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London's oldest enclosed Royal Park, first established in 1433, Greenwichark includes several notable buildings and offers some of the finest viewsf London and the River Thames. Designers who worked here include Andre leotre, the French royal landscape designer who laid out the gardens atersailles, and Inigo Jones who designed the Queen's House. On the northernoundary lies the old Royal Naval College by Christopher Wren, perhaps thereatest baroque building complex in Britain. But the park itself is host toerds of deer, and its noble avenues of trees, its spring daffodils and itsuge expanses of grass have long made it a favourite haunt of the people andnimals of South London looking for fresh air and open spaces. Rising abovehe trees at the centre is the great dome of the Royal Observatory, home tohe Prime Meridian Line, and world famous in the annals of navigation andimekeeping. To the south lie the open level spaces of Blackheath, for 600ears a rallying point for large groups including Wat Tyler's band at theime of the Peasant's Revolt in 1381, but now more notable as the startingQuiney, Anthony is the author of 'Year in the Life of Greenwich Park ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780711226647 and ISBN 0711226644.
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