Salt Tower — Attraction in London

The Salt Tower was built in the late 1230s and is part of King Henry III's curtain wall which surrounds the castle. The Salt Tower was initially known as Julius Caesar's Tower and later as Baliol's Tower. It is possible that the tower came to be referred to as the 'Salt Tower' as in medieval England salt was extremely expensive and could only be afforded by the higher nobility, but a more simple explanation is that salt was traditionally stored...

Salt Tower ( later 1230?)was originally called the Tower of Julius Caesar, then called the Balliol Tower( in honor of the Scottish king imprisoned in it). Presumably, the name "Salt"was learned from the salt stored in it, which traditionally was an expensive commodity in...

Worth the stroll around the castle and tower - lots of historical areas near the Tube entrance, including parts of the original tower (that they explored when building the...