Barking

Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	TQ440840
Administration
London borough:	Barking & Dagenham
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Essex (1965)
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Post office and telephone
Post town:	BARKING
Postal district:	IG11
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:	Barking
London Assembly:	City and East
European Parliament:	London
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Barking is the principal town in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is a suburban development with a large retail and commercial centre situated to the west of the borough and 9.1 miles (14.6 km) east north-east of Charing Cross. Image File history File links Greater_london_outline_map. ... Image File history File links Red_pog. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... The administrative area of Greater London contains 32 London Boroughs, of which 12 (plus the City of London) make up Inner London and 20 Outer London. ... The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is a London borough in East London. ... Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. ... Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London and forms one of the nine regions of England. ... The region, also known as Government Office Region, is currently the highest tier of local government subnational entity of England in the United Kingdom. ... Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London and forms one of the nine regions of England. ... Constituent country is an official term used to describe three of the four principal component parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK): England; Scotland; Wales. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. ... The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England. ... Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London and forms one of the nine regions of England. ... The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England into around forty areas, which were used for both administrative and general geographical demarcation for several hundreds of years. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... There are a number of policing agencies in the United Kingdom. ... The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is the Home Office police force responsible for Greater London, with the exception of the square mile of the City of London. ... Fire brigades in the United Kingdom are organised on a territorial basis. ... The London Fire Brigade (LFB) provides fire fighting and rescue services in London, UK. It is the third largest fire department in the world with nearly 7000 staff. ... This is a list of ambulance services in the United Kingdom: Ambulance services in England: Category: ... The London Ambulance Service (LAS) is the largest ambulance service in the world that does not directly charge its patients for its services. ... A post town is a required part of all UK postal addresses. ... UK postal codes are known as postcodes. ... IG11 is the postcode for Barking in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in East London. ... The UK telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Numbering Plan, is regulated by the Office of Communications (Ofcom), which replaced the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) in 2003. ... 020 is the STD code for Greater London in the United Kingdom. ... The United Kingdom House of Commons is made up of Members of Parliament (MPs). ... Barking is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Greater London is divided into a number of constituencies for London Assembly elections. ... City and East is a constituency represented in the London Assembly. ... The European Parliament building in Strasbourg The inside of the building The European Parliament (formerly European Parliamentary Assembly) is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... London is a constituency of the European Parliament. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... This is a partial list of places in London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. ... The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is a London borough in East London. ... The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ...

History

The manor of Barking was the site of Barking Abbey, a nunnery founded in 666 by Eorcenwald, bishop of London, destroyed by the Danes and reconstructed about a hundred years later in 970 by King Edgar. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, Barking Abbey was demolished: the parish church, St Margaret's stands upon its site, where some walling and foundations are all that otherwise remain. The Norman church of St Margaret was where Captain James Cook married Elizabeth Batts of Shadwell in 1762. Events Wighard elected Archbishop of Canterbury Chertsey Abbey is founded Barking Abbey is founded Deaths Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (birthdate unknown; other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665) Categories: ... St. ... Events Major volcano eruption in Mashu Japan Devastating decade long famine begins in France Byzantine Emperor John I successfully defends the Eastern Roman Empire from massive barbarian invasion Construction completed on Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, worlds oldest Islamic university Births Leif Ericson, Norse explorer Seyyed Razi, important Muslim... King Edgar or Eadgar I ( 942 – July 8, 975) was the younger son of King Edmund I of England. ... The Dissolution of the Monasteries (referred to by Roman Catholic writers as the Suppression of the Monasteries) was the formal process, taking place between 1538 and 1541, by which King Henry VIII confiscated the property of the Roman Catholic monastic institutions in England and took them to himself, as the... Events February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... The Nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the nave anticipates the Gothic style. ... James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Barking was an urban district from 1894 and became a municipal borough in 1931. The Municipal Borough of Barking was abolished in 1965 along with the Municipal Borough of Dagenham and the area became part of the London Borough of Barking (renamed Barking and Dagenham in 1980 [1], although this expression circulated unofficially from the beginning of the fusion to console Dagenham residents). ^{[citation needed]} In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A borough is a political division originally used in England. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Barking - officially Barking Town - was a local government district in south west Essex from 1894 to 1965 around the town of Barking. ... Dagenham was a local government district in south west Essex from 1926 to 1965 around the town of Dagenham. ...

Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Berecingas, meaning either "the settlement of the followers or descendants of a man called Bereca" or "the settlement by the birch trees". Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ...

William the Conqueror

Throughout his life, William's greatest fear was that of rebellion. To counter this threat, when he distributed land to his nobles their estates were always separated by many miles obliging his barons to occupy themselves with their personal administration rather than have time free to group amongst themselves to plot treason. At the same time, although Rouen is the capital of Normandy, William's court was equally always on the move from one city to another. After his coronation in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066, he established his very first council as King of England in Barking Abbey before quickly moving on to Epping Forest. Location within France Rouen Cathedral The entrance to Rouen Cathedral Abbey church of Saint-Ouen, (chevet) in Rouen Rouen, medieval house Rouen (pronounced in French, sometimes also ) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France, and presently the capital of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) région. ... Mont Saint Michel, one of the famous symbols of Normandy. ... The coronation of Empress Farah, of Iran in 1967. ... The Abbeys western façade The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to as Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. ... Joseph and Mary with baby Jesus, at the first Christmas Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus. ... Epping Forest is an area of ancient woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex. ...

