London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

The River Roding shapes the setting of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham — flowing south through Barking to its confluence with the Thames, it links an old riverside settlement with the dense fabric of East London. Barking Abbey Green preserves the ruins of Barking Abbey, an Anglo-Saxon foundation whose history reaches back to the 7th century. Its grounds form a calm civic space beside the town centre. To the east, the Becontree Estate was built by the London County Council between the wars, while Ford's Dagenham plant, opened in 1931, anchors the area's industrial story. Move on to other webcams in the region to compare landscapes and settings across East London and the Thames estuary.

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