Greenwich

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51°29′N 0°00′E / 51.48°N 0.00°E / 51.48; 0.00

Greenwich (/ˈɡrɛnɪ/ GREN-itch, /-ɪ/ -⁠ij, /ˈɡrɪn-/ GRIN-[1][2]) is a town in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London. It is situated 5.5 miles (8.9 km) east-south-east of Charing Cross.

Greenwich is notable for its

Royal Naval Hospital for Sailors, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor. These buildings became the Royal Naval College in 1873, and they remained a military education establishment until 1998 when they passed into the hands of the Greenwich Foundation. The historic rooms within these buildings remain open to the public; other buildings are used by University of Greenwich and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
.

The town became a popular resort in the 18th century and many grand houses were built there, such as

Georgian period estates of houses were constructed above the town centre. The maritime connections of Greenwich were celebrated in the 20th century, with the siting of the Cutty Sark and Gipsy Moth IV next to the river front, and the National Maritime Museum in the former buildings of the Royal Hospital School
in 1934.

Historically an

ancient parish in the Blackheath Hundred of Kent, the town formed part of the growing conurbation of London in the 19th century. When the County of London, an administrative area designed to replace the Metropolitan Board of Works, was formed in 1889, the parish merged with those of Charlton-next-Woolwich, Deptford St Nicholas and Kidbrooke to create the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich. When local government in London was again reformed in 1965, it merged with most of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, creating what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich, a local authority district
of Greater London.

History

Toponymy

The place-name 'Greenwich' is first attested in an

Anglo-Saxon charter of 918, where it appears as Gronewic. It is recorded as Grenewic in 964, and as Grenawic in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1013. It is Grenviz in the Domesday Book of 1086, and Grenewych in the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of 1291. The name means 'green wic', indicating that Greenwich was what is known as a -wich town or emporium, from the Latin 'vicus'.[3]

The settlement later became known as East Greenwich to distinguish it from West Greenwich or Deptford Strond, the part of

council ward. An article in The Times of 13 October 1967 stated:[5]

East Greenwich, gateway to the Blackwall Tunnel, remains solidly working class, the manpower for one eighth of London's heavy industry. West Greenwich is a hybrid: the spirit of Nelson, the Cutty Sark, the Maritime Museum, an industrial waterfront and a number of elegant houses, ripe for development.

Manor of East Greenwich

St Helena,[7] often used the name of the manor of East Greenwich for describing the tenure (from the Latin verb teneo, hold) as that of free socage.[8] New England charters provided that the grantees should hold their lands "as of his Majesty's manor of East Greenwich". This was in relation to the principle of land tenure under English law, that the ruling monarch (king or queen) was paramount lord of all the soil in the terra regis,[9] while all others held their lands, directly or indirectly, under the monarch. Land outside the physical boundaries of England, as in America, was treated as belonging constructively to one of the existing royal manors, and from Tudor times grants frequently used the name of the manor of East Greenwich,[10] but some 17th-century grants named the castle of Windsor.[11][12][13] Places in North America that have taken the name "East Greenwich" include a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, a hamlet in Washington County, New York, and a town in Kent County, Rhode Island. Greenwich, Connecticut
was also named after Greenwich.

Early settlement

Prehistoric burial mounds in Greenwich Park

tesserae protected by railings marks the spot. It was excavated in 1902 and 300 coins were found dating from the emperors Claudius and Honorius to the 5th century. This was excavated by the Channel 4 television programme Time Team in 1999, broadcast in 2000,[15] and further investigations were made by the same group in 2003.[16]

The

Celtic route from Canterbury to St Albans.[17] As late as Henry V, Greenwich was only a fishing town, with a safe anchorage in the river.[4]

Viking

During the reign of

Alphege their prisoner for seven months in their camp at Greenwich, at that time within the county of Kent. They stoned him to death for his refusal to allow his ransom (3,000 pieces of silver) to be paid; and kept his body, until the blossoming of a stick that had been immersed in his blood. For this miracle his body was released to his followers, he achieved sainthood for his martyrdom and, in the 12th century, the parish church was dedicated to him. The present church on the site west of the town centre is St Alfege's Church, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor
in 1714 and completed in 1718.

