2-703-540 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'High on a little hill in Greenwich Park - for even little hills are counted high in London - stands the observatory from which most of the world's nations normally calculate their meridians', c1935. View of the Royal Observatory, situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames. It has played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and is best known as the location of the prime meridian. From "Wonderful London, Volume 1", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]