Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ABBEY-WOOD

ABBEY-WOOD, a hamlet in Erith parish, Kent; on the North Kent railway, 2¾ miles E of Woolwich. It is named from the Abbey of Lessness, about a mile distant; it has become a sort of metropolitan suburb; and it has a r. station with telegraph, and a postal pillar box.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Erith AP/CP       Kent AncC
Place: Abbey Wood

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