Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Erith within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Erith, town and par. with ry. sta., W. Kent, on river Thames, 4½ miles E. of Woolwich and 14 miles E. of London, 3860 ac. and 753 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 9812; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Erith is a summer resort; it is a steamboat station, and a rendezvous of various yacht clubs. Public pleasure-grounds skirt the river, and on the wooded banks are many fine villas. In vicinity are factories; also brickfields and ironworks. In Erith church Hubert de Burgh met the Barons after the signing of Magna Charta; Henry VIII.'s ship, the "Grace de Dieu, " was built at Erith in 1515.