Plumstead

Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for TQ445785
Administration
London borough:	Greenwich
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Nation:	England
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Kent
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Media
ITV franchise:	ITV London
BBC region:	BBC London
BBC Local Radio:	BBC London 94.9
Post office and telephone
Post town:	LONDON
Postal district:	SE18
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:	Greenwich and Woolwich
London Assembly:	Greenwich and Lewisham
European Parliament:	London

Plumstead (founded circa 980) is a district in the London Borough of Greenwich, with the eastern end of the site of the former Royal Arsenal at its northern boundary and Shooters Hill to the south. Plumstead expanded rapidly in the 1880s with housing developed for Arsenal workers, two-up two-down terraced housing was common in the area close to the river and Arsenal, larger and smarter properties were developed uphill from the Thames, around Plumstead Common. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... The administrative area of Greater London contains 32 London Boroughs, of which 12 (plus the City of London) make up Inner London and 20 Outer London. ... 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SE18 is the postcode for Woolwich in the London Borough of Greenwich. ... The UK telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Numbering Plan, is regulated by the Office of Communications (Ofcom), which replaced the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) in 2003. ... To see the list in alphabetical order see the categories UK Parliamentary constituencies and UK Parliamentary constituencies (historic). ... Creation 1997 MP Nick Raynsford Party Labour Type House of Commons County Greater London EP constituency London Greenwich and Woolwich is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Greater London is divided into a number of constituencies for London Assembly elections. ... Greater London is divided into a number of constituencies for London Assembly elections. ... The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... London is a constituency of the European Parliament. ... Image File history File links Summary Remade LCC/GLC crest. ... Events Births Emperor Ichijo of Japan Humbert I of Savoy Avicenna Godiva, Countess of Mercia Deaths Categories: 980 ... Arms of Greenwich London Borough Council The London Borough of Greenwich is a London borough in southeast London, formed in 1965 by merging the former metropolitan boroughs of Greenwich and most of Woolwich (with the exception of North Woolwich, north of the river, which became part of the London Borough... The Royal Arsenal, originally known as the Woolwich Arsenal, carried out armaments manufacture, ammunition proofing and explosives research. ... Shooters Hill is a place in the London Borough of Greenwich in south-east London. ...

Arsenal Football Club (then known as Royal Arsenal or Woolwich Arsenal) played in Plumstead between 1886 and 1913, at various grounds in the Plumstead area, but mainly at the Manor Ground, on the north side of Plumstead High Street. Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in north London. ... The Manor Ground in Plumstead, south east London was a football stadium that was the home of Woolwich Arsenal (later renamed Arsenal) between 1888 & 1890, and 1893 & 1913. ...

Celebrity gangster Dave Courtney lives in Camelot Castle, an elaborately styled victorian semi in Chestnut Rise, Plumstead.

If Crossrail is ever built in a way that serves the Isle of Dogs and the ExCeL exhibition centre then the railway's tracks are likely to emerge from a tunnel beneath the River Thames at Plumstead sidings. This would permit a choice of an eastern terminus at Abbey Wood, Dartford or Gravesend; the further east these trains ran, the greater would be the impact upon the existing level of services emanating from Cannon Street to or from Slade Green. Crossrail is a project to build a new east-west railway connection under central London, with one connection to the west and two to the east. ... The Thames (pronounced //) is a river flowing through southern England and connecting London with the sea. ...

Nearest places:

• Woolwich
• Welling
• Thamesmead
• Kidbrooke
• Eltham

Nearest railway station: See also Woolwich, Ontario, Canada and Woolwich, Maine, United States of America Woolwich (pronounced Woolitch) is a town in south-east London, England in the London Borough of Greenwich, on the south side of the River Thames, though the tiny exclave of North Woolwich (which is now part of the... Welling is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Bexley to the east of Shooters Hill. ... Thamesmead is a new town, more realistically a new suburb, in London built on the southern bank of the River Thames, partly in the London Borough of Greenwich and partly in the neighbouring London Borough of Bexley. ... Kidbrooke is a place in the London Borough of Greenwich. ... Eltham (pronounced el·təm) is a place in south-east London in the London Borough of Greenwich. ...

• Plumstead railway station (located in the north-west corner of the town)

Plumstead railway station is a railway station in Plumstead, in South East London, between Woolwich Arsenal and Abbey Wood. ...

Famous People from Plumstead

• Shampoo, female pop duo responsible for early 1990s single "Trouble"
• Lee Ryan, formerly of boyband Blue
• Steve Davis, British snooker player

Shampoo were a female pop duo recording between 1993 and 2000. ... Lee Ryan. ... Blue in Salerno, Italy, 2005 Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Blue (boy band) Blue was a British boy band consisting of four members: Lee Ryan, Duncan James, Antony Costa, and Simon Webbe. ... Steve Davis OBE (born August 22, 1957) is an English professional snooker player who lives in Brentwood, Essex with his wife and two sons. ...

External Links

• Plumstead-Stories is a collection of stories and photos of people who grew up in the area, primarily around WWII and beyond.
• Google Earth satellite view of Plumstead