Historic house · Greenwich · London

Eltham Palace

Eltham Palace is a historic house museum. The built-up area of Greenwich includes it. It is a scheduled monument.

Photo: Eltham Palace, Tilman2007 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In Greenwich

inside the built-up area

Run by

English Heritage

a national heritage body

How well known

Top 3%

#219 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–24°C

In brief

Historic house in Greenwich

One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

#219 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (18 Wikipedias). About ↓

Inside Greenwich

Eltham Palace is inside Greenwich’s built-up area, with 13 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Cared for by English Heritage

One of the places English Heritage looks after; members usually get in free. About ↓

Scheduled monument

On the official list of protected heritage; Greenwich has 524 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Picking your season

Afternoons in Greenwich reach 18–24°C from May to September.

Jan8° / 3°55 mm

Feb9° / 3°44 mm

Mar12° / 4°38 mm

Apr15° / 6°42 mm

May18° / 9°46 mm

Jun21° / 11°47 mm

Jul24° / 14°44 mm

Aug23° / 14°53 mm

Sep20° / 11°47 mm

Oct16° / 9°65 mm

Nov12° / 5°63 mm

Dec9° / 3°57 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Greenwich, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Greenwich. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Greenwich’s full climate →

About

Eltham Palace

Upkeep is seen to by English Heritage. 18 Wikipedia editions have an article on it. A short trip away is Royal Observatory Greenwich, 4.8 km off, the first of 404 within 15 km.

Greenwich’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Historic house
Run by: English Heritage
Listed: Scheduled monument
Wikipedias: Covered in 18 languages
Town: in Greenwich
Official site: english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/eltham-palace-and-gardens

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

Plan your visit

Practical details

Entrance fees

EntryA fee is charged

Hours and entry: OpenStreetMap contributors. They change through the year: check its site before you go.

The map

The area around Eltham Palace

Find Eltham Palace in orange; each number is a place listed below.

Towns near it

Where to base yourself

With 325,469 people, Bromley is the largest of the 8. Every town below has its own grades, prices and places to visit.

1 · It’s in town

Greenwich

288,117 people · 125 places to visit

2 · 900 m south of it

Bromley

325,469 people · 66 places to visit

3 · 1.5 km west of it

Lewisham

300,764 people · 218 places to visit

4 · 2.2 km east of it

Bexley

246,074 people · 29 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Eltham Palace is	People	Places to visit
Greenwich	It’s in town	288,117	125
Bromley	900 m south of it	325,469	66
Lewisham	1.5 km west of it	300,764	218
Bexley	2.2 km east of it	246,074	29
Southwark	9.4 km northwest of it	307,076	471
Cliffe Woods	31 km east of it	2,689	18
Cliffe	31 km east of it	2,531	2
Rochester	32 km east of it	67,279	34

Make a day of it

Around Eltham Palace

4 museums, a castle and a cathedral are among the 404 within 15 km.

1MuseumMuseumRoyal Observatory Greenwich4.8 km away 2

Big drawCastleTower of London11 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)3

Big drawMuseumBritish Museum15 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)4

Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey13 km away 5

Historic houseBuckingham Palace15 km away 6

AttractionElizabeth Tower13 km away 7

Big drawMuseumNational Maritime Museum5.3 km away · 2.4M visitors a year 8

MuseumCutty Sark5.6 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Questions people have about Eltham Palace

Where is Eltham Palace?

Eltham Palace is in Greenwich, London, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Eltham Palace?

Historic house museum.

Who runs Eltham Palace?

English Heritage, so members usually get in free; check opening times before you go.

When is the best time to visit Eltham Palace?

May to September are the warmest months in Greenwich, with afternoon highs of 18–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Eltham Palace a listed building?

Yes: scheduled monument.

What else is there to see near Eltham Palace?

Within 15 km: Royal Observatory Greenwich (4.8 km), Tower of London (11 km), British Museum (15 km) and Westminster Abbey (13 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (8)

Eltham Palace: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
National Maritime Museum: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cutty Sark: Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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