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Greenwich UNESCO world heritage sites

Park on Great Cross Avenue
Greenwich Park is a former hunting park in Greenwich and one of the largest single green spaces in south-east London. One of the Royal Parks of London, and the first to be enclosed (in 1433), it covers 74 hectares (180 acres), and is part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site.

Royal Observatory on Blackheath Avenue
The observatory buildings at Greenwich became a museum of astronomical and navigational tools, which is part of the Royal Museums Greenwich.

Queen's House on Romney Road
Queen's House is one of the most important buildings in British architectural history, being the first consciously classical building to have been constructed in the country.

National Maritime Museum on King William Walk
The museum includes a gallery of special exhibitions, including a permanent gallery "Voyagers" which introduces the story of Britain and the sea.

Hospital at Mays Court, 54 Crooms Hill
The Greenwich Hospital buildings included an infirmary, constructed in the 1760s to a design also by James Stuart, where pensioners were attended by trained medical staff (Sir John Liddell was for a time senior medical officer). After some adaptation and rebuilding this became the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital in 1870.

Old Royal Naval College on King William Walk
In 1873, four years after the hospital closed, the buildings were converted to a training establishment for the Royal Navy.

St Alfege Church at 3 Greenwich Church Street
The church is dedicated to Alfege (also spelt "Alphege"), Archbishop of Canterbury, and reputedly marks the place where he was martyred on 19 April 1012, having been taken prisoner during the sack of Canterbury by Danish raiders the previous year. The Danes took him to their camp at Greenwich and killed him when the large ransom they demanded was not forthcoming.