Woolwich

Woolwich is a district of south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Originally a city in Kent, it's been part of the London metropolitan place because the 19th century. In 1965, maximum of the previous Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich became part of Greenwich Borough, of which it stays the executive centre. The town is a river crossing factor, with the Woolwich Ferry and the Woolwich foot tunnel crossing to North Woolwich in the London Docklands. Throughout the 17th, 18th, 19th and most of the 20th century, Woolwich changed into an vital naval, military and business town.

After numerous a long time of monetary difficulty and social deprivation, huge-scale city renewal initiatives have grew to become its fortunes round. It is anticipated that the metropolis, recognized inside the London Plan as "opportunity region", will evolve from "fundamental centre" to "metropolitan centre" within Greater London in the next few decades. Woolwich has been inhabited in view that at the least the Iron Age. Remains of a in all likelihood Celtic oppidum, installed someday between the 3rd and 1st century BCE, within the overdue Roman period re-used as a castle, had been observed on the modern Waterfront development website online between Beresford Street and the Thames.