Old Royal Naval College
The Old Royal Naval College are buildings that serve as the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London on the River Thames.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: architectural landmark in Greenwich, London and UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Also known as: “Greenwich Hospital (RN College)”, “Old Royal Naval College Greenwich”, “ORNC”, and “ORNC Greenwich”
- Historically known as: “Greenwich Palace”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cutty Sark and National Maritime Museum.
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. Cutty Sark is situated 900 feet west of Old Royal Naval College.
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. National Maritime Museum is situated 1,100 feet south of Old Royal Naval College.
Royal Observatory
Museum
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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. Royal Observatory is situated 2,500 feet southeast of Old Royal Naval College.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenwich and Burrells Wharf.
Greenwich
Town
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Greenwich is an affluent area in south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the ceremonial county of Greater London, 5.5 miles east-south-east of Charing Cross.
Burrells Wharf
Neighborhood
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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
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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.
Old Royal Naval College
- Categories: tourist attraction, archaeological site, heritage site, and tourism
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Old Royal Naval College” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكلية البحرية الملكية القديمة”
- Armenian: “Հին թագավորական ռազմածովային քոլեջ”
- Belarusian: “Каралеўскі ваенна-марскі каледж”
- Belarusian: “Стары Каралеўскі ваенна-марскі каледж”
- Catalan: “Old Royal Naval College”
- Chinese: “旧皇家海军学院”
- Chinese: “老皇家海军学院”
- Chinese: “老皇家海軍學院”
- Chinese: “舊皇家海軍學院”
- Chinese: “英國舊皇家海軍學院”
- Dutch: “Old Royal Naval College”
- French: “Hôpital de Greenwich”
- French: “Old Royal Naval College”
- French: “Palais de Greenwich”
- Georgian: “გრინვიჩის ჰოსპიტალი”
- German: “Greenwich-Krankenhaus”
- German: “Greenwich-Palast”
- German: “Old Royal Naval College”
- Greek: “Παλαιό Βασιλικό Ναυτικό Κολέγιο”
- Hebrew: “המכללה הימית המלכותית בגריניץ‘”
- Hebrew: “המכללה הימית המלכותית בגריניץ’”
- Irish: “Old Royal Naval College”
- Italian: “Greenwich Hospital”
- Italian: “Old Royal Naval College”
- Japanese: “グリニッジ旧海軍兵学校”
- Japanese: “グリニッジ王立海軍大学”
- Japanese: “旧海軍兵学校”
- Japanese: “旧王立海軍大学”
- Maltese: “Kulleġġ Navali Rjali Antik”
- Persian: “کالج سلطنتی نیروی دریایی”
- Persian: “کالج نیروی دریایی سلطنتی”
- Portuguese: “Old Royal Naval College”
- Russian: “Королевский военно-морской колледж”
- Russian: “Старый Королевский военно-морской колледж”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stari kraljevski vojno-pomorski koledž”
- Slovenian: “Stari kraljevi pomorski kolidž”
- Spanish: “Hospital de Greenwich”
- Spanish: “Old Royal Naval College”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Greenwich”
- Swiss German: “Old Royal Naval College”
- Tosk Albanian: “Old Royal Naval College”
- Turkish: “Eski Kraliyet Donanma Koleji”
- Vietnamese: “Trường Hải quân Hoàng gia cũ”
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