Greenwich Park

Greenwich Park is one of London's oldest enclosed royal parks, rising steeply from the Thames to a hilltop crowned by the Royal Observatory. Landscaped in the seventeenth century, its avenues of chestnut trees frame long views across the river toward the towers of Canary Wharf and the City. The park contains a herd of deer in a fenced wilderness, a rose garden and the meridian line that marks zero degrees longitude. It forms part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.