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History

Toponymy
So named by Old Norse settlers, Greenwich (Old English equivalent ''Grenewic'') means the ''green'' place on the bay (''vig'', ''wich'') or near the mouth of a river (similarly, Schleswig, Sandwich, Kent).Cobham Brewer E. ''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'', Odhams, London, 1932 The settlement later became known as ''East Greenwich'' to distinguish it from ''West Greenwich'' or ''Deptford Strond'', the part of Deptford adjacent to the Thames,[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=53781 ''Parishes: Greenwich'', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 1 (1797), pp. 372–420] but the use of ''East Greenwich'' to mean the whole of the town of Greenwich died out in the 19th century. However, Greenwich was divided into the registration subdistricts of ''Greenwich East'' and ''Greenwich West'' from the beginning of civil registration in 1837, the boundary running down what is now Greenwich Church Street and Crooms Hill, although more modern references to "''East''" and "''West''" Greenwich probably refer to the areas east and west of the Old Royal Naval College and National Maritime Museum corresponding with the West Greenwich Ward (politics). An article in ''The Times'' of 13 October 1967 stated:

:''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."Greenwich-the instant village", Brandon Green, ''The Times'', 13 October 1967; pg. 11

Early settlement
Tumulus to the south-west of Flamsteed House,Flamsteed House – designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1675–76, was the home of the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, and the heart of Charles II's new Royal Observatory. in Greenwich Park, are thought to be early Bronze Age barrows re-used by the Saxons in the 6th century as burial grounds. To the east between the Vanbrugh and Maze Hill Gates is the site of a Roman villa or temple. A small area of red paving tesserae protected by railings marks the spot. It was excavated in 1902 and 300 coins were found dating from the emperors Claudius and Honorius (emperor) to the 5th century. This was excavated by the Channel 4 programme Time Team in 2000, and further investigations were made by the same group in 2003.

The Roman road from London to Dover, Watling Street crossed the high ground to the south of Greenwich, through Blackheath. This followed the line of an earlier Celtic route from Canterbury to St Albans.''The Roman Watling Street: from London to High Cross'' O. Roucoux, (Dunstable Museum Trust, 1984) ISBN 0-9508406-2-9 As late as Henry V of England, Greenwich was only a fishing town, with a safe anchorage in the river.

Viking
During the reign of Ethelred the Unready, the Danes (Germanic tribe) fleet anchored in the River Thames off Greenwich for over three years, with the army being encamped on the hill above. From here they attacked Kent and, in the year 1012, took the city of Canterbury, making Archbishop Alphege their prisoner for seven months in their camp at Greenwich. 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, Greenwich, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1714 and completed in 1718. Some vestiges of the Danish camps may be traced in the names of Eastcombe and Westcombe Park, on the borders of nearby Blackheath, London.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45486 'Greenwich', The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 426–93] accessed: 26 May 2007

Norman
The Domesday Book records the manor of Greenwich as held by Bishop Odo of Bayeux; his lands were seized by the crown in 1082. A royal palace, or hunting lodge, has existed here since before 1300, when Edward I is known to have made offerings at the chapel of the Virgin Mary.

Plantagenet
Subsequent monarchs were regular visitors, with Henry IV of England making his will here, and Henry V, King of England granting the manor (for life) to Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, who died at Greenwich in 1426. The palace was created by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Henry V's half-brother and the regent to Henry VI of England in 1447; enclosing the park and erecting a tower on the spot of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. It was renamed the Palace of Placentia or Pleasaunce by Henry VI of England's consort Margaret of Anjou after Humphrey's death. The palace was completed and further enlarged by Edward IV of England, and in 1466 it was granted to his queen, Elizabeth Woodville.

Tudor
The palace was the principal residence of Henry VII of England whose sons Henry (later Henry VIII of England) and Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset were born here, and baptised in St Alphege's. Henry favoured Greenwich over nearby Eltham Palace, the former principal royal palace. He extended Greenwich Palace and it became his principal London seat until Whitehall Palace was built in the 1530s. Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves at Greenwich, and both Mary I of England (February 18, 1516) and Elizabeth I of England (September 7, 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. Both she and her sister Mary I used the palace extensively, and Elizabeth's Council planned the Spanish Armada campaign there in 1588.

Stuart
James I carried out the final remodelling work on Greenwich Palace, granting the manor to his wife 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.

Charles I of England granted the manor to his wife Queen Henrietta Maria, for whom Inigo Jones completed the Queen's House. During the English Civil War, the palace was used as a biscuit factory and prisoner-of-war camp. Then, in the English Interregnum, the palace and park were seized to become a 'mansion' for the Lord Protector.

