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London Wall

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Surviving chunks of the Roman and medieval wall that once ringed the City, free to find tucked between modern office towers.

Getting there. Best sections near Tower Hill station and around the Barbican and Museum of London.
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The Romans wrapped their city of Londinium in a great defensive wall around 200 AD, and astonishingly, lumps of it still survive, free to find, wedged between the office towers of the modern City. The finest stretch stands right by Tower Hill station, where you can see the Roman ragstone courses at the bottom and the medieval rebuilding above.

Following the line of the old wall makes a brilliant free self-guided walk, from Tower Hill up through the Barbican, where more sections survive among the postwar towers, past a statue of the emperor Trajan and the ghostly outlines of the old city gates remembered in street names like Aldgate and Ludgate.

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Start at the Tower Hill section, the tallest surviving piece, then follow the marked Wall Walk north toward the Barbican. The replica statue of Emperor Trajan stands right beside the Tower Hill stretch.
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