Woolwich

Woolwich, a town in Kent, on the S. bank of the Thames, 9 m. below London; is the chief military arsenal in the country; contains a gun factory, ammunition factory, laboratory, &c., which employ 12,000 men, besides barracks for artillery, engineers, &c., covering an area 4 m. in circumference.

Population (circa 1900) given as 40,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)