By the time of the Restoration (1660), 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 of England, but only the King Charles block was completed. Charles II also redesigned and replanted Greenwich Park and founded and built the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

James II, as Duke of York and Lord Admiral until 1673, was often at Greenwich with his brother Charles and, according to Samuel Pepys, he proposed the idea of creating a Royal Naval Hospital. This was eventually established at Greenwich by his daughter Mary II of England, who in 1692-1693 commissioned Christopher Wren to design the Royal Hospital for Seamen (now the Old Royal Naval College). The work was begun under her widower William III of England in 1696 and completed by Hawksmoor. Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Prince George of Denmark continued to patronise the project.

Hanoverian

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

In 1805, George III of the United Kingdom 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.

George IV donated nearly 40 paintings to the hospital in 1824, at a stroke creating a gallery in the Painted Hall. These now form the Greenwich Hospital Collection at the National Maritime Museum. Subsequently William IV of the United Kingdom and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were both regular donors and visitors to the gallery.

Victorian, Edwardian, modern and the present

Queen Victoria rarely visited Greenwich but in 1845 her husband Prince Albert personally bought Admiral Nelson Battle of Trafalgar coat for the Naval Gallery.

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

The then George VI of the United Kingdom, laid the foundation stone of the new Royal Hospital School when it moved out to Holbrook, Suffolk, 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. George was accompanied by Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (Bowes-Lyon) and the Elizabeth II.

The then Princess Elizabeth and her consort being the then Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (who was ennobled Baron Greenwich on marriage in 1947) made their first public and official visit to Greenwich in 1948 to receive the Freedom of the Borough for Philip. In the same year, Philip became trustee of the National Maritime Museum. Philip, now the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was a trustee for 52 years until 2000, when he became its first patron. The Duke of Edinburgh has also been a patron of the Cutty Sark (which was opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1957) since 1952.

During the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II of 1977, Queen Elizabeth embarked at Greenwich for the Jubilee River Pageant. In 1987 Queen Elizabeth was aboard the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ship Pacific Princess when it moored alongside the Old Royal Naval College for the company's 150th anniversary celebrations.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, it was announced on 5 January 2010 that on 3 February 2012 the Royal Borough of Greenwich would become the fourth to have Royal Borough status, the others being the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.See also List of UK place names with royal patronage#Royal Borough. The status was granted in recognition of the borough's historic links with the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, the location of the Prime Meridian and its being a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Greenwich (, or {{cite encyclopedia | year = 2001 | title = Greenwich Mean Time | encyclopedia = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | accessdate = July 6, 2011 | url = http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Greenwich+Mean+Time

Governance

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 Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich with that part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich which lay south of The Thames. Along with Blackheath, London Westcombe, Charlton, London, Glyndon, Woolwich Riverside, and Woolwich Common, it elects a Member of Parliament (MP) for Greenwich and Woolwich; currently the MP is Nick Raynsford. Greenwich (, or {{cite encyclopedia | year = 2001 | title = Greenwich Mean Time | encyclopedia = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | accessdate = July 6, 2011 | url = http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Greenwich+Mean+Time

Geography

Topography
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, through Greenwich Park to the town of Blackheath, London. 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 River Ravensbourne and Deptford to the west; the former industrial centre of the Greenwich Peninsula and the residential area of Westcombe Park to the east; the River Thames to the north; and the A2 road (Great Britain) and Blackheath to the south.

Nearby Areas
*Deptford
*Blackheath, London
*St Johns, London
*Westcombe Park
*New Cross
*Lewisham
*Kidbrooke
*Charlton, London
*Peckham
*Nunhead
*Catford
*Woolwich



Climate
This data was collected between 1971 and 2000 at the weather station situated in Greenwich: Greenwich (, or {{cite encyclopedia | year = 2001 | title = Greenwich Mean Time | encyclopedia = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | accessdate = July 6, 2011 | url = http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Greenwich+Mean+Time

Sites of interest

Riverfront
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 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.



Near the Cutty Sark site, a circular building contains the entrance to the Greenwich foot tunnel, opened on 4 August 1902. This connects Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs on the northern side of the River Thames. The north exit of the tunnel is at Island Gardens,[http://www.greenwich-guide.org.uk/tunnel.htm ''The Foot Tunnel'' (Greenwich Guide)] accessed 10 December 2007 from where the famous view of Greenwich Hospital (London) 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 Rowing Club and Globe Rowing Club.

