Travel in style by adding our exclusive Prime Meridian Recycled Leather Passport Holder to your travel accessories. 

Crafted in recycled leather it features our iconic 0º 00’ 00” Prime Meridian of the World design that has been printed on to a charcoal grey background.  The inside of the passport cover is grey and gold. On the reverse is a Royal Musuems Greenwich brand logo.  

This passport cover is exclusive to Royal Museums Greenwich and is part of our .

• Recycled leather
• Dimensions: W10 x H14.5cm
• Washable: wipe clean only 
• Made in Great Britain

The Prime Meridian at Greenwich has served as the reference line for Greenwich Mean Time since the late 19th century.   In 1884 the Prime Meridian was defined by the position of the large 'Transit Circle' telescope in the Observatory’s Meridian Observatory. The transit circle was built by Sir George Biddell Airy, the 7th Astronomer Royal, in 1850. The cross-hairs in the eyepiece of the Transit Circle precisely defined Longitude 0° for the world. As the Earth’s crust is moving very slightly all the time the exact position of the Prime Meridian is now moving very slightly too, but the original reference for the prime meridian of the world remains the Airy Transit Circle in the Royal Observatory, even if the exact location of the line may move to either side of Airy’s meridian.