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Barking and Dagenham
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is a London borough in East London and forms part of Outer London.
The borough borders the London Borough of Havering to the east with the River Rom forming part of the boundary. It borders the London Borough of Newham to the west with the River Roding forming much of the border. To the south is the River Thames which forms the borough's boundary with the London Borough of Bexley and the London Borough of Greenwich. To the north the borough forms a thin protrusion between Havering and the London Borough of Redbridge in order to encompass Chadwell Heath.
History
The borough was formed in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963 as the London Borough of Barking. The constituent parts were the greater part of the Municipal Borough of Barking and the entire Municipal Borough of Dagenham, the former area of which was transferred to Greater London from Essex. At the time of the amalgamation the combined population of Barking and Dagenham was around 180,000, the northern tip of Dagenham having been incorporated into Redbridge and a small area of Barking in Newham.
The borough was renamed Barking and Dagenham in 1980. In 2004 a wind turbine was constructed on the Ford Motors plant grounds in the south east of the borough with another turbine in adjacent Havering.
Areas
The borough consists of and includes the following areas:
- Barking
- Becontree
- Becontree Heath
- Chadwell Heath
- Creekmouth
- Dagenham
- Rush Green
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