The pits are named after Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, who had a house nearby, adjacent to Greenwich Park, now called Vanbrugh Castle.

Next door is Blackheath Halls, a concert venue today owned and managed by Trinity College of Music ( based in nearby Greenwich ).

The National Rail service is operated by Southeastern on the suburban Greenwich Line at Deptford railway station, the oldest passenger only railway station in London, and St Johns, as well as nearby New Cross.

These routes provide a variety of links to locations within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, nearby and neighbouring boroughs including Bexley, Lewisham and Bromley, plus links into Central London and to Bluewater which is across the London boundary in the Dartford borough of Kent.

Henry favoured Greenwich over nearby Eltham Palace, the former principal royal palace.

Aldred was born in Greenwich, London, but grew up in nearby Blackheath.

When Rose died in 1786, Burney took over the school, moving it to nearby Hammersmith and thence to Greenwich in 1793.

The nearby Tower Millennium Pier, located on the other side of Tower Bridge, now provides the main commuter river boat services to Canary Wharf and Greenwich in the east and the West End in the west, and a fast visitor service to the London Eye.

Other routes stop nearby in Greenwich Village.

A house in Crooms Hill, Greenwich marks one of Waugh ’ s residences ; 53 Woodlands Villas ( today Vanbrugh Park ) in the nearby Blackheath Standard area was another.

In many respects it is very similar to the nearby Greenwich foot tunnel, being accessed by lifts and stairs from buildings featuring glass domes.

A Holiday Inn hotel was also built nearby, and the Greenwich Yacht Club was relocated to a new site south-east of the Dome.

The iron fencing was a feature of the line and was popular with passengers as it gave a quieter ride than the brick walling of the nearby London and Greenwich Railway

Additionally, part of the viaduct at North Greenwich for the line to the original terminus between Mudchute DLR station and Island Gardens survived and was used, though this section became disused again when the extension to Lewisham was constructed and those stations replaced with ones nearby but below ground.

• The Greenwich ( one of the Districts of the Greater London South Scout county ) District campsite is also nearby.

There was also a Thomas Steers, lime burner of Greenwich ( probably the owner and / or digger of " Jack Cade's Cavern " and of a nearby sand mine ) who was born about this time and in the right area, but who was probably not the same person.

* Cutty Sark, a clipper in dry dock and a pub nearby in Greenwich.

Apart from the college, Sir John's name lives on in the name of a public house in Campshill Road in nearby Lewisham and local street names in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

It was also one of several US-based Island labels that were named after nearby New York City streets when Island's US headquarters were located at 14 East 4th Street in Manhattan, the same building that held the legendary Greenwich Village branch of Tower Records, and also nearby at 400 Lafayette Street.

Hack was born in White Plains, New York and raised in nearby Greenwich, Connecticut.

The young explorer was mourned widely, and £ 2, 000 was raised after his death of which £ 500 went towards a granite memorial obelisk ( designed by Philip Hardwick and unveiled in 1855 ) in his memory on the Thames riverside in front of Greenwich Hospital ; a nearby Greenwich street, Bellot Street SE10, also carries his name.

In 1792, a group of merchants made the " Buttonwood Agreement " and began meeting under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street, beginning the New York Stock Exchange, while a yellow fever epidemic that summer sent New Yorkers fleeing ( north ) to nearby healthful Greenwich Village.

The ruined monastery is in the care of English Heritage, who also run a museum / visitor centre nearby.

Letoon, an important center in Hellenic times of worship for the goddess Leto and her twin children, Apollo and Artemis, and nearby Xanthos, ancient capital of Lycia, constitute a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The nearby coast also has numerous marine national parks – 16 only in Thailand, and four of them are candidates for inclusion into UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

In 1987 Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson, were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Charlottesville is best known as the home to two U. S. Presidents ( Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe ), and nearby is that of James Madison in Orange, as well as the home of the University of Virginia, which, along with Monticello is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

* Cherbourg was the first site outside the United States to be designated as an American Civil War Heritage Site by the Civil War Preservation Trust, because a sea battle was fought nearby in 1864 by Union and Confederate warships.

It was built by the Mississippian culture, which reached its peak in the region about AD 1100 – 1200 at the nearby major center of Cahokia, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site within the present-day boundaries of Collinsville.

In 2004 The Robert Boyle Science Room was opened nearby in the Lismore Heritage Centre dedicated to his life and works where students have the opportunity of studying science and participating in scientific experiments.

The nearby Fork Stable hosts Outdoor Heritage Days and two weeks of equestrian cross country, dressage and show jumping competitions.

The city of Circleville, and most notably Green's Heritage Museum in nearby Orient, Ohio were featured on an episode of the History Channel's American Pickers.

The Wendish heritage in Giddings is celebrated annually in nearby Serbin Texas, put on by the Texas Wendish Heritage Society it occurs on the fourth Sunday every September.

The site is now in the care of English Heritage and is easily accessible from the nearby church of St John the Baptist, Edlingham.

Beeston Castle nearby is a spectacular clifftop ruin in the care of English Heritage.

A Heritage Trail plaque nearby says ," For untold generations of Indian people the Mississippi River was an important canoe route.

At Culver Junction it joined the 1858 to Uckfield line ( part of which is now restored as the nearby Heritage Lavender Line ), thereby gaining access to Lewes.

Though, as in the late 16th and 17th centuries, the 20th-century Royal Family were more or less supportive, British officialdom was far less so with English Heritage, who controlled the site of the real Globe nearby, refusing to allow the archaeology Wanamaker requested in order to ascertain its precise dimensions.

Visitors to the town can visit the nearby World Heritage Site of New Lanark, close to the Falls of Clyde, the Corehouse estate and the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Corehouse Nature Reserve.

The 14th century Visoki Dečani monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, lies about south, in nearby Dečani.

The park is in area and has been designated a Grade II * Historic Park by English Heritage making it one of three such parks in the city, along with the nearby Princes Park and Anfield Cemetery.

The nearby country house Brodsworth Hall belongs to English Heritage.

The basic legislations enacted are: The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act of 1958 and Rules ( 1959 ); The Elephanta Island ( Protected Monument ) Rules of 1957, which prohibits mining, quarrying, blasting, excavation and other operations nearby the monument ; the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act promulgated in 1972 with its Rules promulgated in 1973 ; a Notification issued in 1985 declaring the entire island and a area from the shore as " a prohibited area "; a series of Maharashtra State Government environmental acts protecting the site ; the 1966 Regional and Town Planning Act ; and the 1995 Heritage Regulations for Greater Bombay.

The borough of Tlalpan has sought World Heritage Site status for the area because of these structures, the area ’ s history and the nearby site of Cuicuilco.

Derbent, being in practice a huge museum and with magnificent mountains and shore nearby, a great potential for development of the tourism industry exists, further increased by UNESCO's classification of the Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress as a World Heritage Site in 2003 ; however, instability in the region has not allowed further development.

For these reasons it is declared, along with its nearby port of La Vela de Coro, a World Heritage Site on December 9 of 1993 by Unesco in meeting held in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias.