Tower of London: History, Significance and Impacts as a World Heritage Site

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................3
TASK ...................................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
A world heritage site is basically a landmark or a region which is protected and secured with
the legal protection by an international group meeting managed by the UNESCO (united nations
educational, scientific and cultural organisation). The world heritage sites are basically selected by
UNESCO for having the social, cultural, scientific and historical or other various from of
significance. A world heritage site should be different and unique landmark which people can
identify easily in the terms of geographically and historically (Torres-González, and et. Al, 2021). A
world heritage site can be a monuments, building, historical structures and many more. A World
Heritage Site may intend a extraordinary achievement of humankind, and serve as evidence of
intellectual past or it might be a geographical region of outstanding natural beauty. The world
heritage site chosen for this respective report is tower of London which is situated in UK (Sesana,
and et. Al, 2020). The owner of the tower of London is queen Elizabeth 2 . This property is built up
in the area of 12 acres, the creation process was started in 1078 and finished in 1100. the following
report is going to cover the history and background of the tower of London, social, cultural and
economic advantages of the heritage site to UK and what are its adverse impacts.
TASK
William the conqueror has founded the tower of London after his well known success and
victory at Hastings in 1066 by using a big defensive Roman wall which is also known as the
London wall. Earlier it as known as the white tower but from the 12th century it has been known as
the tower of London. The tower was built in about 20 years and it was built the largest and the
strongest concentric castle and the medieval king also built splendid royal lodgings. In 13th century
the tower grasped another function. Between 1100 and 1952 around 8000 people were put behind
bars within its walls for committing crimes like murder, debt, sorcery etc. to protect their
possessions and themselves, the queen and the king used the tower when any mishap happened.
Arms and armours were developed, tested and stored in the tower of London until the 1800s
(Jimura, 2018). The tower of London was a royal residence, basically a complex of several
buildings within the two concentric rings of the defending walls. In the English history, the tower of
London has played a prominent role. To control the country it was important to control the tower of
London. The tower served as a prison, armoury, menagerie, treasury, royal mint, public record
office, and the crown jewels of England. There are basically three types of heritage sites: cultural,
natural and mixed. Cultural heritage sites are those which includes numerous of buildings,
archaeological sites, monumental sculpture etc. natural heritage sites are those which are restricted
to some specific areas. Theses sites refers to the natural characteristics, geological as well as