BIBLIOGRAPHY

Learn and understand more about Greenwich Royal Park and environs.

History

"Echoes of national history resonate through every corner of Greenwich."

Clive Aslet The Story Of Greenwich (1999). ISBN-10: 1857028252. ISBN-13: 978-1857028256. "A gloriously illustrated history of a very English town, a site of royal courting and banishment, of scientific discovery and invention, of departure and exploration and the home of global time." (from Amazon blurb.)

Excerpt: "Greenwich Park, for all its avenues, Observatory and elegant adjacent streets, was still, perhaps, haunted by the pagan deities whom the Romans had found here. ... [Nathaniel Hawthorne’s] general asperity in his comments about English life make his appreciation of the daily scene in Greenwich Park, with its crowds of forthright, open, gutsy Londoners, an even greater accolade than they would be from another writer."

Neil Rhind Blackheath Village and Environs, 1790-1970: Volume 1: The Village and Blackheath Vale (1976). ISBN-10: 0950513601. ISBN-13: 978-0950513607

Neil Rhind The Heath: v.1: A Companion Volume to Blackheath Village and Environs (paperback) (2002). ISBN-10: 0950513660. ISBN-13: 978-0950513669

Becky Wallower, "Roman temple complex in Greenwich Park?" Part 1 London Archaeologist Vol.10 No.2 Autumn 2002

Excerpt: "other evidence for Roman activity in the immediate vicinity of Greenwich Park is limited to some cremation burials on Blackheath, isolated finds of coins, buildings material and pottery, a bronze lamp from the Thames and a bronze bowl from the Park."

Becky Wallower, "Roman temple complex in Greenwich Park?" Part 2 London Archaeologist Vol.10 No.3 Winter 2002

Excerpt: "As David Bird notes, siting the building on the line of Watling Street made it a conspicuous focus for road travellers as well."

Excerpt: "Alternatives to the temple hypothesis are thinly supported ... Although soldiers probably used the site ... finds evidence doesn't support a military establishment. Some sort of ... territorial office ... is perhaps a possibility, but such a function could equally have been combined with a temple".

A D Webster, Greenwich Park: its History and Associations (1902).