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The University of Greenwich is a public university located in London and Kent, United Kingdom.Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic. [3]The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along with its Avery Hill campus, is located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Avery Hill House was a palatial dwelling built by John Thomas North (b.1842 – d.1896), who had made his fortune in the sodium nitrate trade in Chile. [1] [2]Following North's death the house was acquired by the London County Council in July 1902 and its grounds extended to create Avery Hill Park in 1903.
The street was originally part of the Medieval centre of Greenwich and was known as Friars Road after a pre-Reformation Franciscan friary built to the west of the Palace of Placentia. The street was known during the eighteenth century as King Street, but was partly redeveloped and extended during the 1820s when central Greenwich was rebuilt. [ 1 ]
The former Greenwich Town Hall, now known as "Meridian House" A map showing the wards of Greenwich Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916 Greenwich is covered by the Greenwich West and Peninsula wards of the London Borough of Greenwich, which was formed in 1965 by merging the former Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich with that part of the ...
Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160% Geographic limits: West: 0.03W; East: 0.13E; North: 51.52N; South: 51.42N; Date
Formally these are not part of the Bathway Quarter. Concerted development of the area did not begin until after 1799, when the Powis brothers, Greenwich brewers, took a 99-year lease of the land from the Bowater estate. In 1812 most of the land was acquired by Robert Ogilby, an Irish linen merchant. [1] Bathway Quarter on an 1860s Ordnance ...
The Old Royal Naval College are buildings that serve as the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, [1] a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London, described by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as being of "outstanding universal value" and reckoned to be the "finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British ...
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