Greenwich
Greenwich is an area in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London, 5.5 miles east-south-east of Charing Cross. Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include National Maritime Museum and Cutty Sark.
National Maritime Museum
Museum
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The National Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.
Cutty Sark
Museum
Photo: Krzysztof Belczyński, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes.
Royal Observatory
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burrells Wharf and Cubitt Town.
Burrells Wharf
Neighborhood
Photo: Alctanay, Public domain.
Burrells Wharf is a riverside residential estate, owned by its leaseholders, in London, England. It is situated on the Isle of Dogs and the north bank of the River Thames.
Cubitt Town
Quarter
Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cubitt Town is a district on the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs in London, England. This part of the former Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was redeveloped as part of the Port of London in the 1840s and 1850s by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London, after whom it is named.
Deptford
Suburb
Photo: SilkTork, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne.
Greenwich
- Type: Town with 285,000 residents
- Description: town in south-east London, England, UK
- Categories: district, area of London, and locality
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.48209° or 51° 28′ 56″ northLongitude
-0.00454° or 0° 0′ 16″ westPopulation
285,000Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GNWOpen location code
9C3XFXJW+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 27365302OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Greenwich” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Greenwich”
- Arabic: “جرنتش”
- Arabic: “جرينتش”
- Arabic: “جرينتيش”
- Arabic: “جرينيتش”
- Arabic: “غرينتش”
- Arabic: “غرينتيش”
- Arabic: “كرينيتش”
- Armenian: “Գրինվիչ”
- Asturian: “Greenwich”
- Azerbaijani: “Qriniç”
- Belarusian: “Грынвіч (Лондан)”
- Belarusian: “Грынвіч”
- Belarusian: “Грынўіч”
- Bengali: “গ্রিনিচ”
- Bosnian: “Greenwich”
- Bulgarian: “Гринуич”
- Catalan: “Greenwich”
- Central Kurdish: “گرێنچ”
- Chinese: “格林威治”
- Chinese: “格林尼治”
- Croatian: “Greenwich”
- Czech: “Greenwich”
- Danish: “Greenwich”
- Dutch: “Greenwich (Londen)”
- Dutch: “Greenwich”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرينيتش”
- Esperanto: “Greenwich”
- Esperanto: “Grenviĉo”
- Estonian: “Greenwich”
- Finnish: “Greenwich”
- French: “Greenwich”
- Galician: “Greenwich”
- Georgian: “გრინვიჩი”
- German: “Greenwich”
- Greek: “Γκρίνουιτς”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રીનવિચ”
- Hebrew: “גריניץ‘”
- Hebrew: “גריניץ’”
- Hebrew: “גרניץ‘”
- Hindi: “ग्रीनविच”
- Hindi: “ग्रीनिच”
- Hindi: “ग्रेनिच बरो”
- Hindi: “ग्रेनिश”
- Hungarian: “Greenwich”
- Icelandic: “Greenwich”
- Ido: “Greenwich, London”
- Ido: “Greenwich”
- Indonesian: “Greenwich”
- Irish: “Buirg Londan Greenwich”
- Italian: “Greenwich”
- Japanese: “グリニッジ”
- Japanese: “グリニッチ”
- Javanese: “Greenwich”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೀನ್ವಿಚ್”
- Korean: “그리니치”
- Korean: “그린니치”
- Korean: “그린위치”
- Ladin: “Greenwich”
- Latin: “Greenwich”
- Latin: “Grenovicum”
- Latvian: “Griniča”
- Latvian: “Grīniča”
- Latvian: “Grīnviča”
- Lithuanian: “Greenwich”
- Lithuanian: “Grinidžas”
- Lithuanian: “Grinvičas”
- Lithuanian: “Grinvičius”
- Luxembourgish: “Greenwich”
- Macedonian: “Гринич”
- Malagasy: “Greenwich”
- Malay: “Greenwich”
- Manx: “Greenwich”
- Mongolian: “Гринвич”
- Newari: “ग्रेनिच”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Greenwich”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Greenwich”
- Norwegian: “Greenwich”
- Ossetian: “Гринвич”
- Persian: “گرینیچ”
- Polish: “Greenwich”
- Portuguese: “Borough de Greenwich”
- Portuguese: “Greenwich Marítima”
- Portuguese: “Greenwich”
- Quechua: “Greenwich”
- Romanian: “Greenwich”
- Russian: “Гринвич”
- Scots: “Greenwich”
- Serbian: “Grinič”
- Serbian: “Гринич”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Greenwich”
- Sicilian: “Greenwich”
- Slovak: “Greenwich”
- Slovenian: “Greenwich”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرینویچ”
- Spanish: “Barrio de Greenwich”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Greenwich”
- Spanish: “Greenwich Maritimo”
- Spanish: “Greenwich Marítimo”
- Spanish: “Greenwich”
- Swedish: “Greenwich”
- Tagalog: “Greenwich”
- Tajik: “Гринвич (ноҳияи таърихӣ)”
- Tajik: “Гринвич”
- Tamil: “கிரீன்விச்”
- Tamil: “கிரேனிச்”
- Tamil: “கிரேனிச்சு”
- Telugu: “గ్రీన్ విచ్ రేఖ”
- Telugu: “గ్రీన్విచ్”
- Thai: “Greenwich”
- Thai: “กรีนิช”
- Thai: “เกรนิช”
- Turkish: “Greenweech”
- Turkish: “Greenwich”
- Ukrainian: “Гринвіч”
- Ukrainian: “Ґринвіч”
- Ukrainian: “Грінвіч”
- Ukrainian: “Ґрінвіч”
- Urdu: “گرینچ”
- Uzbek: “Greenwich”
- Uzbek: “Grinuich”
- Uzbek: “Grinvich”
- Vietnamese: “Greenwich”
- Welsh: “Greenwich”
- Western Frisian: “Greenwich”
- Wu Chinese: “格林尼治”
- Wu Chinese: “绿威志”
- Yue Chinese: “格林威治”
- Yue Chinese: “格林尼治”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Greenwich Town Centre and The View.
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