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Shooters Hill Golf Club

Shooters Hill Golf Club

Such a well presented golf course with great views, you would never believe you were in London.

Oxleas Wood Cafe and Severndroog Castle

Oxleas Wood Cafe and Severndroog Castle

Severndroog Castle tea rooms do super food and jolly posh teas in the considerately renovated folly albeit with sometimes random opening hours, check the website! Oxleas Wood Cafe is always open and always makes for a pleasant break with plenty of space for the kids to play and dogs to be run.

Fennies Nurseries

Fennies Nurseries

A leading children's day nursery for little explorers (3mths) to inventors (5yrs). Launch your child's learning journey today!

The Depot

The Depot

Finally we have a pub and it serves great food, any time of the day. The crowd is nice and the activities range from typical pub games to wine tastings, love it!

Susan Clark Interiors

Susan Clark Interiors

A lovely independent interiors shop, selling fab pieces of furniture, fabrics, small gifts and unique cards.

ExCel Centre

ExCel Centre

There are exhibitions held here all the time - most recently ComicCon. It was also the venue for many of the events during the 2012 Olympics.

Run or Dye

Run or Dye

The most fun you can have with a pair of trainers, never mind the mad dashing through colour stations where you're attacked with sachets of dye. There's also a music festival of colour! Run or Dye takes place not only in London, but all around the country and world.

Sunborn Yacht Hotel

Sunborn Yacht Hotel

A little known gem, the Sunborn is a fully functioning hotel held on a yacht next to the ExCel centre. You can go here just for the bar, as well as the half price buffet breakfast at the weekend too!

Gail's

Gail's

Fantastic olive bread and a great place to pick up a sneaky afternoon snack!

Zerodegrees

Zerodegrees

The food and wide range of beers brewed in house make this place so popular! They do scrumptious, fresh stonebaked pizzas and the views of Blackheath are great. A nice place for a drink and food.

Buenos Aires Café

Buenos Aires Café

The best Argentinian steak restaurant ever, where the walls are covered in iconic photos taken by its owner. Definitely ask for an upstairs table overlooking Blackheath.

Greenwich Park

Greenwich Park

Going for a run is never dull with this on your doorstep...

Emirates Air Line

Emirates Air Line

Breathtaking views over east London.

Royal Observatory Greenwich

Royal Observatory Greenwich

The observatory is a great place for all ages to visit. There are usually a number of exhibitions for all ages giving a history of time and space and the architecture is wonderful. During the evening you can see the green laser across the sky that shows the meridian line.

Luciano's

Luciano's

Such great service from this independent restaurant. The pizzas and the seafood are highly recommended!

Why not explore the nearby areas of Woolwich, Plumstead, Charlton and Welling

"The Woolwich is Britain's first established building society and was formed in a pub in Woolwich in the mid-1800s."

Woolwich is affordable, it has great transport links, fantastic people and the new General Gordon Place is extraordinary.

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Michael Schult

Sit back and take in the sites from south east London's modern penthouses....

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Divyesh Bhanderi

Factory and warehouse conversions in the east end of London make characterful homes.

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What locals say about SE18

  1. We've lived in Shooters Hill for 11 years and it was the best decision since leaving Docklands for a professional family life. Shooters Hill is the Richmond of London South East. With Oxleas Woods & Meadows, Shooters Hill golf and tennis clubs, Eaglesfield Park, The Woodlands Farm Trust & Severndroog Castle, it's easy to forget your only 10 mins from Canary Wharf and the City of London just beyond. There's a wide choice of schools, lovely family friendly local church and two community pubs. Direct transport (486, 89 & 244 buses) is the only reason prices are still reasonable but if you are prepared to get to Woolwich Dockyard or Arsenal you can get trains into London or the DLR - and with Crossrail round the corner (2 stops to Canary Wharf and 2 more to Liverpool Street) that leg of your commute just got a whole lot better. Shooters Hill - The Country, in the City.

  2. I like the strong sense of the past Woolwich has, combined with its vision for a better future. With its new civic facilities, its controversial yet innovative Tesco, its Grade I and II listed buildings and its new build homes, Woolwich is a hidden gem tucked away in a corner of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. And with Crossrail just a few years away, it might not stay hidden for long.

  3. Woolwich is quiet and peaceful.

  4. Are the good transport links to the 02, Greenwich, shops, restuarants, schools, the variety of foods and culture, people, the parks, leisure facilities, activities, bootcamp in Trinity Burrage Road, medical facilities, houses and flats, lots to do. And of course the new Cross Rail

  5. Everything! People, children, facilities for children, sports, leisure centres, activities, park festivals, museums, transport, schools, parks, chain walks, shops, Greenwich O2 and greenwich, just down the road, doctors, dentist, opticians, diversity. What more can one want oh and houses, and city airports, greenery.

  6. I have lived in Shooters hill for the last 10 years. It is a very quiet and pleasant area. I like the woods which is near my house and the big Green attached to it, it's a great place to walk my dog and he loves it! In the snowy winter months the children use sledges to slide down the snowy steep Green. I have lived in this area the longest I have ever lived anywhere and hope to live here many more years.

  7. The greenery, the space, good transport links, the people especially, good and outstanding schools, childminders, and places to visit, the 02 Greenwich park and museums, fire power, the thames clipper, city air port royal arsenal, stratford westfield, and the new hotels, and regeneration going on. the area has a lot of history and very nice large old house, flats. wow

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About SE18

SE18 is the postcode district in South East London incorporating the areas of Woolwich, Plumstead and is covered by the Greenwich and Bexley local authorities.

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