Norman

The

Edward I is known to have made offerings at the chapel of the Virgin Mary.[19]

Plantagenet

Subsequent monarchs were regular visitors, with

friary of Observant Friars in Greenwich, this was done in 1485, two years after his death; the first Observant House in England, it was located on land adjacent to the palace.[20] After rejecting papal authority in 1534, the Franciscan Observants were suppressed; refounded as Franciscan Conventual, the friary was dissolved in 1538, then re-established in 1555 for Observants, before the friars were finally expelled in 1559 and the friary was demolished in 1662.[20]

Ultimately it was because the palace and its grounds were a royal possession (with a useful hill) that it was chosen as the site for

Prime Meridian
.

Tudor

The palace was the principal residence of

Elizabeth (7 September 1533) were born at Greenwich. His son Edward VI
also died there at age 15.

The palace of Placentia, in turn, became Elizabeth's favourite summer residence.[19] Both she and her sister Mary used the palace extensively, and Elizabeth's Council planned the Spanish Armada campaign there in 1588.

Stuart

Adriaen van Stalbemt's A View of Greenwich, c. 1632, showing King Charles I (in the black hat) and his family. Greenwich Palace can be seen in front of the River Thames behind them. Royal Collection, London.

James I carried out the final remodelling work on Greenwich Palace, granting the manor to his wife Queen Anne of Denmark. In 1616 Anne commissioned Inigo Jones to design and build the surviving Queen's House as the final addition to the palace.

Interregnum, the palace and park were seized to become a 'mansion' for the Lord Protector
.

By the time of the

Restoration, the Palace of Placentia had fallen into disuse and was pulled down. New buildings began to be established as a grand palace for Charles II, but only the King Charles block was completed. Charles II also redesigned and replanted Greenwich Park and founded and built the Royal Observatory
.

Prince James (later King

continued to patronise the project.

Hanoverian

George I landed at Greenwich from Hanover on his accession in 1714. His successor George II granted the Royal Hospital for Seamen the forfeited estates of the Jacobite Earl of Derwentwater, which allowed the building to be completed by 1751.

In 1805,

George III granted the Queen's House to the Royal Naval Asylum (an orphanage school), which amalgamated in 1821–1825 with the Greenwich Hospital School. Extended with the buildings that now house the National Maritime Museum, it was renamed the Royal Hospital School by Queen Victoria
in 1892.

were both regular donors and visitors to the gallery.

Victorian and Edwardian

In the 1880s, if this place is so cut into three: east, central and west zones of about 30,000 inhabitants each, the central one had less than 10% recognisable poverty, the minimum of London's map above, but the others (east and west) more than 40%.

Nelson's Trafalgar
coat for the Naval Gallery.

In 1838 the

London sewerage system
(the Southern Outfall Sewer flows under Greenwich town centre).

In 1853 the local Scottish Presbyterian community built a church, St Mark's, nearby which was extended twice in the 1860s during the ministry of Adolph Saphir, eventually accommodating 1,000 worshippers.[21][22]

In 1864 opposite the railway terminus, theatrical entrepreneur Sefton Parry built the thousand seater New Greenwich Theatre.[23] William Morton was one of its more successful managers. The theatre was demolished in 1937 to make way for a new Town Hall, now a listed building under new ownership and renamed Meridian House.[24]

Our Ladye Star of the Sea

Greenwich Station is at the northern apex of the Ashburnham Triangle, a residential estate developed by the Ashburnham family, mainly between 1830 and 1870, on land previously developed as market gardens. It is now a designated conservation area.

Croom's Hill, was constructed inside the shell of a Victorian music hall. Beginning life in 1855 as an annexe to the Rose and Crown, the music hall was rebuilt in 1871 by Charles Crowder and subsequently operated under many names. Further south on Croom's Hill, the Roman Catholic church of Our Ladye Star of the Sea was opened in 1851.[26]

The meridian was established in 1851.

Modern and the present

George V and Queen Mary both supported the creation of the National Maritime Museum, and Mary presented the museum with many items.

The Prince Albert, Duke of York (later George VI), laid the foundation stone of the new Royal Hospital School when it moved out to Holbrook, Suffolk. In 1937 his first public act as king (three weeks before coronation) was to open the National Maritime Museum in the buildings vacated by the school. The king was accompanied by his mother Queen Mary, his wife Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) and the Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II.)

Princess Elizabeth and her consort

patron. The Duke of Edinburgh was also a patron of the Cutty Sark
(which was opened by the Queen in 1957) from 1952.

