Barking
Barking is a riverside town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is 9.3 miles east of Charing Cross. The total population of Barking was 218,534 in 2021.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 61,000 residents
- Description: area of east London
- Also known as: “Barking Town” and “Barking, London”
- Postal code: IG11
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barking Abbey and Ilford railway station.
Barking Abbey
Park
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The Abbey of St Mary and St Ethelburga, founded in the 7th-century and commonly known as Barking Abbey, is a former Roman Catholic, royal monastery located in Barking, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
Ilford railway station
Railway station
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Ilford railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line serving the town of Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge, east London. It is 7 miles 29 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Manor Park and Seven Kings.
Woodgrange Park railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Woodgrange Park is a railway station on Romford Road in Manor Park in the London Borough of Newham, east London. It is served by the Suffragette line of the London Overground.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ilford and Dagenham.
Ilford
Town
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Ilford is a large town in East London, England, 9 miles northeast of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Redbridge, Ilford is within the ceremonial county of Greater London.
Dagenham
Suburb
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Dagenham is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Dagenham is centred 11+1⁄2 miles 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 Thames in the south. Dagenham is situated 3 miles east of Barking.
Becontree
Suburb
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Becontree is an area of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, England, 11 miles northeast of Charing Cross. It was constructed between 1921 and 1935 as the largest public housing estate in the world. Becontree is situated 2 miles east of Barking.
Barking
- Categories: area of London, market town, and locality
- Location: Barking and Dagenham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.539° or 51° 32′ 20″ northLongitude
0.0804° or 0° 4′ 50″ eastPopulation
61,000Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9F32G3QJ+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 26422736OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2656333Wikidata ID
Q377720
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Barking” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باركينغ”
- Asturian: “Barking”
- Basque: “Barking”
- Belarusian: “Баркінг”
- Catalan: “Barking”
- Cebuano: “Barking”
- Chinese: “巴金”
- Chinese: “巴金市”
- Chinese: “柏京”
- Czech: “Barking”
- Dutch: “Barking”
- Esperanto: “Barking”
- French: “Barking”
- German: “Barking”
- Hebrew: “בארקינג, לונדון”
- Hindi: “बार्किंग”
- Irish: “Barking”
- Italian: “Barking”
- Japanese: “バーキング”
- Ladin: “Barking”
- Latin: “Berecingum”
- Malay: “Barking”
- Newari: “बार्किंग”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barking”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barking i England”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barking i London”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barking”
- Norwegian: “Barking”
- Persian: “بارکینگ”
- Polish: “Barking”
- Romanian: “Barking”
- Russian: “Баркинг”
- Scots: “Barking”
- Slovenian: “Barking”
- South Azerbaijani: “بارکینق”
- Spanish: “Barking”
- Swedish: “Barking, London”
- Swedish: “Barking”
- Turkish: “Barking”
- Ukrainian: “Баркінг”
- Urdu: “بارکنگ، لندن”
- Vietnamese: “Barking”
- Welsh: “Barking”
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