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Woolwich Cemetery is in two parts, the Old Cemetery to the west and the New Cemetery to the east. The west part was laid out by Woolwich Burial Board in 1856 on land that was once part of Plumstead Common. The walled and railed cemetery retains one of the original chapels and has a number of fine mature trees. Although some gravestones have been cleared, among the memorials is that to victims of the Princes Alice disaster of 1878. The east site for the New Cemetery was purchased in 1885 and is still in use. It contains graves of those who died in explosions at Royal Arsenal as well as the War Memorial and a number of War Graves.
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Woolwich Common originally covered an extensive area, and from the late C18th was used by the military. In 1802 the Board of Ordnance enclosed part of the common and it remains largely owned by the Ministry of Defence. Building of the Royal Artillery Barracks in the north of the common had begun in 1776 and in 1806 the Regiment moved here. Barrack Field was a setting for the Military Repository, a mortar battery and the observatory, with married quarters bounded to the south by a ha-ha. The Rotunda was moved here from St James's Park in 1819 and became a military museum. The land south of Ha-Ha Road is mostly accessible, open commonland.
