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The University of Greenwich main campus is located in the distinctive buildings of the former Royal Naval College. There is a further campus of the university at Avery Hill in Eltham, and also, outside the borough, in Medway. Near the main campus at Greenwich, the Trinity College of Music is housed in the buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital.
[edit] Transport
[edit] Underground
North Greenwich tube station is the nearest tube station. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town centre and can be reached directly by 129 or 188 bus. The station is in Zones 2/3 and is on the Jubilee Line. Trains go to Stratford to the east and Stanmore to the west via central London.
[edit] Docklands Light Railway
Nearby Docklands Light Railway (DLR) stations:
DLR trains go to Lewisham to the south with north-bound services going to Bank and Stratford via Canary Wharf. The DLR has direct connections with the Tube.
Nearby railway stations:
Trains from Deptford, Greenwich, Maze Hill and Westcombe Park railway stations run to London Charing Cross and London Cannon Street in central London to the west. To the east the trains go to Dartford with a limited service to Gravesend and Gillingham.
There are many river boat services running from Greenwich Pier, managed by London River Services. The main services include:
Many tour and commuter boats from Central London also pass round the Thames Barrier.
[edit] Pedestrian and cyclists
The Thames Path National Trail runs along the riverside. The Greenwich foot tunnel provides pedestrian access to the southern end of the Isle of Dogs, across the river Thames.
National Cycle Network route 1 runs through the foot tunnel (although cycles must not be ridden in the tunnel itself).
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[edit] References
- , Wells, John C. (2000). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 2nd edition, Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. ISBN 0-582-36467-1.
- , Jones, Daniel (1997). English Pronouncing Dictionary, 15th edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-45903-6.
- , a b c d e 'Greenwich', The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 426-93 accessed: 26 May 2007
- , a b Parishes: Greenwich, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 1 (1797), pp. 372-420
- , "Greenwich-the instant village", Elisabeth Woolley, The Times, October 13, 1967; pg. 11
- , Flamsteed House - designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1675-76, was the home of the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed and the heart of Charles II's new Royal Observatory.
- , The Roman Watling Street: from London to High Cross O. Roucoux, (Dunstable Museum Trust, 1984) ISBN 0-9508406-2-9
- , Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Lutz D. Schmadel (Springer 2003) ISBN 3540002383
- , The Foot Tunnel (Greenwich Guide) accessed 10 Dec 2007
- , Just another source of neutrons? R.J.S. Lockwood and Prof. P.A. Beeley (Nuclear Dept., HMS Sultan, Gosport, 2001) accessed 29 Dec 2007
- , Trinity Hospital (LB Greenwich) accessed 10 Dec 2007
- , Greenwich Power Station (Powering the City) accessed 10 Dec 2007
- , East Greenwich Gasworks (Powering the City) accessed 10 Dec 2007. The Greenwich Peninsula gas works, being themselves notable, as being the subject of an IRA bomb attack in the 1970s, in which one gasometer - and its contents - were spectacularly destroyed.
- , Greenwich and Blackheath Past Felix Barker (Historical Publications Ltd., 1999) ISBN 0 948667 55 9
- , General Wolfe Statue (Greenwich Guide) accessed 10 Dec 2007
- , Greenwich Time and the Longitude Derek Howse (London: Philip Wilson, 1997) ISBN 0-85667-468-0
- , The Wernher Collection (Ranger's House) (English Heritage) accessed 10 Dec 2007
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