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