Abbey Wood

Abbey Wood is an area of South East London, England, inside the London Boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley. It is found 10.6 miles east of Charing Cross. It exists in the Historic County of Kent. From September 2019, Abbey Wood will be associated by Crossrail's Elizabeth Line. The Abbey of St Mary and St Thomas the Martyr at Lesnes was established in 1178 by Richard de Luci, Chief Justiciar of England. The Abbott of Lesnes Abbey was an imperative neighborhood landowner, and took a main part in depleting the marshland.

In any case, this and the expense of keeping up waterway dikes was one reason given for the Abbey's endless money related challenges. It never turned into a vast network, and was shut via Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, under a permit to smother religious communities of under seven detainees. It was one of the principal religious communities to be shut after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1524, and the ascetic structures were altogether pulled down, aside from the Abbott's Lodging. Henry Cooke procured the site in 1541 and it in the end go to Sir John Hippersley who rescued building materials, before pitching the property to Thomas Hawes of London in 1632. It was then granted to Christ's Hospital in 1633.