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Royal Borough of Greenwich

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is a London borough in southeast Greater London, England.

Royal Borough of Greenwich
Royal Borough of Greenwich · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is a London borough in southeast Greater London, England. The London Borough of Greenwich was formed in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. The new borough covered the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich and most of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich to the east. The local council is Greenwich London Borough Council which meets in Woolwich Town Hall.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Royal Borough of Greenwich

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
    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.

    300 m · historic house museum · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Charlton House

    Charlton House is a Jacobean mansion in Charlton, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich in south-east London. Built between 1607 and 1612, it is widely regarded as one of the finest and best-preserved examples of Jacobean domestic architecture in England, and the only complete Jacobean mansion surviving in Greater London following the destruction of Holland House during the Second World War.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed building in Royal Borough of Greenwich, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Severndroog Castle

    Severndroog Castle is a folly designed by architect Richard Jupp, with the first stone laid on 2 April 1784. While commonly referred to as a castle due to its turrets, it was built as a folly, as can be discerned by its small size and because it has never functioned as a castle.

    2 km · Grade II* listed folly in Oxleas Wood, on Shooter's Hill in the Royal Borough of Greenwich · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lee railway station

    Lee station is a suburban station on Burnt Ash Hill in Lee in south-east London, England, between Hither Green and Mottingham on the Dartford loop. It is 7 miles 66 chains down the line from London Charing Cross.

    2.5 km · station on Burnt Ash Hill in Lee in south-east London, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Greenwich Cemetery

    Greenwich Cemetery is a cemetery in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in southeast London. It is situated on the southwestern slopes of Shooter's Hill, on the western side of the A205 South Circular, Well Hall Road, approximately halfway between Woolwich, to the north, and Eltham, to the south.

    2.2 km · cemetery in Greenwich, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sutcliffe Park

    Sutcliffe Park is a 16.7-hectare public park in Eltham in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London. It is located west of Eltham town centre, east of Lee Green, north of Horn Park and south of Kidbrooke.

    1.6 km · public park in Eltham in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Grove Park Cemetery

    Grove Park Cemetery is a cemetery in Chinbrook, Grove Park in the London Borough of Lewisham, that opened in 1935.

    2.9 km · cemetery in Lewisham, London · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St John the Evangelist's Church

    St John's Blackheath is an all age Anglican church in the Vanbrugh Park area of Blackheath, part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in southeast London, England. Built in the 1850s to the design of architect Arthur Ashpitel, it provided "an important visual and spiritual focus" to a rapidly growing high-class residential area.

    3.6 km · church in Blackheath, London · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Woolwich Common

    Woolwich Common is a common in Woolwich in southeast London, England. It is partly used as military land and partly as an urban park.

    3 km · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    South African War Memorial

    The Boer War Memorial in Woolwich is opposite the Royal Artillery Barracks on Grand Depot Road in Woolwich. The memorial marks the deaths of the 18 soldiers of the 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery who died in the Second Boer War.

    3.9 km · war memorial in Woolwich, London · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Royal Borough of Greenwich

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 35 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 37 km · London Stansted (STN), 50 km
Stations
Blackheath railway station, 3.3 km · Elmstead Woods railway station, 3.7 km · Welling railway station, 3.9 km · Falconwood railway station, 2.3 km · Kidbrooke railway station, 2.1 km
  • London, Essex → Royal Borough of Greenwich
    13 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £1.5–2
  • Luton, Luton → Royal Borough of Greenwich
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Royal Borough of Greenwich
    175 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Royal Borough of Greenwich. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextPopularly known as the Garden of England due to its green landscape, the county includes a number of attractions that could be included on day trips outside of the capital.
  • Go nextFrom the Greenwich Peninsula, take the IFS Cloud Cable Car (formerly Emirates Air Line) – the UK's first urban cable car.

From Wikivoyage: London/Greenwich, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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Around it

Next door to Royal Borough of Greenwich

Royal Borough of Greenwich is 14 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Blackheathinner suburban area of South East London, England3.6 km
  • Kidbrookedistrict in south-east London1.8 km
  • Leesuburban district of south east London2.9 km
  • Hither Greendistrict in south-east London, England3.5 km
  • East Wickhamurban village within the London Borough of Bexley, London, England3.8 km
  • Longlandsarea in the London Borough of Bexley, England, UK3.3 km