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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Woolwich. You may be able to find further references to Woolwich in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | WOOLWICH | a town and a parish | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Woolwich.
Place | Type of entry | Source | VICTORIA DOCK | a chapelry | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Woolwich within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 5 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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North Woolwich | 0 | 3 |
Victoria Dock | 0 | 2 |
Plumstead | 0 | 2 |
Silvertown | 0 | 2 |
Charlton | 3 | 8 |
Shooters Hill | 0 | 2 |
Westcombe Park | 0 | 2 |
East Wickham | 0 | 2 |
Abbey Wood | 0 | 2 |
Kidbrooke | 0 | 2 |
Barking | 10 | 2 |
East Ham | 0 | 3 |
Upton Park | 0 | 1 |
Blackwall | 0 | 2 |
Welling | 0 | 2 |
Canning Town | 0 | 3 |
Eltham | 15 | 2 |
Plaistow | 0 | 2 |
Blackheath | 0 | 2 |
Greenwich | 33 | 3 |