North Woolwich

North Woolwich is an area in the London Borough of Newham, East London.
Despite lying on the northern, Essex side of the Thames, the area was long administered as part of Woolwich and Kent on the south bank, an arrangement imposed in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of England from 1066.
The area had formally-defined boundaries, by which it comprised two separate tracts of riverside land, however as in many areas of London, informal local definitions of districts are more nuanced.
The placename North Woolwich was taken from the now closed railway station which opened in 1847; before that, the area was referred to by terms such as "Woolwich in Essex", "Kent in Essex" and "detached Woolwich".
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