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So named by Danish settlers, Greenwich ( Anglo-Saxon equivalent Grenewic ) means the green place on the bay ( vig, wich ) or near the mouth of a river.

( Similarly, Schleswig, Sandwich ) The settlement later became known as East Greenwich to distinguish it from West Greenwich or Deptford Strond, the part of Deptford adjacent to the Thames, but the use of East Greenwich to mean the whole of the town of Greenwich died out in the 19th century.

However, Greenwich was divided into the two Poor Law Unions of Greenwich East and Greenwich West from the beginning of civil registration in 1837, the boundary running down what is now Greenwich Church Street and Crooms Hill, although more modern references to " East " and " West " Greenwich probably refer to the areas east and west of the Royal Naval College and National Maritime Museum corresponding with the West Greenwich council ward.

An article in The Times of 13 October 1967 stated: