Repository Woods is a 7 acres (2.8 ha) deciduous woodland area to the west of the British Army's Woolwich Garrison in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in southeast London.
[2][3] The ponds were used to teach men "to lay pontoons, to transport artillery upon rafts, and all the different methods that can be adopted for the passage of troops across rivers, &c.".
[6] During the 1820s an earthwork training fortification was added along the length of the eastern boundary, on which were mounted "all the different sorts of cannon used in the defence of fortified towns".
[6] In 1838, The Saturday Magazine described Repository Woods: Features associated with pleasure ground use include two croquet lawns;[4] the respirator training room was originally a garden building before being modified.
The woodlands were Grade II listed in March 2011, described as "the earliest known purpose-built military training landscape nationally if not in Western Europe.