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The IKEA store here opened in 2019 as the retailer's fourth main store in London, [48] following stores in Wembley (1988), Croydon (1992) and Tottenham (2005); the Greenwich store is the first in Inner London. [49] Greenwich Shopping Park is about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) further east, in Charlton.
The London Borough of Greenwich was created in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963. It covered the combined area of the two metropolitan boroughs of Greenwich and Woolwich, with the exception that North Woolwich , on the north side of the River Thames , went instead to the London Borough of Newham .
Greenwich London Borough Council, also known as Greenwich Council or the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, [2] is the local authority for the Royal Borough of Greenwich in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 1971.
London is the capital of and largest city in England and the United Kingdom. It is divided into the City of London and 32 London boroughs , the result of amalgamation of earlier units of administration that can be traced back to ancient parishes .
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; [1] known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north.
At the foot of the tower was a doorway with a canopy showing the signs of the zodiac to a design by Carter & Co. [1] The architectural historian, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, wrote that Greenwich Town Hall, which shows the influence of Hilversum Town Hall in the Netherlands, was "the only town hall of any London borough to represent the style of our ...