Abbey Wood is a district of South East London within the London Boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley. It gets its name from Lesnes Abbey Wood, which used to belong to the monks of Lesnes Abbey. It is placed south of Thamesmead and is 10.6 miles east of Charing Cross. Abbey Wood includes a population of just under 24,000 and is known to be a quiet region.
The district is well known amid commuters; it has an average age of 34 and its railway station was built in 1849 and nowadays it provides services to Charing Cross, Cannon Street and boroughs in Kent as a loop service. Additionally, there are buses that run to Thamesmead, Lewisham and Peckham.
Abbey Wood is known for its caravan park positioned amongst the Abbey Woods. The woods boasts a park as well as a football pitch, as well as the nearby Bostall Gardens and Bostall Heath offer lots of sports facilities. An area of the woods is a site of special scientific interest since it has fossils going back as far as 23-66 million years ago.