Fishing

Barking was a fishing village attached to Barking Abbey but independent at least from the Tudor period. Fisher Street was named after the fishing community there. From about 1775 welled and dry smacks were used, mostly as cod boats. Fishermen sailed as far as Iceland in the summer. They served Billingsgate Fish Market in the City of London, and moored up at home in Barking Pool. Samuel Hewett, born on 7 December 1797, founded the Short Blue Fleet (England's biggest fishing fleet) based in Barking, and using smacks out of Barking and east coast ports. This fleet used gaff ketches which stayed out at sea for months, using ice for preservation of fish. This ice was produced by flooding local fields in winter. Fleeting involved fish being ferried from fishing smacks to steamer-carriers by little wooden ferry-boats. The rowers had to stand as the boats were piled high with fish-boxes. Rowers refused to wear their bulky cork lifejackets because it slowed down their rowing. At first the fast fifty-foot gaff cutters with great booms projecting beyond the sterns were employed to race the fish to port to get the best prices. Billingsgate Fish Market in 1876. ... Coat of arms The City of London is a small area in Greater London. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

There was also a trade in live fish, using the welled smacks in which the central section of the hull, between two watertight bulkheads, was pierced to create a 'well' in which seawater could circulate. Cod caught live were lowered into this well, with their swim bladders pierced, and remained alive until the vessel returned to port, when they were transferred to semi-submerged 'chests,' effectively cages, which kept them alive until they were ready for sale. At this point they were pulled out and killed with a blow on the head before being despatched to market, where because of their freshness they commanded a high price. People who practised this method of fishing were known as 'codbangers.'

However, the opening of direct rail links between the North Sea ports and London meant it was quicker to transport fish by train from these ports straight to the capital rather than waiting for ships to take the longer route down the east coast and up the River Thames to Barking. In addition, by the 1850s the Thames was so severely polluted that fish kept in chests quickly died. Consequently, the Barking fishery slipped into decline in the second half of the nineteenth century. Many of its leading figures, including Hewett & Co, moved to Great Yarmouth and to Grimsby. By 1900, Barking had ceased to exist as a working fishing port, leaving only a few street and pub names as a reminder of its former importance to the town. The Thames (pronounced []) is a river flowing through southern England, in its lower reaches flowing through London into the sea. ... Map sources for Great Yarmouth at grid reference TG5207 Great Yarmouth is an English coastal town in the county of Norfolk. ... Statistics Population: 87,574 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TA279087 Administration District: North East Lincolnshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: North East Lincolnshire Historic county: Lincolnshire Services Police force: Humberside Police Ambulance service: {{{Ambulance}}} Post office and telephone Post town...

Natives

• The Edge, lead guitarist of the Irish rock band U2
• John Terry, currently captain of both Chelsea F.C. and England national football team.
• Bobby Moore, captain of the England world cup-winning team of 1966.
• Billy Bragg, left wing singer/songwriter.
• Geoffrey Kaiser, Captain of the England basketball team
• Trevor Brooking, football player turned manager, pundit and administrator.
• Bobby Zamora, football player West Ham United F.C..

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Transport

The town is situated north of the A13 road and east of the River Roding near its junction with the River Thames in East London. Barking station is a local transport hub and is served by the London Underground, National Rail operators and many London Bus routes. The east of Barking is served by Upney tube station. The A13 is a trunk road in England linking the City of London with East London and south Essex. ... The River Roding is a river that rises near Dunmow, flows through Essex and forms Barking Creek as it reaches the River Thames in London Categories: UK geography stubs | London Rivers | Rivers in Essex ... The Thames (pronounced []) is a river flowing through southern England, in its lower reaches flowing through London into the sea. ... East London is the name commonly given to the eastern part of London on the north side of the River Thames. ... Barking station is a London Underground and National Rail station located in Barking in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in East London. ... The nickname the Tube comes from the circular tube-like tunnels through which the small-profile trains travel. ... National Rail uses the BR double-arrow logo National Rail is a brand name of the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC). ... An Enviro 400 bus, a modern interpretation of the famous London red double-decker. ... Upney tube station is a London Underground station on the District Line, located in Upney, East London. ...

Nearest places

• Dagenham
• East Ham
• Beckton
• Ilford

Dagenham is a town within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. ... East Ham is a place in the London Borough of Newham. ... Beckton is a place in the London Borough of Newham, located 8 miles (12. ... Ilford is a town in the London Borough of Redbridge in East London. ...

Nearest stations

• Barking station
• Upney tube station

Barking station is a London Underground and National Rail station located in Barking in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in East London. ... Upney tube station is a London Underground station on the District Line, located in Upney, East London. ...

Schools

Primary Schools

Secondary Schools

See also

• Barking Abbey Secondary School
• Entry on List of schools in the United Kingdom

Barking Abbey Secondary School (sometimes referred to as Barking Abbey School: A Specialist Sports College or just Barking School) is a secondary school located in Barking, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. ... The following is a partial list of currently operating schools in the United Kingdom. ...

External links

• Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council website
• 1911 encyclopedia entry
• St Margaret's Church