Woolwich

Woolwich is a market town in south-east London, , within the . The district's location on the led to its status as an important naval, military and industrial area; a role that was maintained throughout the 16th to 20th centuries.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Government House and Major Little Memorial, Woolwich.

Apartment building
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is an apartment building.

Memorial
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Recreation area
is located on the grounds of the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast . It was once part of , then used as a venue for historically important cricket matches in the 18th century, and as the home of Woolwich Cricket Club at that time; later it became the home of the Royal Artillery Cricket Club.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woolwich Dockyard and Shooter’s Hill.

Neighborhood
Photo: Nicholas Pocock, Public domain.
was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich—originally in north-west , now in southeast London—where many ships were built from the early 16th century until the late 19th century.

Suburb
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Shooter's Hill is a district of South East , England, straddling the and the . It lies north of and south of Woolwich.

Suburb
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is an area of southeast London, England, in the . It is east of and west of Woolwich, on the south bank of the , 7.2 miles southeast of .

Woolwich

Latitude
51.48267° or 51° 28′ 58″ north
Longitude
0.06233° or 0° 3′ 44″ east
Population
71,500
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WLW
Open location code
9F32F3M6+3W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 748823935
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2633583
Wiki­data ID
Q1006232
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Woolwich” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Woolwich”
  • Arabic: “ولتش”
  • Arabic: “وولوتش”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vulviç”
  • Bengali: “উলিচ”
  • Bengali: “ওউলিচ”
  • Catalan: “Woolwich”
  • Chinese: “Woolwich”
  • Chinese: “伍利奇”
  • Chinese: “伍尔维奇”
  • Chinese: “烏理治”
  • Chinese: “烏立之”
  • Czech: “Woolwich”
  • Danish: “North Woolwich”
  • Danish: “Woolwich”
  • Dutch: “Woolwich”
  • Esperanto: “Woolwich”
  • French: “Woolwich”
  • Galician: “Woolwich”
  • German: “Woolwich”
  • Greek: “Γούλιτς”
  • Hebrew: “ווליץ‘”
  • Indonesian: “Woolwich”
  • Irish: “Woolwich”
  • Italian: “Woolwich”
  • Japanese: “ウーリッジ”
  • Japanese: “ウリッジ”
  • Japanese: “ウリッチ”
  • Korean: “울리치”
  • Luxembourgish: “Woolwich”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “North Woolwich”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Woolwich”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Woolwich”
  • Norwegian: “Woolwich”
  • Persian: “وول ویچ”
  • Persian: “وول‌ویچ (پشم دوزی)”
  • Persian: “وولویچ”
  • Persian: “وول‌ویچ”
  • Persian: “وولیچ”
  • Polish: “Woolwich”
  • Portuguese: “Woolwich”
  • Romanian: “Woolwich”
  • Russian: “Вулвич”
  • Russian: “Вулидж”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Woolwich”
  • Slovak: “Woolwich”
  • Slovenian: “Woolwich”
  • Spanish: “Woolwich”
  • Swedish: “Woolwich”
  • Swiss German: “Woolwich”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Woolwich”
  • Turkish: “Woolwich”
  • Ukrainian: “Вулвіч”
  • Ukrainian: “Вулідж”
  • Ukrainian: “Вуліч”
  • Urdu: “وولویچ”
  • Vietnamese: “Woolwich”
  • Welsh: “Woolwich”
  • Western Frisian: “Woolwich”

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