Becontree was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Essex, England. Its area has been entirely absorbed by the growth of London; with its...

Becontree /ˈbɛkəntriː/ or /ˈbiːkəntriː/ is an area of approximately 4 square miles (10 km2) in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is located...

Becontree is a housing estate of around 100,000 people in East London Becontree can also refer to: Becontree tube station, London Becontree Hundred, an...

a small rural settlement in the ancient parish of Barking in the Becontree hundred of the historic county of Essex, its strategic position on the River...

east of Charing Cross. It was historically a rural parish in the Becontree Hundred of Essex, stretching from Hainault Forest in the north to the River...

Plan. Historically part of the ancient parish of Hornchurch in the Becontree hundred of Essex, it has been a market town since 1247. It formed the administrative...

Historically, it was part of the ancient parish of Leyton in the Becontree hundred of Essex. The first documented evidence of settlement is from the...

with royalty is unrecorded. Havering was recorded as part of the Becontree hundred of Essex in the Domesday Book of 1086. The manor was held directly...

formed from land taken from Becontree hundred. In the time of Edward I, Clavering and Freshwell were each considered half-hundreds in Essex. At the start of...

Becontree Heath functioned as the ancient meeting place for Becontree hundred, which covered much of what is now East London. In 1465, the hundred lost...

historically part of the ancient parish of Leyton St Mary in the Becontree hundred and part of the ancient county of Essex. The town expanded rapidly...

formed a large ancient parish of around 4,500 acres (18 km2) in the Becontree hundred of Essex. The parish was made up of three wards: Church-street, Stratford-Langthorne...

Underground. Walthamstow was a civil parish, originally part of the Becontree Hundred of Essex. As part of the suburban growth of London, the town expanded...

Historically part of the ancient parish of Woodford St Mary, in the Becontree hundred of Essex, the area was largely rural before developing rapidly in...

northeast of Charing Cross. Historically an ancient parish in the Becontree hundred of Essex, it was granted urban district status in 1894, and formed...

a plastics factory. Hornchurch was a large ancient parish in the Becontree hundred of Essex; it was divided into the three chapelries of Havering-atte-Bower...

division; instead it was part of the ancient parish of Ilford in the Becontree hundred of the county of Essex, which formed from 1894, the Ilford Urban District...

Barking was a large ancient parish of 12,307 acres (49.80 km2) in the Becontree hundred of Essex. It was divided into the wards of Chadwell, Ilford, Ripple...

Lewisham, Woolwich and Mottingham. The northern boundary with the Becontree hundred of Essex was mainly the River Thames; however there was also a short...

the end of the 12th century. East Ham was originally part of the hundred of Becontree, part of the historic county of Essex. East Ham Local Government...

Woolwich was originally in the eastern part of the Manor of Ham, in the Becontree hundred of Essex; a territory that was subsequently divided into the more...

St Mary after its parish church of St Mary's, formed part of the Becontree hundred of Essex. It was suburban to London and formed part of the Metropolitan...

of the parish of West Ham, which formed an ancient parish in the hundred of Becontree in Essex. Following reform of local government in London in 1965...

Archived 30 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 23 February 2008 Becontree hundred: East Ham, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp....

a half-hundred). Four parishes starting with Hackney bordered the Becontree hundred of Essex to the east. Finally two of these land-border parishes and...

2012. The London Encyclopaedia, 1983, edited by Weinreb and Hibbert 'Becontree hundred: East Ham', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6, ed. W R...

Jim Cornell". Buildingconservation.com. Retrieved 27 April 2010. "Becontree hundred – East Ham | British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved...

situation on Dagenham Marsh. The abbey was granted "various liberties in Becontree hundred" in 1392 and 1462, and exempted from payment of "tenths" for ten years...

parish of Barking covered an area of 12,307 acres (49.80 km2) in the Becontree hundred. The parish was the largest in Essex in terms of area and was divided...

the world. The name Becontree was not used for a settlement at that time, but the estate was named after the ancient Becontree hundred, which historically...