Greenwich
Greenwich is a famous maritime district of south east London - 5.5 miles from central London. An area of great historical importance, the town centre contains Maritime Greenwich - one of London's four UNESCO World Heritage sites - known for its naval history, connections with the Royal Family and as the location from which the Prime Meridian is derived.Photo: Sebjarod, Public domain.
- Type: Locality with 280,000 residents
- Description: royal borough in the London Region in England
- Also known as: “Greenwich (unparished area)”, “London Borough of Greenwich”, and “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eltham Palace and Eltham railway station.
Eltham Palace
Photo: Tom Parnell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eltham Palace is a large house at Eltham in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The house consists of the medieval great hall of a former royal residence, to which an Art Deco extension was added in the 1930s.
Eltham railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eltham railway station is in the Well Hall area of Eltham, South East London, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is 10 miles 68 chains measured from London Victoria.
Royal Blackheath Golf Club
Golf course
Royal Blackheath Golf Club is a golf club located in Eltham, England within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It was founded in 1608, making it the oldest golf club in England and the world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eltham and Middle Park.
Eltham
Town
Photo: Kleon3, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eltham is a district of southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is 8.7 miles east-southeast of Charing Cross, and is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Middle Park
Suburb
Middle Park is an estate located in the Eltham district of the Royal Borough of Greenwich built between 1931 and 1936.
Mottingham
Suburb
Photo: Stacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mottingham is a district of south-east London, England, which straddles the border of the London Borough of Bromley, the London Borough of Lewisham and the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Greenwich
- Categories: London borough and unparished area
- Location: Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Greenwich” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حي غرينتش الملكي”
- Arabic: “غرينيتش”
- Armenian: “Գրինվիչ”
- Azerbaijani: “Qrinviç borosu”
- Azerbaijani: “Qrinviç Kral borosu”
- Basque: “Greenwich”
- Belarusian: “Грынвіч”
- Belarusian: “Грынўіч”
- Catalan: “Greenwich”
- Cebuano: “Greenwich (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Greenwich”
- Chechen: “Гринвич”
- Chinese: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- Chinese: “格林威治”
- Chinese: “格林威治倫敦自治市”
- Chinese: “格林威治區”
- Chinese: “格林威治皇家自治市”
- Chinese: “格林尼治區”
- Czech: “Greenwich”
- Danish: “Greenwich”
- Dutch: “Greenwich”
- Dutch: “London Borough of Greenwich”
- Dutch: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Grenviĉo”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Grenviĉo”
- Esperanto: “reĝa urbodistrikto Grenviĉo”
- Estonian: “Greenwichi linnaosa”
- Finnish: “Greenwich”
- Finnish: “Greenwichin kaupunkipiiri”
- Finnish: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- French: “Borough londonien de Greenwich”
- French: “borough royal de Greenwich”
- French: “Borough royal de Greenwich”
- French: “Greenwich”
- French: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- Galician: “concello de Greenwich”
- German: “GB-GRE”
- German: “Greenwich”
- German: “London Borough of Greenwich”
- German: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- Hebrew: “גריניץ‘”
- Hebrew: “גריניץ’”
- Hebrew: “הרובע המלכותי של גריניץ‘”
- Hebrew: “הרובע המלכותי של גריניץ’”
- Hebrew: “רובע גריניץ‘”
- Hungarian: “Greenwich kerület”
- Hungarian: “London Borough of Greenwich”
- Icelandic: “Greenwich”
- Indonesian: “Greenwich”
- Irish: “Buirg Ríoga Greenwich”
- Italian: “borgo reale di Greenwich”
- Italian: “Greenwich”
- Italian: “Municipio reale di Greenwich”
- Japanese: “グリニッジ・ロンドン特別区”
- Japanese: “グリニッジ”
- Japanese: “グリニッジ区”
- Japanese: “グリニッジ王室特別区”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೀನಿಜ್”
- Korean: “그리니치 왕립구”
- Latin: “Grenovicum”
- Latvian: “Griniča”
- Macedonian: “Гринич”
- Marathi: “ग्रीनविच”
- Marathi: “ग्रीनवीच”
- Marathi: “ग्रीनिच”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- Nepali: “ग्रिनविच”
- Nepali: “ग्रेनिच”
- Northern Frisian: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Greenwich”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “London Borough of Greenwich”
- Norwegian: “Greenwich”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Grenewic se Lundenburgscipe”
- Ossetian: “Гринвич”
- Persian: “منطقه سلطنتی گرینویچ”
- Persian: “منطقه سلطنتی گرینیچ”
- Polish: “Greenwich”
- Polish: “London Borough of Greenwich”
- Polish: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- Portuguese: “Borough de Greenwich”
- Portuguese: “Greenwich”
- Portuguese: “London Borough of Greenwich”
- Quechua: “Greenwich (Lunrun borough)”
- Quechua: “Greenwich”
- Romanian: “Burgul londonez Greenwich”
- Romanian: “Greenwich”
- Russian: “Гринвич”
- Sardinian: “Greenwich”
- Scots: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- Serbian: “Лондонска општина Гринич”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Greenwich”
- Slovak: “Greenwich”
- Slovenian: “Greenwich”
- Slovenian: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- South Azerbaijani: “سلطنتی قرینویچ منطقهسی”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Greenwich”
- Swedish: “Greenwich”
- Swedish: “London Borough of Greenwich”
- Swedish: “Royal Borough of Greenwich”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи салтанатии Гринвич”
- Thai: “รอยัลโบโรออฟเกรนิช”
- Turkish: “Greenwich”
- Ukrainian: “Гринвіч”
- Urdu: “شاہی بورو گرینچ”
- Urdu: “گرینچ کا شاہی بورو”
- Uzbek: “Greenwich qirollik tumani”
- Uzbek: “Grinvich”
- Vietnamese: “Khu Greenwich của Luân Đôn”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Frenhinol Greenwich”
- Welsh: “Greenwich”
- Western Frisian: “Greenwich”
- Western Panjabi: “گرینوچ”
- Yiddish: “לאנדאנער בארא פון גריניטש”
- Yiddish: “קעניגלעכע בארא פון גריניטש”
- Yue Chinese: “格林尼治區”
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