Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

Travel writing

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

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
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