The Royal Naval College, Greenwich is Sir Christopher Wren's domed masterpiece at the centre of the heritage site. The site is administered by the Greenwich Foundation and several of the buildings are let to the University of Greenwich and one, the King Charles block, to Trinity College of Music. Within the complex is the former college dining room, the Painted Hall, Greenwich, this was painted by James Thornhill, and the St Paul's Chapel, Greenwich, with an interior designed by 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.[http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/issues/issue10/beeley.pdf ''Just another source of neutrons?'' R.J.S. Lockwood and Prof. P.A. Beeley (Nuclear Dept., HMS Sultan, Gosport, 2001)] accessed 29 December 2007


To the east of the Naval College is the Trinity Hospital almshouse, founded in 1613, the oldest surviving building in the town centre.[http://www.greenwich.gov.uk/Greenwich/LeisureCulture/Architecture/TrinityHospital.htm ''Trinity Hospital'' (LB Greenwich)] accessed 10 December 2007 This is next to the massive brick walls and the landing stage of Greenwich Power Station. Built between 1902 and 1910 as a coal-fired station to supply power to London County Council Tramways, and later the London underground, it is now oil- and gas-powered and serves as a backup station for London Underground.[http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.65/chapterId/1563/Powering-the-City.html ''Greenwich Power Station'' (Powering the City)] accessed 10 December 2007 East Greenwich also has a small park, East Greenwich Pleasaunce, which was formerly the burial ground of Greenwich Hospital.

The O2 (London) (formerly the Millennium Dome) was built on part of the site of East Greenwich Gas Works, a disused British Gas plc site on the Greenwich Peninsula.[http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.65/chapterId/1546/Powering-the-City.html ''East Greenwich Gasworks'' (Powering the City)] accessed 10 December 2007. The Greenwich Peninsula gas works, being themselves notable, as being the subject of an Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attack in the 1970s, in which one gasometer – and its contents – were spectacularly destroyed. It is next to North Greenwich tube station, about east from the Greenwich town centre, North West of Charlton, Greenwich. The Greenwich Millennium Village is a new Urban renewal development to the south of the Dome. Enderby's Wharf is a site associated with submarine communications cable manufacture for over 150 years.

Greenwich Park

Behind the former Naval College is the National Maritime Museum housed in buildings forming another symmetrical group and grand arcade around the Queen's House, designed by Inigo Jones. Continuing to the south, Greenwich Park is a Royal Parks of London of , laid out in the 17th century and formed from the hunting grounds of the Royal Palace of Placentia.''Greenwich and Blackheath Past'' Felix Barker (Historical Publications Ltd., 1999) ISBN 0-948667-55-9

[[Image:TulipStair QueensHouse Greenwich.jpg|thumb|Spiral staircase and lantern at the Queen's House in Greenwich]]

The park rises towards Blackheath, London and at the top of this hill is a statue of James Wolfe, commander of the British expedition to capture Quebec,[http://www.greenwich-guide.org.uk/wolfe.htm ''General Wolfe Statue'' (Greenwich Guide)] accessed 10 December 2007 nearby a major group of buildings within the park is the former Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Prime Meridian passes through the building. Greenwich Mean Time was at one time based on the time observations made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, before being superseded by Coordinated Universal Time. While there is no longer a working astronomical observatory at Greenwich, a Time 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.''Greenwich Time and the Longitude'' Derek Howse (London: Philip Wilson, 1997) ISBN 0-85667-468-0

The Ranger's House lies at the Blackheath end of the park and houses the Wernher Collection of art,[http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.12835 ''The Wernher Collection (Ranger's House)''] (English Heritage) accessed 10 December 2007 and many fine houses, including John Vanbrugh lie on Maze Hill, on the western edge of the park.

Town centre
Georgian and Victorian architecture dominates in the town centre which spreads to the west of the park and Royal Naval College. Much of this forms a one-way system around a covered market, Greenwich Market and the arthouse Greenwich Cinema. 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, formerly Crowder's Music Hall – one of two Greenwich theatres, the other being the Greenwich Playhouse.

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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 Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney) to the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital for 1000 years.[http://www.greenwichmarketconsultation.co.uk/default.asp?page=288 History of Greenwich Market] at Greenwich Hospital



The market is part of "the Island site", bounded by College Approach, Greenwich Church Street, King William Walk and Nelson Road, near the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory. The buildings surrounding the market are Grade 2 listed and were established in 1827–1833 under the direction of Joseph Kay. The market roof dates from 1902–08. Later significant development occurred in 1958–60 and during the 1980s.

The landowner, Greenwich Hospital (London), is planning to redevelop and "regenerate" the facility in 2013. Greenwich (, or {{cite encyclopedia | year = 2001 | title = Greenwich Mean Time | encyclopedia = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | accessdate = July 6, 2011 | url = http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Greenwich+Mean+Time

Greenwich Mean Time

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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a term originally referring to solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in Greenwich. It is commonly used in practice to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, especially by bodies connected with the United Kingdom, such as the BBC World Service,[http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/help/2007/12/071204_gmt.shtml What is GMT? at the BBC Radio World Service] the Royal Navy, the Met Office and others, although strictly UTC is an atomic clock time standard which only approximates GMT with a tolerance of 0.9 second. It is also used to refer to Universal Time (UT), which is a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields and is referred to by the phrase Coordinated Universal Time#Time zones.