During the

P&O ship Pacific Princess when it moored alongside the Old Royal Naval College
for the company's 150th-anniversary celebrations.

To mark the

Governance

The former Greenwich Town Hall, now known as "Meridian House"
A map showing the wards of Greenwich Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.

Greenwich is covered by the Greenwich West and Peninsula wards of the London Borough of Greenwich, which was formed in 1965 by merging the former

Greenwich and Woolwich; currently the MP is Matthew Pennycook.[29]

Geography

Geography of Greenwich

The town of Greenwich is built on a broad platform to the south of the outside of a broad meander in the River Thames, with a safe deep water anchorage lying in the river. To the south, the land rises steeply, 100 feet (30 m) through Greenwich Park to the town of Blackheath. The higher areas consist of a sedimentary layer of gravelly soils, known as the Blackheath Beds, that spread through much of the south-east over a chalk outcrop—with sands, loam and seams of clay at the lower levels by the river.

Greenwich is bordered by

A2 and Blackheath to the south. The Greenwich Peninsula
, also known as North Greenwich, forms the main projection of the town (to the northeast of the town centre).

Nearby areas

The northwards view from Greenwich Park (in 2007), with the Queen's House and the wings of the National Maritime Museum in the foreground

Climate

This data was collected between 2005 and 2015 at the weather station in Greenwich:

Historically, the record high is 100 °F (38 °C) on 9 August 1911. This was the record for London until 2003, though it was disregarded due to non-standard instruments.[30]

Greenwich has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb) with warm summers and cool winters.

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 16.8
(62.2)
19.7
(67.5)
23.3
(73.9)
25.3
(77.5)
29.0
(84.2)
34.5
(94.1)
35.3
(95.5)
37.5
(99.5)
30.2
(86.4)
26.1
(79.0)
18.9
(66.0)
16.4
(61.5)
37.5
(99.5)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 8.5
(47.3)
9.2
(48.6)
12.1
(53.8)
15.4
(59.7)
18.6
(65.5)
21.4
(70.5)
23.8
(74.8)
23.3
(73.9)
20.3
(68.5)
15.8
(60.4)
11.6
(52.9)
8.9
(48.0)
15.8
(60.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) 5.9
(42.6)
6.2
(43.2)
8.4
(47.1)
10.7
(51.3)
13.8
(56.8)
16.7
(62.1)
18.8
(65.8)
18.7
(65.7)
15.9
(60.6)
12.4
(54.3)
8.8
(47.8)
6.3
(43.3)
11.9
(53.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 3.4
(38.1)
3.2
(37.8)
4.7
(40.5)
6.0
(42.8)
9.1
(48.4)
12.0
(53.6)
13.9
(57.0)
14.1
(57.4)
11.6
(52.9)
9.0
(48.2)
6.1
(43.0)
3.8
(38.8)
8.1
(46.6)
Record low °C (°F) −12.7
(9.1)
−9.4
(15.1)
−6.7
(19.9)
−4.8
(23.4)
−1.0
(30.2)
1.1
(34.0)
5.0
(41.0)
5.3
(41.5)
1.1
(34.0)
−2.1
(28.2)
−8.0
(17.6)
−10.5
(13.1)
−12.7
(9.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 43.9
(1.73)
39.9
(1.57)
36.5
(1.44)
38.6
(1.52)
44.0
(1.73)
49.3
(1.94)
36.3
(1.43)
53.0
(2.09)
52.4
(2.06)
58.3
(2.30)
59.9
(2.36)
50.7
(2.00)
562.9
(22.16)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 10.5 9.2 7.9 8.1 7.9 7.8 7.1 8.2 7.9 10.3 10.6 10.2 105.6
Mean monthly sunshine hours 44.4 66.1 109.7 152.9 198.7 198.6 209.2 198.0 140.6 99.7 58.5 50.1 1,526.4
Source 1: Met Office[31][32][33]
Source 2: Starlings Roost Weather[34][35]

Sites of interest

Riverfront

RFA Argus being towed to Greenwich in June 2017

The Cutty Sark (a clipper ship) has been preserved in a dry dock by the river. A major fire in May 2007 destroyed a part of the ship, although much had already been removed for restoration. Nearby for many years was also displayed Gipsy Moth IV, the 54 feet (16.5 m) yacht sailed by Sir Francis Chichester in his single-handed, 226-day circumnavigation of the globe during 1966–67. In 2004, Gipsy Moth IV was removed from Greenwich, and after restoration work completed a second circumnavigation in May 2007. On the riverside in front of the north-west corner of the hospital is an obelisk erected in memory of Arctic explorer Joseph René Bellot.

