ELTHAM PALACE > Reviews

Advantages: Superb setting, wonderful craftsmanship, unique architecture, disabled access
Disadvantages: Rather small car park

...quite randomly we fell upon Eltham Palace in the 2005 English Heritage handbook. It looked like an easy enough run anti-clockwise round the M25 from the M23, then off at junction 3 (M25) and join the dual-carriageway A20 heading in towards central London. Eltham is to be found as you enter the Borough of Greenwich, SE9. Either from the centre of Eltham town or from the A20 which runs through it, the brown English Heritage sign posts will clearly ... Read review

Advantages: Architechture, good value for moneym not too busy
Disadvantages: bit off the beaten track, not open Saturdays

...No one would mention Eltham Palace even though it is where the young Henry VIII spent the vast majority of his childhood.. Eltham Palace is in a far flung corner of suburban south east London thus is a little known gem far far away from the touristtrap of central London. It's a palace with a difference as it is more cosy, intimate and at first sight not very royal at all due to the new 1930s wing. You may recognise the interiors as it has been used ... Read review