The incumbent, the 15th holder of the title, is Martin John Rees, the Baron Rees of Ludlow, a cross-bench peer and former ...

As the clocks go forward this weekend, the FT’s senior graphics artist walks a fine (meridian) line through the birthplace of ...

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, ...

Walking distance down the road from the café is Greenwich Park ... Canary Wharf and the City of London skyline. In the Royal Observatory, you can visit the Prime Meridian Line which divides ...

When longitude was first understood sailors measured their position by degrees east or west of their port of departure. Later many countries established their own prime meridians. It was not until the ...

Contemporary style rooms overlooking the Thames river or Royal Greenwich in London, connected to the ... In fact, the Prime Meridian line that separates the eastern and western hemispheres runs ...

The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set ... leading to the establishment of the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time as world ...

A line marks the 'Prime Meridian of the World' at Longitude 0 degrees at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich on March 26, 2012, in London. Oli Scarff/Getty Images The 1884 International Meridian ...