Travel to Woolwich Map
Woolwich tourist guide map of landmarks & destinations by Walkfo
Explore190
travel
spots
When travelling to Woolwich, Walkfo’s has created a travel guide & Woolwich overview of Woolwich’s hotels & accommodation, Woolwich’s weather through the seasons & travel destinations / landmarks in Woolwich. Experience a unique Woolwich when you travel with Walkfo as your tour guide to Woolwich map.
Woolwich history
Early history
Woolwich has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age . Remains of a probably Celtic oppidum, established sometime between the 3rd and 1st century BCE, were found at the current Waterfront development site between Beresford Street and Thames .
Military expansion
Woolwich was a relatively small Kentish settlement until the beginning of the 16th century . In 1512 it became home to “The King’s Yard”, founded by Henry VIII to build his flagship Henry Grace à Dieu (“The Great Harry”) Many great ships were built here, such as the Prince Royal, the Sovereign of the Seas, the Royal Charles, the Dolphin and the Beagle .
Gallery
Tower Place and the old Royal Military Academy, 1775, were built in 1775 . Tower Place is the site of the old Military Academy in London’s Tower Place .
Economic development
Woolwich dockyard workers were paid as much as a third more than in other naval towns . The number of artillery men grew from around 200 in 1716 to around 1,500 in 1801 . Soldiers were generally held in contempt, earning about a quarter of dockyard labourers’ wages . At the height of the Napoleonic Wars there were more soldiers than dockyard and ropeyard workers .
Urban development
Around 1500, at the beginning of the military and naval expansion, Woolwich had only a few hundred inhabitants . In 1665, when Samuel Pepys stayed here to escape the Great Plague, the population was estimated at 1,200 or more . Around 1720, the town’s population had risen to 6,500, reaching almost 10,000 in 1801 . During the booming wartime decade that followed, population reached a peak of 17,000 .
Post-war history
Woolwich declined as a town in the late 20th century, starting with the closure of the Royal Ordnance Factory in 1967 and the Siemens factory in 1968 . Other employers like the Woolwich Building Society and Morgan Grampian Publishers were taken over by other companies and moved away from the town . At the same time the town’s demographics changed, with mainly Sikhs settling down in the area, followed by black Africans, many from Nigeria .
Woolwich map & travel guide with history & landmarks to explore
Visit Woolwich Walkfo Stats
With 190 travel places to explore on our Woolwich travel map, Walkfo is a personalised tour guide to tell you about the places in Woolwich as you travel by foot, bike, car or bus. No need for a physical travel guide book or distractions by phone screens, as our geo-cached travel content is automatically triggered on our Woolwich map when you get close to a travel location (or for more detailed Woolwich history from Walkfo).
| Travel Location: Travel Area: | Woolwich [zonearea] | Audio spots: Physical plaques: | 190 15 | Population: | [zonesize] |
|---|
Average seasonal temperatures at zone
Tourist Guide to Woolwich Map
Woolwich map historic spot | Woolwich map tourist destination | Woolwich map plaque | Woolwich map geographic feature |
| Walkfo Woolwich travel map key: visit National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top travel destinations in Woolwich | |||