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Worth seeing in and around Lee

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Royal Observatory

   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. It played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and because the Prime Meridian passed through it, it gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time, the precursor to today's Coordinated Universal Time.

   2.5 km · observatory in Greenwich, London, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   National Maritime Museum

   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.

   2.9 km · museum in London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Queen's House

   Queen's House is a former royal residence in the London borough of Greenwich, which presently serves as a public art gallery. It was built between 1616 and 1635 on the grounds of the now demolished Greenwich Palace, a few miles downriver from the City of London.

   2.9 km · historic house museum in London, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   University of Greenwich

   The University of Greenwich is a university within the London and South East University Group in Greenwich, England. It was an independent university from 1992 to 2026, when it merged with the University of Kent to form LASE. Following the merger, Greenwich is formally an academic division within LASE, but continues to operate as a university, including recruiting students, teaching and granting degrees, under the branding of the University of Greenwich, under LASE's shared governance, management and academic board.

   3.3 km · university in Greenwich, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Goldsmiths, University of London

   Goldsmiths, University of London, formerly Goldsmiths' College, University of London, is a constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London.

   3.5 km · public research university in London, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Palace of Placentia

   The Palace of Placentia, also known as Greenwich Palace, was an English royal residence that was initially built by Prince Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443. Over the centuries it took several different forms, until it was turned into a hospital in the 1690s.

   3.1 km · English royal palace at Greenwich · Wikipedia
7. 07
   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. Described by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as being of "outstanding universal value", the site is considered to be the "finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British Isles".

   3.2 km · architectural landmark in Greenwich, London and UNESCO World Heritage Site · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Eltham Palace

   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.

   3.1 km · historic house museum · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Greenwich Hospital

   Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869. Its buildings, initially Greenwich Palace, in Greenwich, London, were later used by the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the University of Greenwich, and are now known as the Old Royal Naval College.

   3.2 km · historic building in London · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St Alfege Church, Greenwich

    St Alfege Church is an Anglican church in the centre of Greenwich, part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London.Of medieval origin, it reputedly marks the site where Alfege, Archbishop of Canterbury, was martyred in 1012. The present building was constructed in 1712–1714 to the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor following the collapse of the medieval church.

    3 km · church in Royal Borough of Greenwich, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lee

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 32 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 37 km · London Stansted (STN), 50 km

Stations

New Cross Gate railway station, 3.8 km · Lewisham DLR station, 1.7 km · New Cross railway station, 3.5 km · Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich, 3.1 km · Island Gardens, 3.8 km

• London, Essex → Lee

  11 km · quickest by road, 48 min · £1–1.5
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• Luton, Luton → Lee

  55 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £8–10
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Lee

  173 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · £20–27
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