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Greenwich Peninsula is an electoral ward in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The ward was first used in the 2022 elections . It returns three councillors to Greenwich London Borough Council .
Peninsula was an electoral ward in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The ward was first used in the 2002 elections and last used for the 2018 elections . It returned three councillors to Greenwich London Borough Council .
The secondary school was temporarily accommodated at a site in Blackheath (the former Blackheath Bluecoat school in Old Dover Road) until relocating to a new campus on Hendon Street on the Greenwich Peninsula in 2019. [2] Today the school is based over two sites (Kingsman Street and Peninsula) and is administered by the Greenwich London Borough ...
Greenwich Powder Magazine (as it appeared in 1738) The peninsula was drained by Dutch engineers in the 16th century, allowing it to be used as pasture land. In the 17th century, Blackwall Point (the northern tip of the peninsula, opposite Blackwall) gained notoriety as a location where pirates' corpses were hung in cages as a deterrent to other would-be pirates.
The Royal Borough of Greenwich (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ n ɪ tʃ / ⓘ, / ˈ ɡ r ɪ n ɪ dʒ /, / ˈ ɡ r ɪ n ɪ tʃ / or / ˈ ɡ r ɛ n ɪ dʒ /) [1] [2] is a London borough in southeast Greater London, England. The London Borough of Greenwich was formed in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963.
The former Greenwich constituency was a secure Labour Party seat for much of the twentieth century, though it had been a safe Liberal seat throughout most of the nineteenth century. In 1987 , it was gained by the Social Democratic Party at a by-election and narrowly regained by Labour five years later at the 1992 general election .
The Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park is a park situated along the River Thames in the Greenwich Peninsula in South London. The park reflects the nature of the original marshland on the peninsula. The park provides a haven for many different species of bird, plants and bugs and acts as an important brownfield land to control urban sprawl .
The village is on the southern banks of the River Thames, about one mile upstream (west) from the Thames Barrier and adjacent to the purpose-built Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park, cycle paths and recreational areas. The village currently has the Millennium Primary School, a GP surgery, and a few shops. East of the village, at Peartree Wharf ...