Crooms Hill

[2] It runs uphill in a southerly direction for approximately 1 km (0.6 mi) from central Greenwich along the west side of Greenwich Park to Blackheath where it splits into Cade Road and General Wolfe Road, while Chesterfield Walk branches off towards the Ranger's House.

It is a largely residential street; near central Greenwich, it consists primarily of terraced townhouses; further south are larger individual houses.

[3] At the northern end of the road are blue plaques on the former residences of Cecil Day-Lewis and Benjamin Waugh, and the Fan Museum.

[5] Although some Tudor era buildings survive[6] much of the land was developed when Greenwich Park was enclosed in 1619 leaving the road outside the walls.

[7] About 0.7 km (0.4 mi) south of Greenwich town centre is the Catholic Our Ladye Star of the Sea, a Gothic Revival church designed by William Wardell in the 1840s.