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…of pupils travel long distances to this increas­ingly popular school. Postal district: N15 Station: London Over­ground (Gospel Oak to Barking line) (zone 3) Website: South Tottenham…

…white British, though the western part of Barking & Dagenham has been changing. Like several of London’s outermost boroughs, Havering and Bexley have more in…

…part of Barking Abbey’s extensive land­hold­ings in the Ilford area until the disso­lu­tion of the monas­teries, when Henry VIII granted it to Sir Richard Gresham.…

…languages include Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu and Gujarati. Postal districts: E7 and E12 Station: London Over­ground (Gospel Oak to Barking line, zones 3 and 4) * The picture…

…borough. In December 2018 the City of London Corpo­ra­tion announced its acqui­si­tion of the 42-acre Barking Reach power station site as a potential new home…

Barkingside, Redbridge Despite accu­sa­tions of ‘chav’ char­ac­ter­is­tics, Barkingside is an unob­jec­tion­able interwar suburb situated at the south-western corner of Fairlop Plain Barkingside’s name was first…

…the relevant estab­lish­ment. The opening of a railway station (initially called Barking Road) in 1847 stim­u­lated early jerry-built devel­op­ment, mostly without proper drainage, leaving the…

Beckton, Newham The former home of the world’s biggest gasworks and subse­quently a docklands devel­op­ment area, situated west of Barking Creek and north of the…

…the outer edge of London – thus incor­po­rating Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Ealing and Merton. None of these defi­n­i­tions is ideal. The most authentic way…

Gallions Reach, Newham and Greenwich A stretch of the Thames between Woolwich and Barking Creek that’s given its name to a DLR station in south-east…