Salt Tower - (Near City of London, london)

5 /5 Mickayla Stogsdill: 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 Underground stop).

5 /5 Hug Dealer: By the time we arrived, it was busy. Im excited looking around at the many towers here in London.

5 /5 Steven Cheng: You need to come early if you really like to avoid the crowds! This is the very first tower after you enter the castle! And I think it is the most interesting and magnificent tower of all!

5 /5 Irena Irina: 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 the Middle ages

4 /5 Koen: The Salt Tower was built in the late 1230s and is part of King Henry IIIs curtain wall which surrounds the castle. The Salt Tower was initially known as Julius Caesars Tower and later as Baliols 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 in this tower.