary unveiled the Lutyens design on 12 December 1928 after a rejected river-bank arch proposal. The Second World War memorial, reflecting the higher toll of 4,786 ships and 32 000 lives, was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in November 1955, after which relatives were invited to lay flowers. A third addition, dedicated to merchant seamen killed in the 1982 Falklands conflict, was installed in 2005. Both war-time memorials are protected as listed buildings – the Mercantile Marine Memorial at grade I and the Merchant Seamen’s Memorial at grade II* – and form part of a national collection of Lutyens’ war memorials. The site is on Crown land, offers step-free wheelchair access, and can be reached via the surrounding gardens in the Tower Hill area.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
The Falklands War Memorial
Tower Hill · 0.6 miles
Commemorating merchant seamen who were killed in the 1982 Falklands War, was added to the site in 2005. It consists of a 3-metre (9.8-foot) bronze sundial, raised on a granite base; at the dial's centre is a large bronze anchor.
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🏚️ Ruins
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🏺 Archaeological sites
Billingsgate Roman House & Baths
Monument · 0.1 miles
Lower Thames Street 101, London EC3R 6DL
Tower Hill Postern
Tower Hill · 0.6 miles
Tower Hill, London
Guy's Hospital Roman Boat
Borough Market · 0.6 miles
Great Maze Pond, London SE1 3SS
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🖼️ Galleries
Guildhall Art Gallery
Barbican · 0.6 miles
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📸 Landmarks & sights
Bank of England
Tower of London · 0.6 miles
The Bank of England stands on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, opposite the historic Tower of London and at the junction known as Bank Junction. Often referred to as “The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street” after an 1797 cartoon, the building is listed as a heritage landmark and is operated by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. Founded in 1694 to serve as the English Government’s banker and debt manager, the institution has remained at the same site since the early 18th century. It functions as the United Kingdom’s central bank, overseeing monetary stability through the Bank Rate and quantitative easing, and supervising payment systems such as CHAPS. The bank also safeguards the nation’s official gold reserves and manages foreign-exchange holdings. Although it no longer provides consumer banking, it maintains a limited public service for exchanging superseded banknotes. Visitors can view the façade from the surrounding streets and observe the distinctive architecture that houses the world’s second-oldest central bank. The location is readily reachable on foot via Bank Junction, with the Tower of London a short walk away. No admission charge or dedicated visitor facilities are mentioned, and access is limited to external observation and the occasional public-facing service.
Threadneedle Street 8AH, London EC2R 8AH
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
City Hall
St Olave's Estate · 0.6 miles
Former City Hall, previous home of the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London.
The Queen's Walk
London Bridge Experience
Borough Market · 0.1 miles
View from the Shard
Borough Market · 0.6 miles
London Bridge Street 32, London SE1 9SG
St. Mary-Le-Bow
Tower of London · 0.6 miles
Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Distances are as the crow flies from Monument.
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