Greenwich, an important borough of Kent (officially within the county of London), on the Thames, 5 m. SE. of London Bridge; its active industries embrace engineering, telegraph works, chemical works, &c.; the Royal Observatory, founded by Charles II. in 1675, occupies a commanding site within the Park; it is from this point that degrees of longitude with us are reckoned.
Population (circa 1900) given as 78,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Greenough, Horatio * Greenwich Hospital