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Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site
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St Alfege
Greenwich Market
Cutty Sark
Old Royal Naval College
National Maritime Museum
The Queen’s House
Royal Observatory
Protected panoramic view
Ranger’s House
- World Heritage Site boundary
- World Heritage Site buffer zone
Welcome to Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, where internationally significant architecture and landscape, artistic achievement, scientific endeavour and royal association come together to tell the story of Britain at sea, and of world time-keeping, navigation and exploration.
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Quoted in history
It was just 'Greenwich' and everyone in the world knew it.
A Twenties Boyhood Jim Hertford
Greenwich began as a Saxon village. It was called green wic (the word wic meant a port). So from the beginning it was a place where ships and boats were tied up.
A brief history of Greenwich Tim Lambert
Certainly there is nothing lovelier at Versailles.
Punch
The fact that so much is there, in so small a place, makes the whole area extraordinary.
Greenwich Charles Jennings
