Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne. From the mid 16th century to the late 19th it was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first of the Royal Dockyards. This was a major shipbuilding dock and attracted Peter the Great to come and study shipbuilding. Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard HMS Resolution, and the mysterious apparent murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.
An anchor at the southern end of Deptford High Street links Deptford to its dockyard history
Surviving riverside building of the former Royal Victoria Victualling Yard
Former Deptford Town Hall, now part of Goldsmiths College
View of Pepys Park, Convoys Wharf, Sayes Court, and over Deptford towards Lewisham
Royal Borough of Greenwich
The Royal Borough of Greenwich is a London borough in southeast Greater London, England. The London Borough of Greenwich was formed in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. The new borough covered the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich and part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich to the east. The local council is Greenwich London Borough Council which meets in Woolwich Town Hall. The council's offices are also based in Woolwich, the main urban centre in the borough.
The Royal Observatory at left and the Queen's House right of centre
The Woolwich Buddy Bear
Woolwich Town Hall, the meeting place of Greenwich London Borough Council
Tourists at the Prime Meridian, Greenwich Observatory