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Blackheath

Blackheath is an area in Southeast London, straddling the border of the and the . Historically within the county of , it is located 1-mile northeast of , 1.5 miles south of Greenwich and 6.4 miles southeast of , the traditional centre of London.
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  • Type: Suburb with 25,100 residents
  • Description: inner suburban area of South East London, England
  • Also known as: “Blackheath, London”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blackheath railway station and Blackheath Farmers‘ Market.

Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is Grade II-listed and is in the south-centre of Blackheath, a village in southeast . In traditional terms the area immediately south-west of the station around Lee Terrace and Lee Park is part of ; a status challenged by the station's naming, buildings such as the and the development of Blackheath Park to the south east.

Marketplace
Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0.
is a marketplace.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , Greenwich is an situated on a hill in in south east London, overlooking the to the north.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Morden College and Lee.

Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a charity which has been providing residential care in Blackheath, south-east London, England for over 300 years. Founded by philanthropist Sir John Morden in 1695 as a home for "poor Merchants", was built to a design sometimes attributed to Sir Christopher Wren.

Town
Photo: QuintusPetillius, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Green, is an area of South East , , straddling the border of the and the .

Neighborhood
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is a residential development located in the area of the , in , England. It is part of a larger regeneration project aimed at transforming the former Ferrier Estate into a new, mixed-use community.

Blackheath

Latitude
51.46626° or 51° 27′ 59″ north
Longitude
0.00868° or 0° 0′ 31″ east
Population
25,100
Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)
Open location code
9F32F285+GF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 431507207
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6947041
Wiki­data ID
Q880861
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Blackheath” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلاكهيث، لندن”
  • Arabic: “بلاكهيث”
  • Armenian: “Բլեքհիթ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blekhit”
  • Basque: “Blackheath”
  • Belarusian: “Блэкхіт”
  • Bulgarian: “Блекхийт”
  • Catalan: “Blackheath”
  • Cebuano: “Blackheath”
  • Chinese: “布勒希斯”
  • Chinese: “布萊克希思”
  • Chinese: “布萊克希斯”
  • Czech: “Blackheath”
  • Dutch: “Blackheath”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلاكهيث, لندن”
  • Finnish: “Blackheath”
  • French: “Blackheath”
  • Galician: “Blackheath”
  • German: “Blackheath”
  • Greek: “Μπλάκχιθ”
  • Hebrew: “בלקהית‘”
  • Irish: “Blackheath, Londain”
  • Irish: “Blackheath”
  • Italian: “Blackheath”
  • Japanese: “ブラックヒース (ロンドン)”
  • Japanese: “ブラックヒース”
  • Korean: “블랙히스”
  • Luxembourgish: “Blackheath”
  • Macedonian: “Блекхит”
  • Malay: “Blackheath, London”
  • Malay: “Blackheath”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blackheath, London”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blackheath”
  • Norwegian: “Blackheath”
  • Polish: “Blackheath (Londyn)”
  • Polish: “Blackheath”
  • Portuguese: “Blackheath”
  • Russian: “Блэкхит”
  • Slovenian: “Blackheath”
  • Spanish: “Blackheath”
  • Swedish: “Blackheath, London”
  • Swedish: “Blackheath”
  • Turkish: “Blackheath”
  • Ukrainian: “Блекгіт”
  • Urdu: “بلیکہیتھ، لندن”
  • Welsh: “Blackheath”
  • Yue Chinese: “布勒希斯”

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Localities in the Area

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