As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one marine chronometer on GMT in order to calculate their longitude from the Prime Meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees (this convention was internationally adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884). Note that the synchronization of the marine 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 distance (navigation)s 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". Greenwich (, or {{cite encyclopedia | year = 2001 | title = Greenwich Mean Time | encyclopedia = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | accessdate = July 6, 2011 | url = http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Greenwich+Mean+Time

World heritage site

{{Infobox World Heritage Site
| WHS = Maritime Greenwich
| Image =
| State Party = United Kingdom
| Type = Cultural
| Criteria = i, ii, iv, vi
| ID = 795
| Region = List of World Heritage Sites in Europe
| Year = 1997
| Session = 21st
| Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/795
}}
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 era and Victorian era town centre.
In recognition of the suburb's astronomical links, 2830 Greenwich has been named 'Greenwich'.''Dictionary of Minor Planet Names'' Lutz D. Schmadel (Springer 2003) ISBN 3-540-00238-3

Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre
The '''Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre''' provides an introduction to the history and attractions in the Greenwich World Heritage Site. It is located in the Pepys Buildings near to the Cutty Sark within the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, (formerly Greenwich Hospital (London)). 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 Christopher Wren's original designs for Greenwich Hospital (London).
* 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 Old Royal Naval College during the years it occupied Greenwich Hospital (1873–1998).

Greenwich Heritage Centre
Greenwich Heritage Centre is a museum and local history resource run by the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and is based in Artillery Square, in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, south-east London. It was established in October 2003, combining materials from the Greenwich Borough Museum and the local history library (previously at Woodlands House in Westcombe Park). Greenwich (, or {{cite encyclopedia | year = 2001 | title = Greenwich Mean Time | encyclopedia = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | accessdate = July 6, 2011 | url = http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Greenwich+Mean+Time

Education

The University of Greenwich main campus is located in the distinctive buildings of the former Old Royal Naval College. The university has other campuses at Avery Hill in Eltham and at Medway. Near the Greenwich campus, the Trinity College of Music is housed in the buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital (London).

Secondary schools in the area include John Roan School and St Ursula's Convent School. Greenwich (, or {{cite encyclopedia | year = 2001 | title = Greenwich Mean Time | encyclopedia = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | accessdate = July 6, 2011 | url = http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Greenwich+Mean+Time

Transport

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Rail
Greenwich is served by two rail stations, Greenwich station and Maze Hill station with services to London Cannon Street, Barnehurst station, Dartford station and Gillingham (Kent) railway station. Greenwich is also served by the Docklands Light Railway, with services from Greenwich station and Cutty Sark station to Lewisham station, Stratford station and Bank–Monument station.

Buses
Greenwich is served by several Transport for London bus services which links it with areas including Catford, Elephant and Castle, Eltham, Lewisham, Peckham, New Cross, Sidcup, Thamesmead, Waterloo, London and Woolwich.

River
There are a number of river boat services running from Greenwich Pier, managed by London River Services. The main services include the Thames commuter catamaran service run by Thames Clipper from Embankment Pier, via Tower Millennium Pier, Canary Wharf Pier and on to the the O2 (London) and Woolwich Arsenal Pier; the Westminster Millennium Pier-Greenwich cruise service by Thames River Services; and the City Cruises tourist cruise via Westminster, Waterloo Millennium Pier and Tower Millennium Pier piers.

Pedestrian and cycle routes
The Thames Path National Trail runs along the riverside. The Greenwich foot tunnel provides pedestrian access to the southern end of the Isle of Dogs, across the river Thames.

W The National Cycle Network Route 1 includes the foot tunnel, though cycling is not permitted in the tunnel itself. Greenwich (, or {{cite encyclopedia | year = 2001 | title = Greenwich Mean Time | encyclopedia = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | accessdate = July 6, 2011 | url = http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Greenwich+Mean+Time

See also

*Greenwich Cablevision
*Greenwich Peninsula
*List of people from Greenwich Greenwich (, or {{cite encyclopedia | year = 2001 | title = Greenwich Mean Time | encyclopedia = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | accessdate = July 6, 2011 | url = http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Greenwich+Mean+Time

References

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External links

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*[http://allthingsgreenwich.co.uk All Things Greenwich – a guide to local shops, services, restaurants, bars & pubs in Greenwich, South East London.]









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