Morden College

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.

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Places of Interest

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.

Greenwich Park

Park

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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.

Blackheath railway station

Railway station

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Blackheath railway station is Grade II-listed and is in the south-centre of Blackheath, a village in southeast London. In traditional terms the area immediately south-west of the station around Lee Terrace and Lee Park is part of Lee; a status challenged by the station's naming, buildings such as the Blackheath Halls and the development of Blackheath Park to the south east.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kidbrooke and Blackheath.

Kidbrooke

Suburb

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Kidbrooke is an area of south-east London, England, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich 7+1⁄2 miles south-east of Charing Cross and north west of Eltham.

Blackheath

Suburb

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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.