Boats at Greenwich at the end of the Great River Race
The Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender moored on the riverfront at Greenwich in 2015

Near the Cutty Sark site, a circular building contains the entrance to the

Greenwich Hospital painted by Canaletto
can be seen.

Rowing has been part of life on the river at Greenwich for hundreds of years and the first Greenwich Regatta was held in 1785. The annual Great River Race along the Thames Tideway finishes at the Cutty Sark. The nearby Trafalgar Rowing Centre in Crane Street is home to Curlew and Globe rowing clubs.

The

James 'Athenian' Stuart. The Naval College had a training reactor, the JASON reactor, within the King William building that was operational between 1962 and 1996. The reactor was decommissioned and removed in 1999.[37]

Trinity Hospital, Greenwich

To the east of the Naval College is the

London underground, it is now oil- and gas-powered and serves as a backup station for London Underground.[39] East Greenwich also has a small park, East Greenwich Pleasaunce
, which was formerly the burial ground of Greenwich Hospital.

Charlton. Pear Tree Wharf was associated with the gas works, being used to unload coal for the manufacturing of town gas, and is now home to the Greenwich Yacht Club. The Greenwich Millennium Village is a modern urban regeneration development to the south of the Dome. Enderby's Wharf is a site associated with submarine cable
manufacture for over 150 years.

Greenwich Park

South of the former Naval College is the

Royal Park of 183 acres (0.7 km2), laid out in the 17th century and formed from the hunting grounds of the Royal Palace of Placentia.[41]

Spiral staircase and lantern at the Queen's House in Greenwich

The park rises towards

Prime Meridian
passes through this building.

Greenwich Mean Time was at one time based on the time observations made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, before being superseded by the closely related Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). While there is no longer a working astronomical observatory at Greenwich, a ball still drops daily to mark the exact moment of 1 p.m., and there is a museum of astronomical and navigational tools, particularly John Harrison's marine chronometers.[43]

The Ranger's House lies at the Blackheath end of the park and houses the Wernher Collection of art,[44] and many fine houses, including Vanbrugh's house lie on Maze Hill, on the western edge of the park.

Town centre

A curving street with older two- and three-storey buildings on either side. In front is a black London taxicab with an advert; midway down the street is an intersection with heavy traffic. A cupolaed clock tower rises in the rear
Town centre

Around the covered Greenwich Market, Georgian and Victorian architecture dominates in the town centre which spreads to the west of the park and Royal Naval College. Up the hill from the centre, there are many streets of Georgian houses, including the Fan Museum, on Croom's Hill. Nearby, at the junction of Croom's Hill with Nevada Street, is Greenwich Theatre; at the eastern end of Nevada Street is the Greenwich Tavern. To the west, the arthouse Greenwich Cinema is on Greenwich High Road, while the nearby Greenwich Playhouse closed in 2012.

Market

An interior of a building with a translucent glass roof supported by blue-painted steel latticework. On the main floor are a number of different stalls with customers inspecting various wares.
Greenwich Market

There has been a market at Greenwich since the 14th century, but the history of the present market dates from 1700 when a charter to run two markets, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, was assigned by Lord Romney (Henry, Earl of Romney)[19] to the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital for 1000 years.[45]

The market is part of "the island site", bounded by College Approach, Greenwich Church Street,

Grade 2 listed and were established in 1827–1833 under the direction of Joseph Kay.[46][47]
A market roof was added in 1902–1908 (and replaced in 2016). Later significant development occurred in 1958–1960 and during the 1980s.

The landowner, Greenwich Hospital, enhanced the market between 2014 and early 2016. Following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 the rents for several of the market stalls were increased by up to 60% as Greenwich Hospital's managing agent Knight Frank said it was losing money with fewer stalls operating and only four days of trading a week.[48]

Millennium Leisure Park

Millennium Leisure Park

About 1.0 mile (1.6 km) east of Greenwich town centre, the Millennium Leisure Park is an out-of-town retail park on Bugsby's Way in east Greenwich. It consists of retail outlets (IKEA and B&Q), restaurants and an Odeon cinema. The IKEA store here opened in 2019 as the retailer's fourth main store in London,[49] following stores in Wembley (1988), Croydon (1992) and Tottenham (2005); the Greenwich store is the first in Inner London.[50]

Greenwich Shopping Park is about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) further east, in Charlton.

