Visitors to the world-famous Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, south-east London, are to be charged for the first time in 10 years. Entrance to the building's courtyard ...

TIME began in Greenwich, or at least it’s where you’ll find the Meridian Line. Not only does the London borough have an ...

Over two centuries later, in 1884, the Royal Observatory Greenwich's extensive star charts made the site a prime choice for defining the world's line of 0˚ longitude, the original marker of which ...

The Observatory is now the base-line for the world’s time zone system and for the ... leading to the establishment of the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time as world standards. The boundary of ...

2009 marks the 125th anniversary of the official adoption of the Greenwich Meridian line as the prime meridian.The markers were erected by East Grinstead Town Council to celebrate the Millennium.