Place name As with Leda Road, Swan Road is named after the protagonists in the Greek myth Leda and the…
Place Name Actaeon was a famous hero in ancient mythology. The myth of Diana and Actaeon, found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses…
Place Name Originally Woolwich Road. The Royal Military Academy was near here between 1741 and 1939. It was, as the…
Place Name The Royal Military Academy was near here between 1741 and 1939. It was, as the name gives away, a…
Place Name Named after the Powis brothers, William (died 1806), Thomas and Richard, 18thCentury brewers from Greenwich. Arriving in Woolwich in…