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Greenwich

Greenwich is a neighborhood and royal borough of London, Greater London, England. Known to the Anglo-Saxons as Gronewic, meaning "green settlement", Greenwich was a fishing town for much of the Middle Ages. During the reign of Aethelred the Unready, the Danish fleet of Sweyn Forkbeard anchored in the River Thames off Greenwich for three years, attacking Kent in 1012 and taking Canterbury. By 1300, King Edward I of England had established a hunting lodge at Greenwich, and Henry V granted the manor of Greenwich to Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter during the Hundred Years' War. The palace at Greenwich later became the principal residence of King Henry VII of England, and Henry VIII was born there, as were his daughters Mary and Elizabeth. During the English Civil War, the palace became a prisoner-of-war camp, and the palace was pulled down by the time of the Restoration, having fallen into disrepair. It was replaced by the Royal Naval Hospital for Sailors, which became the Royal Naval College in 1873. Greenwich became a popular resort in the 17th century, and it came to celebrate its maritime and royal heritage through the establishment of the Royal Naval College and its creation as a royal borough in 2012. By 1967, Greenwich was divided between a working-class east half near the Blackwall Tunnel and an elegent west half. Greenwich became a borough on 1 April 1965, and, in 2018, Greenwich had 286,186 residents, with 62.5% being white, 11.7% Asian, 19.1% black, 4.8% mixed, and 1.9% other.

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