Folly Pond

Folly Pond is a pond in Greenwich, Greater London, England. Folly Pond is situated nearby to the police station Greenwich Park Police, as well as near the deciduous forest The Dell.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Observatory and Greenwich Park.

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 2,000 feet northwest of Folly Pond.

Greenwich Park

Park

Photo: Sebjarod, Public domain.

Greenwich Park is a former hunting park in Greenwich and one of the largest single green spaces in south-east London. One of the eight Royal Parks of London, and the first to be enclosed, it covers 74 hectares, and is part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site.

National Maritime Museum

Museum

Photo: KTC, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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 3,500 feet northwest of Folly Pond.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blackheath and Greenwich.

Blackheath

Suburb

Photo: Vbloke, Public domain.

Blackheath is an area in Southeast London, straddling the border of the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Lewisham. Historically within the county of Kent, it is located 1-mile northeast of Lewisham, 1.5 miles south of Greenwich and 6.4 miles southeast of Charing Cross, the traditional centre of London.

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.

Morden College

Neighborhood

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Morden College 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", Morden College was built to a design sometimes attributed to Sir Christopher Wren.

Folly Pond

Type: Pond
Category: body of water
Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.47242° or 51° 28′ 21″ north

Longitude

0.00236° or 0° 0′ 9″ east

Open location code

9F32F2C2+XW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 142800886

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=pond

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