Becontree /ˈbɛkəntriː/ or /ˈbiːkəntriː/ is an area of approximately 4 square miles (10 km2) in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is located...
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Becontree was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Essex, England. Its area has been entirely absorbed by the growth of London; with...
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Becontree is a London Underground station located to the south of Becontree in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, east London. It is on the District...
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Becontree is a housing estate of around 100,000 people in East London Becontree can also refer to: Becontree tube station, London Becontree Hundred, an...
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Becontree Heath (also spelt Beacontree Heath) is an open space in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. The name has also been applied to the local...
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kilometres) east of Charing Cross. It was historically a rural parish in the Becontree Hundred of Essex, stretching from Hainault Forest in the north to the...
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The Becontree Estate Railway was a temporary railway system built in the area between Chadwell Heath and the River Thames to facilitate the construction...
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January 1980. In 1994, the borough was expanded to cover the part of the Becontree estate that until then had been within the Borough of Redbridge and other...
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often built in the form of large estates by local government councils. Becontree in The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is generally considered to...
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Historically a small rural settlement in the ancient parish of Barking in the Becontree hundred of the historic county of Essex, its strategic position on the...
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