East Greenwich Pleasaunce
- East Greenwich Pleasaunce
East Greenwich Pleasaunce is a public park in East Greenwich, in south-east London. It is situated to the north side of the railway line between Maze Hill and Westcombe Park railway stations and south of the A206 Woolwich Road.
The park, opened in 1857, was originally the graveyard of Greenwich Hospital. Due to construction of a railway tunnel as part of the London and Greenwich Railway, the remains of around 3000 sailors and officers, including those who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar and the Crimean War were removed from the Hospital site in 1875 and reinterred in the Pleasaunce (named after the former Royal Palace of Placentia or Palace of Pleasaunce). [ [http://www.parkexplorer.org.uk/park_intro.asp?ID=grn09 Park Explorer- East Greenwich Pleasaunce] , [http://www.greenwich.gov.uk/Greenwich/YourEnvironment/GreenSpace/ParksGardens/Greenwich/EastGreenwichPleasaunce.htm Greenwich Council - East Greenwich Pleasaunce] ]
Those buried in the Pleasaunce include:
*Lieutenant James Berry (d.1930), Curator of the Royal Naval Museum for 17 years
*James Shepherd (d.1907) for 18 years Queen Victoria's boatswain's mate on the Royal Yacht "HMY Victoria and Albert II"
*Anthony Sampayo, French Ambassador to England
In 1926 the Pleasaunce was sold to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, the Admiralty reserving rights of further burials. Railings around the tombstones were removed and part of the ground was landscaped as a park.
Today, the Pleasaunce has a small children's playground (installed in 2001), a mother-and-toddler drop-in centre (the One O'clock Club) run by London Borough of Greenwich and a small war memorial.
References
External links
[http://fegp.typepad.com/ Friends of East Greenwich Pleasaunce]
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