Travel Reference
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Show your ticket, enter, check the posted daily event schedule, and consider catching a
one-hour Beefeater tour. The information booth is nearby. If you didn't get a free map on
the way in, pick one up at the bookstore up ahead (you may have to ask for it). WCs are
100 yards ahead.
When you're all set, go 50 yards straight ahead to the...
Traitor's Gate
This was the boat entrance to the Tower from the Thames. Princess Elizabeth, who was
a prisoner here before she became Queen Elizabeth I, was carried down the Thames and
through this gate on a barge, thinking about her mom, Anne Boleyn, who had been de-
capitated inside just a few years earlier. Many English leaders who fell from grace entered
through here—Elizabeth was one of the lucky few to walk out.
• Pass underneath the “Bloody Tower” into the inner courtyard. The big, white tower in
the middle is the...
