Greenwich Market attracts over two million visitors a year who come to Greenwich not just to shop and soak up the sites, sounds and smells of the market but to explore Maritime Greenwich and enjoy the magnificent views, architecture, history and atmosphere that led UNESCO to award it World Heritage Site Status in 1997.
You will find:
- Architecture by Sir Christopher Wren, Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor and Joseph Kay
- The centre of space and time, Greenwich Mean Time and Longitude 0°, which were conceived and are celebrated at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park.
- The birthplace of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Mary I.
- The National Maritime Museum
- The Old Royal Naval College Built originally as a hospital for veteran sailors. . Admiral Lord Nelson lay in state in its Painted Hall prior to his funeral.
- The Cutty Sark, Britain's last surviving tea clipper.