Greenwich Mean Time

The Royal Observatory with the time ball atop the Octagon Room

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a term originally referring to

Zulu time
.

As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT in order to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees (this convention was internationally adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884).[note 1] The synchronization of the chronometer on GMT did not affect shipboard time itself, which was still solar time. But this practice, combined with mariners from other nations drawing from Nevil Maskelyne's method of lunar distances based on observations at Greenwich, eventually led to GMT being used worldwide as a reference time independent of location. Most time zones were based upon this reference as a number of hours and half-hours "ahead of GMT" or "behind GMT".

In recognition of the suburb's astronomical links, Asteroid 2830 has been named 'Greenwich'.[53]

World Heritage Site

Maritime Greenwich
UNESCO World Heritage Site
LocationUnited Kingdom
CriteriaCultural: i, ii, iv, vi
Reference795
Inscription1997 (21st Session)
Extensions2008
Area109.5 hectares (271 acres)
Buffer zone174.85 hectares (432.1 acres)
Websitewhc.unesco.org/en/list/795
Coordinates51°29′1″N 0°0′21″W / 51.48361°N 0.00583°W / 51.48361; -0.00583

In 1997 Maritime Greenwich was added to the list of World Heritage Sites, for the concentration and quality of buildings of historic and architectural interest. These can be divided into the group of buildings along the riverfront, Greenwich Park and the Georgian and Victorian town centre.

Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre

Pepys Building

The Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre provides an introduction to the history and attractions in the Greenwich

Greenwich Hospital
); the building began life as an engineering laboratory for the college. The centre opened in March 2010, and admission is free.

The Centre explains the history of Greenwich as a royal residence and a maritime centre. Exhibits include:

  • The history of the Palace of Placentia.
  • Models of
    Greenwich Hospital
    .
  • Six of the carved heads originally intended to decorate the exterior of the college's
    Painted Hall
    .
  • Exhibition displays about Maritime Greenwich and its connections with the sea and exploration.
  • "By Wisdom as much as War" – an exhibition about the history of the Royal Naval College during the years it occupied Greenwich Hospital (1873–1998).

Education

The

Trinity College of Music
.

Secondary schools in the area include The John Roan School, founded 1677, and St Ursula's Convent School, established 1850.

Transport

Greenwich station

National Rail

Greenwich is served by

London Blackfriars and to Rainham
.

London Underground

The area is also served by

Stratford
.

DLR

Greenwich is served by the

Lewisham
.

Buses

Greenwich is served by many London Buses routes.

Boat

There are a number of river boat services running from

Waterloo and Tower piers.[56]

Pedestrian and cycle routes

The

National Trail runs along the riverside.[57] The Greenwich foot tunnel provides pedestrian access to the southern end of the Isle of Dogs
, across the river Thames.

The National Cycle Network Route 1 includes the foot tunnel, though cycling is not permitted in the tunnel itself.[58]

Sports

Rowing

Greenwich is home to a variety of amateur sports clubs. Its location on the tidal Thames makes it a good location for rowing; the Trafalgar Rowing Centre in Crane Street is the clubhouse of the Curlew and Globe rowing clubs.[59][60] The Globe has senior and junior squads, the latter renowned for its achievements at national and international level.[61]

Running

The Thames Path and Greenwich Park are popular with runners. The 'red start' for the London Marathon is situated south of the park on Charlton Way (other starts are nearby in St John's Park, and on Shooter's Hill Road).[62] After heading east through Charlton and Woolwich, the marathon route then turns west towards Greenwich; as runners reach the 10 km mark (6.2-mile), they pass the Old Royal Naval College and then loop around the prow of the Cutty Sark before continuing west towards Deptford.[62]

Golf

The Greenwich Peninsula Golf Range at North Greenwich is a riverside golf driving range with 60 bays, a mini 18-hole adventure course, golf academy, golf shop and restaurant.[63]

Twin towns

The

better source needed
]

Literature

Edward Lear makes reference to Greenwich in More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc:[66]

There was a young lady of Greenwich,
Whose garments were bordered with Spinach;
But a large spotty calf
Bit her shawl quite in half,
Which alarmed that young lady of Greenwich.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Voting took place on 13 October and the resolutions were adopted on 22 October 1884.[52]

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