Job Drain
Job Drain is a memorial in Barking and Dagenham, Greater London, England. Job Drain is situated nearby to Greatfields Park, as well as near Barking Fire Station.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Greatfields Park and Barking Abbey.
Greatfields Park
Park
Photo: Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0.
Greatfields Park, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, east London, is a public park of just under 6 hectares. It lies just north of the A13 road, and is bounded on other sides by Greatfields Road, Movers Lane, and Perth Road. Greatfields Park is situated 450 feet east of Job Drain.
Barking Abbey
Park
Photo: MRSC, Public domain.
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. Barking Abbey is situated 3,300 feet northwest of Job Drain.
St Patrick’s Church
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Patrick's Church is a grade II listed church on Blake Avenue in the Eastbury district in Barking. It was formed in 1924 as the temporary Church of the Ascension, which was turned into a parish hall in 1940 after being replaced by the permanent brown-brick church, dedicated to Saint Patrick and designed in the Moderne style by A. St Patrick’s Church is situated 1,800 feet northeast of Job Drain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barking and Thames View Estate.
Barking
Town
Photo: MRSC, Public domain.
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.
Thames View Estate
Suburb
Thames View Estate is a large housing estate in Barking and Dagenham in East London, England.
Wall End
Locality
Wall End is a locality in East Ham in East London, located in the borough of Newham. It is a little-used name for the area lying to the north of Beckton between Barking and East Ham.
Job Drain
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Job Drain 1895-1975 awarded the Victoria Cross. Great War 1914-1918. Lived Here.”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Barking and Dagenham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.53145° or 51° 31′ 53″ northLongitude
0.08832° or 0° 5′ 18″ eastOpen location code
9F32G3JQ+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 13476500923OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Highlights include Barking Fire Station and Salvation Army Community Hall.
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