Greenwich World Heritage Site – The Park & Museums

Greenwich World Heritage site encompasses the park and museums, making it a very special place to tick off your active London bucket list. It is the most historic of all the parks, dating back to Roman times (excavations in 2000 found archaeology relating to a Romano-Celtic Temple) before being enclosed in 1427, and has been home to Red and Fallow Deer since the 15th Century. It offers views over the River Thames with St Paul’s Cathedral clearly visible. If you wish to cultivate you garden to include herbs, roses and herbaceous borders, then Greenwich Park is a master class of varying zones waiting for you to explore. It includes London’s longest herbaceous border at 200m, and a rose garden which is relatively young having been planted in the 1960s. It remains very popular, not just because of the sweet smelling petals, but also because of the Park Rangers Edwardian Villa in the backdrop, creating a picture perfect English garden setting. The herb beds will give you some great ideas to copy when you get home to create your own kitchen garden. Greenwich is of course the site and home to ‘Greenwich Mean Time,’ where you can stand astride the northern and southern hemispheres at the same moment. This incredibly important cluster of museums includes the Royal Observatory with its giant 28” refracting telescope, and a 4.5 billion year old asteroid; London’s only Planetarium, to help understand the galaxy; the Cutty Sark sailing ship which is the last surviving tea clipper; the National Maritime Museum; and the Queen’s House Art Gallery.