About Charlton

13/05/2009

Charlton is a town and political ward within the London Borough of Greenwich, South East London.

The etymology of the word "Charlton" is coerl and tun, which can be rendered into modern parlance as "homestead of free peasants" (according to Wikipedia).

Charlton has two parks (Maryon Wilson and the eponymous Charlton Park), the home of Charlton Athletic Football Club known as The Valley, and a splendid Jacobean House.

The town and political ward are not interchangeable as the town encompasses all roads with the se7 postcode and the political ward seeps into parts of Blackheath.

Conversely, there are parts of Charlton town which are seceded to Peninsula, Woolwich Riverside, Woolwich Common and Hornfair.

Your Charlton Action Team are active in the political ward of Charlton - This is the land encompassed within the boundaries of the Charlton rail line to the North, Thorntree Road to the East, the A102 to the West, and parts of Canberra Road to the South.

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