S tanding tall at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, the Monument to the Great Fire of London is a ...

- The Monument to the Great Fire of London, known as the Monument, marks exactly where the fire started. It was erected in 1677. - The top of the Monument is reached by a narrow staircase of more ...

The Monument is, far and away, the most famous column marking the Great Fire, but there is another. Head into Inner Temple and there, just south of Temple church (more widely famous from the Da ...

A woman from London has become the first wheelchair user to climb the Great Fire of London Monument. Anahita Harding, an artist from Lewisham, south London, climbed the 311-step building using ...

The 202ft-tall Monument — which stands 202ft from the site of the bakery in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire of London was sparked off 350 years ago — is one of the strangest and most ...

On Sunday, September 2, 1666, London caught on fire. The city burned through Wednesday, and the fire—now known as The Great Fire of London—destroyed the homes of 70,000 out of the 80,000 ...

The Great Fire of London broke out on Sunday, September 2, 1666. ... The Monument was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and put up in 1677 as a permanent memorial to the Great Fire. 5.

Christopher Wren's Monument to The Great Fire Of London is to have a new neighbour. ... The column stands 202ft from where the 1666 Great Fire started in a bakery.

During the fire, rumours started to spread that it was French and Dutch agents who wanted to see London destroyed. In the weeks before the Great Fire of London England had been at war with them.