Dagenham

Dagenham is a town in East London, England. In the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, it is 11.5 miles 18.5 km east of Charing Cross and 9.5 miles 15.2 km east of the City of London. Verifiably an area in the region of Essex, it was an agrarian town and remained for the most part undeveloped until 1921, when the London County Council started development of the huge Becontree home. The number of inhabitants in the territory altogether expanded in the twentieth century, with the area of Dagenham turning into a urban region in 1926 and a metropolitan ward in 1938.

It has shaped piece of Greater London since 1965 and is a transcendently local location, with a few zones of declining modern action, including the Ford Dagenham plant. The southern piece of Dagenham, contiguous the River Thames, shapes some portion of the London Riverside segment of the Thames Gateway redevelopment territory. Dagenham originally showed up in an archive as Daeccanhaam in a sanction of Barking Abbey dating from 666 AD. The name more likely than not began with a little farmstead, the "ham" or ranch of a man called Daecca, as Dæccan hamm in Old English means home of a man called Daecca.