Barking: Thames Gateway, the Abbey Ruins, and East London's Industrial Edge
Barking was an Essex fishing town until the trawler fleet relocated to Grimsby in the 1850s. The ruins of Barking Abbey, founded in 666 AD and one of the most important nunneries in medieval England, survive next to St Margaret's Church. The town industrialised heavily in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The population of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is around 212,000. The Barking Riverside development, one of London's largest housing projects, is adding thousands of homes along the Thames.
Barking station is a major interchange: c2c services to Fenchurch Street, District and Hammersmith and City lines, and the Overground extension to Barking Riverside. The A13 runs through the borough connecting to the City and to Southend. For adult companionship, Barking is covered by the Metropolitan Police and falls under England and Wales criminal law.
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Barking was an Essex fishing town until the trawler fleet relocated to Grimsby in the 1850s. The ruins of Barking Abbey, founded in 666 AD and one of the most important nunneries in medieval England, survive next to St Margaret's Church. The town industrialised heavily in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The population of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is around 212,000. The Barking Riverside development, one of London's largest housing projects, is adding thousands of homes along the Thames.
Barking station is a major interchange: c2c services to Fenchurch Street, District and Hammersmith and City lines, and the Overground extension to Barking Riverside. The A13 runs through the borough connecting to the City and to Southend. For adult companionship, Barking is covered by the Metropolitan Police and falls under England and Wales criminal law.
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