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'''North Woolwich''' is an area in the [[London Borough of Newham]] in [[East London]]. It is located on the northern bank of the [[River Thames]], across the river from [[Woolwich]]. It is connected to Woolwich by the [[Woolwich Ferry]] and [[Woolwich foot tunnel]].
Despite lying on the northern, [[Essex]] side of the Thames, the area
The placename North Woolwich was probably taken from [[North Woolwich railway station]] which opened in 1847 and closed in 2006; before that, the area was referred to by terms such as "Woolwich in Essex",<ref name=powell>Powell WR ed. (1973) Becontree hundred: East Ham, in ''A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6'', pp. 1–8. London: Victoria County History. ([http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp1-8 Available online] at [[British History Online]]. Retrieved 2021-06-30.)</ref> "Kent in Essex"<ref>The London Encyclopaedia, edited by Weinreb and Hibbert, 1983</ref> and "detached Woolwich".
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