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PaulRobinson ◴[] No.45894039[source]
The Museum of London site (now closed as they prepare to move to their new site, coincidentally near the AWS HQ), and there was a window you could look down on part of the wall, which you can also see from the other side of the road near Barbican. I won't give directions, as that seems futile anywhere near Barbican, but I had only just thought about how weird it is that there is wall at Tower Hill, and wall at Barbican - they can't be the same run of wall as it was built, can they? That'd be immense...
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defrost ◴[] No.45894357[source]
From the article:

  London's original wall was 2 miles long, 6 metres high and almost 3 metres thick at its base
with a link to a graphic map and guide: https://colat.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/London-Wall-...

that states it ran from the Tower of London to the Museum in the Barbican.

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emmelaich ◴[] No.45895681[source]
There is a London Wall Walk, starting at the Tower of London. Text copied from the plaques at the postern: (thanks Google Lens)

>The London Wall Walk follows the original line of the City Wall for much of its length, from the royal fortress of the Tower of London to the Museum of London, situated in the modern high-rise development of the Barbican. Between these two landmarks the Wall Walk passes surviving pieces of the Wall visible to the public and the sites of the gates now buried deep beneath the City streets. It also passes close to eight of the surviving forty-one City churches. The Walk is 134 miles (2.8km) long and is marked by twenty-one panels which can be followed in either direction. Completion of the Walk will take between one and two hours. Wheelchairs can reach most individual sites although access is difficult at some points.

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1. defrost ◴[] No.45895820[source]
> The Walk is 134 miles (2.8km)

Google Lens appears to have missed the point here.

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2. IAmBroom ◴[] No.45901644[source]
Golf clap.