The environs of London (1811) by Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons
This place which in old charters is called Hulviz, Woolwiche, Wollewic, &c lies on the banks of the Thames within the hundred of Blackheath and at the distance of nine miles from London. The parish is bounded on the north by the river Thames except in that part where it extends on the opposite side of the river into Essex being there bounded by Barking and Barking creek which separates it from Eastham. On the south and west Woolwich is bounded by Eltham and Charlton and on the east by Plumstead. The parish of Woolwich contains about 650 acres of land of which about 380 are marsh on the Essex coast 50 marsh an the Kentish side of the river about 20 acres of arable 50 waste and the remainder upland pasture. The soil except in the marshes is principally gravel. At the east end of the town is a chalk pit which has a stratum abounding with the same extraneous fossils as that at Charlton.
Woolwich had long a weekly market on Friday under an act passed in 1807 there are now two market days Wednesday and Saturday The market place was changed within the last century the gunwharf formerly occupied the spot where the market is now held 3 The market place is about to be again removed under the abovementioned act and a new site has been prepared Sir William Pritchard gave the old market house where the cage now is for the use of the poor.
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