WOOLWICH, England, a munici pal and parliamentary borough of London, in Kent, eight miles below London Bridge. Area, 8,277 acres. It has many ancient, together with a number of handsome modern houses, an old church (restored 1894), other of worship, a town hall and several charitable en dowments. It owes its importance to the royal arsenal, which occupies an area of above 350 acres, and is one of the most complete and magnificent establishments of the kind in the world, with extensive forges, foundries and workshops of various kinds in which the new est types of machinery are employed for the manufacture of immense quantities of warble stores which are kept in suitable magazines and storehouses. Woolwich Dockyard, for cen turies the most important in the kingdom. having become unsuitable for modern require ments, was made over to the War Office is 1872. In the Rotunda there is a fine historical
collection of arms and other interesting ob jects. A large garrison is stationed at Wool wich, which is the headquarters of the royal artillery; and there are various barracks, a military and a naval hospital, etc. On the edge of Woolwich Common, a fine large open area, are the handsome buildings of the Royal Military Academy (see Mn.rrattv Scnoota): and the Royal Ordnance College is also at Woolwich At North Woolwich on the op polite side of the river, to which runs a free 'team ferry, many houses and extensive fac tories. especially of telegraph cables, have re cently sprung up. The borough returns one member to Parliament. Pop. 121,376, Couseilt Larlcing, 'The Domesday Book of Kent' 0469); N'incent. 'Records of Wooliench' (1890).