The largest part of this website is our collection of historical statistics, but these are always for precisely defined areas, usually administrative units, not "places". We know about the following units named after Woolwich. Each has its own "home page" with much more information. Click on a tick to go directly to a particular statistical theme.

Be careful! A unit may cover just the town or village, but it may include a big surrounding area. For example, in England and Wales rural districts — units with RD or RSD suffixes — may even exclude the places they are named after. The "Units covering this place" tab lists units whose boundaries contained Woolwich.

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Woolwich RDean                  
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Woolwich St Thomas EP                  
Woolwich St John EP                  
Woolwich St Michael and All Angels EP                  
Woolwich Holy Trinity EP                  
Borough of Woolwich CP tick         tick      
Woolwich St Mary With Holy Trinity EP                  
Woolwich EP                  
Woolwich Vest/CP/AP tick   tick     tick      
Woolwich AD_Town                  

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Election Results

Election results are available for these constituencies associated with Woolwich.

Constituencies Start Date End Date
Woolwich PBCon 1885 1918
Woolwich West BCon/PBDivCon 1918 1973
Woolwich East BCon/PBDivCon 1918 1973
Greenwich Woolwich West BCon 1974 1982
Greenwich Woolwich East BCon 1974 1982
Woolwich BCon 1983 1996

Additional constituencies that covered Woolwich may be listed on the "Units covering this place" tab.

This website includes information on many different historical units, including census data and other statistics. The boundaries of these units covered Woolwich:

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Election Results

Election results are available for these constituencies which covered Woolwich.

Constituencies Start Date End Date
Greenwich PBCon/BCon18321884
Woolwich PBCon18851917
Woolwich West BCon/PBDivCon19181948
Woolwich East BCon/PBDivCon19491973
Greenwich Woolwich East BCon19741982
Woolwich BCon19831996
Greenwich and Woolwich BCon1997 

Please note that these units are listed here because their boundaries covered the point location we hold for Woolwich. You can search for units that covered the particular location you are interested in by typing a postcode into our home page, or by using our Historic maps section, zooming in, selecting the Information option, and then clicking on your location. Units will also not be listed here if we hold no computerised boundaries for them, such as Registration sub-Districts and Sanitary Districts.