Fortified prisons this atlas records under Fortifications and Military Architecture: former military fortifications repurposed or purpose-built to hold prisoners, combining this subcategory's own defensive-architecture character with a penal function. Belongs here: any fortified prison this subcategory records. Does not belong here: a fort, castle or citadel with no penal function, gathered under one of this subcategory's other groups.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia, Tower of London, founding section, era
It was founded toward the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest.
Wikipedia: Tower of London, Lead section
The zenith of the castle's use as a prison was the 16th and 17th centuries, when many figures who had fallen into disgrace, such as Elizabeth I before she became queen, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Elizabeth Throckmorton, were held within its walls.
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