DEVILS-HOUSE, a hamlet, in the parish of WOOLWICH,
hundred of BLACKHEATH, lathe of SUTTON at HONE,
county of KENT, though locally in the hundred of
Becontree, county of Essex, a mile (N. by E.) from
Woolwich, to and from which there is a regular ferry
across the Thames. A chapel of ease formerly stood
here, together with several houses, the foundations of
which are still discernible; there is now only an inn,
called the Devil's House, with about five hundred acres
of marsh land attached.