Becontree was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Essex, England.[1] Its area has been entirely absorbed by the growth of London; with its name reused in 1921 for the large Becontree estate of the London County Council.[2] Its former area now corresponds to the London Borough of Newham, the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and parts of the London Borough of Waltham Forest and the London Borough of Redbridge. Its early extent also included parts of what is now the London Borough of Havering.[3]
^John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)
^Mills, A., Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names, (2001)
^The hundred of Becontree: Introduction', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5 (1966). Date accessed: 11 January 2008.
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 its...
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...
east of Charing Cross. It was historically a rural parish in the BecontreeHundred of Essex, stretching from Hainault Forest in the north to the River...
a small rural settlement in the ancient parish of Barking in the Becontreehundred of the historic county of Essex, its strategic position on the River...
Plan. Historically part of the ancient parish of Hornchurch in the Becontreehundred of Essex, it has been a market town since 1247. It formed the administrative...
Becontree Heath functioned as the ancient meeting place for Becontreehundred, which covered much of what is now East London. In 1465, the hundred lost...
with royalty is unrecorded. Havering was recorded as part of the Becontreehundred of Essex in the Domesday Book of 1086. The manor was held directly...
historically part of the ancient parish of Leyton St Mary in the Becontreehundred and part of the ancient county of Essex. The town expanded rapidly...
formed a large ancient parish of around 4,500 acres (18 km2) in the Becontreehundred of Essex. The parish was made up of three wards: Church-street, Stratford-Langthorne...
Underground. Walthamstow was a civil parish, originally part of the BecontreeHundred of Essex. As part of the suburban growth of London, the town expanded...
Historically part of the ancient parish of Woodford St Mary, in the Becontreehundred of Essex, the area was largely rural before developing rapidly in...
a plastics factory. Hornchurch was a large ancient parish in the Becontreehundred of Essex; it was divided into the three chapelries of Havering-atte-Bower...
division; instead it was part of the ancient parish of Ilford in the Becontreehundred of the county of Essex, which formed from 1894, the Ilford Urban District...
northeast of Charing Cross. Historically an ancient parish in the Becontreehundred of Essex, it was granted urban district status in 1894, and formed...
units to bring them up to strength. It was originally part of the hundred of Becontree, and part of the historic county of Essex. Since 1965, East Ham has...
Woolwich was originally in the eastern part of the Manor of Ham, in the Becontreehundred of Essex; a territory that was subsequently divided into the more...
a half-hundred). Four parishes starting with Hackney bordered the Becontreehundred of Essex to the east. Finally two of these land-border parishes and...
Archived 30 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 23 February 2008 Becontreehundred: East Ham, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp....
the northernmost settlement of the large parish of Ilford, in the Becontreehundred of Essex. According to the 2011 census in Fairlop ward, the population...
parish of Barking covered an area of 12,307 acres (49.80 km2) in the Becontreehundred. The parish was the largest in Essex in terms of area and was divided...
Jim Cornell". Buildingconservation.com. Retrieved 27 April 2010. "Becontreehundred – East Ham | British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved...
its suburbs. The ancient parish of Walthamstow formed part of the Becontreehundred of Essex. It was grouped into the West Ham poor law union in 1837...
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