This year marks 350 years since The Royal Observatory in Greenwich was founded. Take a look at four astronomically great ...

which runs through Greenwich, would be the starting point for timekeeping. The line runs through the Royal Observatory, marking 0° longitude, and divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

Later in 1831, the Greenwich Time Bell was installed on the roof of the house, after the observatory tested chronometers used by the Royal Navy. Later in 2007, the modern Peter Harrison ...

The Meridian Line in Greenwich represents the Prime Meridian ... heading south from the National Maritime Museum and passing the Royal Observatory founded in 1675 for ‘finding the longitude of places’ ...

Jonathan Betts is Curator of Horology, which is the study of time and time-keeping, at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. He talked to us about Greenwich, the subject of Longitude and the ...

Get starry-eyed at this exploration of the universe at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich’s planetarium ... Then wander through the Time and Longitude gallery and ponder how anyone got anywhere ...