A wildlife meadow and learning centre have opened as part of a multi-million pound project to transform Greenwich Park. The Greenwich Park Learning Centre sits in an outdoor area of the park close to the flower garden. It includes a dipping pond and nature trails. The project is part of the £12 million Greenwich Park […]
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New Greenwich Park café honours writer Ignatius Sancho
Greenwich Park has opened a new café, naming it after a key figure in the abolition of the slave trade who lived close by. The Ignatius Sancho Café is in Vanbrugh Yard – a new public space in the southeast corner of the park, at the top of Maze Hill. The café was formerly a […]
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Your park needs you: Greenwich Park bosses call for more volunteer rangers
The charity that runs Greenwich Park is looking for 35 volunteer rangers who are passionate about the historic open space and can help visitors find out more about it. Volunteer rangers were first introduced to the park two years ago as part of its Greenwich Park Revealed project, which will eventually include recreating giant grassy […]
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Big dig to find Greenwich Park’s lost Giant Steps set to start next month
Archaeologists are set to start work next month on searching for remains of giant grass steps that used to be on the hill in Greenwich Park – before a project begins to create them afresh. Volunteers will dig a trench along the hill leading from the Old Royal Observatory – below one of London’s best-loved […]
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Greenwich Park boss Graham Dear steps down after 13 years in job
Greenwich Park’s long-serving manager is stepping down after 13 years running London’s oldest enclosed royal park. Graham Dear is retiring after leading plans for the Greenwich Park Revealed restoration project, which will include grass steps being reinstated on the slope next to the Old Royal Observatory, taking the park back to its 17th-century appearance. The […]
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Greenwich Park’s through-traffic ban to be made permanent
The ban on through traffic in Greenwich Park is to be made permanent, the charity that runs the park announced this morning. Drivers were banned from using the green space as a cut-through in March 2020 as part of restrictions put in place during the pandemic. The restriction has stayed in place since then as […]
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Olaudah Equiano: Blue plaque near Greenwich Park could honour former slave
A blue plaque on a house opposite Greenwich Park could mark the life of a former slave who campaigned to abolish the practice in the 18th century. Olaudah Equiano briefly stayed in the house on Maze Hill, owned by three sisters known as the Misses Guerin, in September 1767 after he had bought his freedom […]
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Greenwich Council asks Royal Parks to reopen Greenwich Park to through traffic
Greenwich Council has asked if Greenwich Park can be re-opened to traffic each morning to deal with persistent congestion in the area following the lifting of lockdown resources. Sarah Merrill, the new cabinet member for transport and sustainability, said that a “cocktail” of circumstances – including the council’s own low-traffic neighbourhood in west Greenwich and […]
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