Abbey Wood
Abbey Wood is an area in southeast London, England, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and bordering the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 10.6 miles east of Charing Cross. According to the 2021 census, Abbey Wood has a population of 17,700.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abbey Wood railway station and Abbey Wood Library.
Abbey Wood railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Abbey Wood is a major National Rail and Elizabeth line interchange station in Abbey Wood, south-east London, England. It lies between Plumstead and Belvedere on the North Kent Line, 11 miles 43 chains from London Charing Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thamesmead and West Heath.
Thamesmead
Suburb
Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thamesmead is an area of south-east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 11 miles east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Belvedere. It mainly consists of social housing built from the mid-1960s onwards on former marshland on the south bank of the River Thames.
West Heath
Suburb
West Heath is an area of South East London within the London Borough of Bexley. It lies south of Abbey Wood and north of Welling.
Plumstead
Suburb
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plumstead is an area in southeast London, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, England. It is located east of Woolwich.
Abbey Wood
- Type: Suburb with 13,000 residents
- Description: area of south-east London, England, UK
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4907° or 51° 29′ 27″ northLongitude
0.11128° or 0° 6′ 41″ eastPopulation
13,000Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
9F32F4R6+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 8912240163OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
7302135Wikidata ID
Q147104
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Abbey Wood” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آبي وود”
- Basque: “Abbey Wood”
- Catalan: “Abbey Wood”
- Cebuano: “Abbey Wood”
- Chinese: “伍德修道院”
- Chinese: “修道院森林”
- Chinese: “阿貝伍德”
- Danish: “Abbey Wood”
- Dutch: “Abbey Wood”
- French: “Abbey Wood”
- German: “Abbey Wood”
- Irish: “Abbey Wood”
- Italian: “Abbey Wood”
- Japanese: “アビー・ウッド”
- Japanese: “アビーウッド”
- Malay: “Abbey Wood”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abbey Wood”
- Norwegian: “Abbey Wood”
- Persian: “ابی وود”
- Polish: “Abbey Wood”
- South Azerbaijani: “ابی وود”
- Spanish: “Abbey Wood”
- Swedish: “Abbey Wood”
- Turkish: “Abbey Wood”
- Urdu: “ایبی وڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Abbey Wood”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Eynsham Drive Post Office and Abbey Wood Memorial Garden.
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