Dagenham is centred 11⁄ miles (19 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 river thames in the south Dagenham remained mostly undeveloped until 1921, when the. Dagenham was once a small farming village (image Google) the neighbourhood's rich industrial past was at the centre of the made in dagenham film, which dramatised the female ford factory workers' battle for equal pay in 1968 East londoners might still tell.
Dagenham ('daecca's home') was probably one of the earliest saxon settlements in essex The name is first recorded in a charter of a.d 10) from the 13th century onwards references to the parish, its farms and hamlets, are sufficiently numerous to suggest a flourishing community 11) in 1670 dagenham contained 150 houses Dagenham was named in saxon times (as was barking) as dacca's homestead ('ham') Both barking and dagenham were early saxon settlements in the east saxon area, now known as essex.
Dagenham then became part of the london borough of barking in 1965 and more recently part of london borough of havering too. Dagenham, a parish in romford district, essex On an affluent of the thames, and on the london and southend railway, 2 miles wnw of rainham r Station, and 3½ s by w of romford And has a post office under romford, london, e.
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