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GREENWICH , a See also:south-eastern See also:metropolitan See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:London, See also:England, bounded N. by the See also:river See also:Thames, E. by See also:Woolwich, S. by See also:Lewisham and W. by See also:Deptford. Pop. (1901) 95,770. See also:Area, 38517 acres. It has a river-frontage of 4z m., the Thames making two deep bends, enclosing the Isle of See also:Dogs on the See also:north and a similar See also:peninsula on the Greenwich See also:side. Greenwich is connected with See also:Poplar on the north See also:shore by the Greenwich See also:tunnel (1902), for See also:foot-passengers, to the Isle of Dogs (See also:Cubitt See also:Town), and by the Blackwall Tunnel (1897) for See also:street See also:traffic, See also:crossing to a point between the See also:East and See also:West See also:India Docks (see POPLAR). The See also:main thoroughfares from W. to E. are Woolwich and Shooter's See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill Roads, the second representing the old high road through See also:Kent, the See also:Roman Watling Street. Greenwich is first noticed in the reign of See also:Ethelred, when it was a station of the Danish See also:fleet (1011-1014).
The most noteworthy buildings are the See also:hospital and the the See also:chief towns throughout the See also:country; See also:British and the See also:majority of See also:foreign geographers reckon See also:longitude from its See also:meridian. A See also:standard See also:clock and See also:measures are seen at the entrance. A new See also:building was completed in 1899, the magnetic See also:pavilion lying some 400 yds. to the east, so placed to avoid the disturbance of See also:instruments which would be occasioned by the See also:iron used in the See also:principal building. South of the See also:park lies the open See also:common of See also:Blackheath, mainly within the borough of Lewisham, and in the east the borough includes the greater See also:part of Woolwich Common.
At Greenwich an See also:annual banquet of See also:cabinet ministers, known as the See also:whitebait See also:dinner, formerly took See also:place. This ceremony arose out of a dinner held annually at Dagenham, on the See also:Essex shore of the Thames, by the commissioners for See also:engineering See also:works carried out there in 170.5-1720—a remarkable achievement for this See also:period—to See also:save the lowlands from flooding. To one of these dinners See also:Pitt was invited, and was subsequently accompanied by some of his colleagues. See also:Early in the 19th See also:century the See also:venue of the dinner, which had now become a ministerial See also:function, was transferred to Greenwich, and though at first not always held here, was later celebrated regularly at the " See also:Ship," an hotel of See also:ancient See also:foundation, closed in 1908. The banquet continued till 1868, was revived in 1874-188o, and was held for the last See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in 1894.
The See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of Greenwich, in Church Street, is dedicated to St See also:Alphege, See also:archbishop, who was martyred here by the Danes in 1012. In the church See also:Wolfe, who died at See also:Quebec (1759), and See also:Tallis, the musician, are buried. A See also:modern stained-See also:glass window commemorates Wolfe.
The See also:parliamentary borough of Greenwich returns one member. Two burgesses were returned in 1577, but it was not again represented till the same See also:privilege was conferred on it in 1832. The borough See also:council consists of a See also:mayor, five aldermen and See also:thirty councillors.
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