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The Environs of London
… Woolwich WOOLWICH. Name. THIS place in old charters is called Hulviz, … of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred … which separates it from Eastham. On the south and west, Woolwich is bounded by Eltham and Charlton, and on the east …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ordered a sixty-gun ship, which was soon after launched at Woolwich, to be named the " Worcester." The City is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… is not perhaps to be maintained, but since it can exist at Woolwich on the Thames, it may very well do the same at …