Deptford (gbr)

Deptford

Deptford ranks 11,165th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cheam, Chessington, and Crayford. The most famous people from Deptford are Emperor Norton. The most famous people who died in Deptford are Christopher Marlowe. Deptford has been the birth place of many extremists and the death place of many writers. Deptford is located in United Kingdom.

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. Read more on Wikipedia