Woolwich
Woolwich is a market town in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The district's location on the River Thames led to its status as an important naval, military and industrial area; a role that was maintained throughout the 16th to 20th centuries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Government House and Major Little Memorial, Woolwich.
Government House
Apartment building
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Government House is an apartment building.
Barrack Field
Recreation area
Barrack Field is located on the grounds of the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. It was once part of Woolwich Common, then used as a venue for cricket matches in the 18th century and as the home of Woolwich Cricket Club at that time.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woolwich Dockyard and Shooter’s Hill.
Woolwich Dockyard
Neighborhood
Photo: Nicholas Pocock, Public domain.
Woolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich—originally in north-west Kent, now in southeast London—where many ships were built from the early 16th century until the late 19th century.
Shooter’s Hill
Suburb
Photo: Kleon3, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shooter's Hill is a district of South East London, England, straddling the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It lies north of Eltham and south of Woolwich.
Charlton
Suburb
Photo: Steve Cadman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Charlton is an area of southeast London, England, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is east of Greenwich and west of Woolwich, on the south bank of the River Thames, 7.2 miles southeast of Charing Cross.
Woolwich
- Type: Town with 71,500 residents
- Description: district in southeast London, England
- Categories: area of London, market town, and locality
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.48267° or 51° 28′ 58″ northLongitude
0.06233° or 0° 3′ 44″ eastPopulation
71,500Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WLWOpen location code
9F32F3M6+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 748823935OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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: “וולוויץ‘”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as The Academy and Callis Yard.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery Boer War Memorial and Crimean War Memorial.
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