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Greenwich (pronounced "Grennitch" or "Grinnitch") is a town, now part of the southeastern suburbs of London in the London postal district SE10, on the south bank of the river Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich.
The Royal Greenwich Observatory is located in 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Mean Time was at one time based on the time observations made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, before being superseded by Coordinated Universal Time.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 Greenwich no longer hosts a working astronomical observatory, a ball still drops daily to mark the exact moment of noon, and there is a good museum of astronomical and navigational tools.
The observatory is situated in Greenwich Park, which used to be the grounds of the Royal Palace of Placentia. At the bottom of the park is the National Maritime Museum which also includes the Queen's House, designed by Inigo Jones. It is free to visit all these buildings. Greenwich also features the world's only museum dedicated to fansA fan has two purposes. Firstly, to move air for human comfort or for ventilation. Secondly, to move air or gas from one location to another for industrial purposes. Fans have broad surfaces that usually revolve. Leaves or flat objects, waved to produce a, the Fan Museum , in a Georgian townhouse at 10-12 Croom's Hill (fee payable).
The Cutty SarkThe Cutty Sark ( Scots for "short shirt") was one of the last clippers to be built, and the only one still surviving. She is preserved in dry dock at Greenwich, England. The ship is named after the fleet-footed witch featured in the poem Tam o' Shanter wr (a clipperA clipper was a very fast multiple-masted sailing ship of the 19th century. Generally narrow for their length, limited in their bulk freight carrying capacities, and small by later 19th century standards, the clippers had a large relative sail area. Clipp shipA ship like a boat, is a vehicle designed for passage or transportation by water. A ship usually has sufficient size to carry its own boats, such as lifeboats, dinghies, or runabouts. A rule of thumb saying (though it doesn't always apply) goes: "a boat c) is moored in a dry dock by the river, as is the " Gypsy Moth IV ", the small sailing boat used by Sir Francis ChichesterSir Francis Chichester (born September 17, 1901, Barnstaple, Devon, England died August 26, 1972, Plymouth, Devon was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his achievement of sailing solo around the world in only nine months and one day. He sailed his ketch for his single-handed, 226-day circumnavigation of the globe during 1966-67.
By the Cutty Sark, there is a pedestrian tunnel, the Greenwich foot tunnelThe Greenwich foot tunnel is a pedestrian tunnel crossing beneath the River Thames in east London, linking the London Borough of Greenwich to the south with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to the north. It was designed by civil engineer Sir Alexander, to the Isle of DogsIsle of Dogs is also a play by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson. The Isle of Dogs is a peninsula into the River Thames. It is to be found in the East End of London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is also considered part of Docklands, an area design. This comes out in Island Gardens , from where the famous view of Greenwich HospitalThe Greenwich Hospital was founded in 1694 as the Royal Naval Hospital for Seamen and occupied its prime riverside site on the south bank of the river Thames in Greenwich, London for over 170 years, closing in 1869. It was subsequently occupied by the Roy painted by Canaletto can be seen.
The Millennium Dome was built on a disused British Gas site here. It is next to North Greenwich tube station, about three miles from Greenwich town centre, north of Charlton.
The University of Greenwich and the Trinity College of Music are now based in the Greenwich Hospital (formerly the Royal Naval College) buildings between Greenwich Park and the river. These buildings were designed by Sir Christopher Wren and include the Painted Hall , painted by James Thornhill and St Paul's Chapel . These are also open to the public for free.
The church dominating the western side of the town centre is St Alfege's Church, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1714, and marks the place where Archbishop of Canterbury Alfege (also spelt ' Alphege') was murdered in 1012.
The town centre features Greenwich Market, a covered market popular with tourists at the weekends.
In 1997 maritime Greenwich was added to the list of World Heritage Sites.
In recognition of the suburb's astronomical links, Asteroid 2830 has been named 'Greenwich'.
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