Barking Abbey School

Barking Abbey School is a secondary school and specialist sports and humanities college located in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It serves students from the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, and Newham.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Barking Park and St Erkenwald’s Church, Barking.

Barking Park

Park

Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Barking Park is a public park covering 30 hectares to the northeast of Barking town centre in east London. It was opened as the Recreation Ground in 1898 by the Barking Town Urban District Council and is now the oldest public park in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Barking Park is situated 1,500 feet west of Barking Abbey School.

St Erkenwald’s Church, Barking

Church

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St Erkenwald's Church is a Church of England parish church on Levett Road, Barking in Greater London. It was established as a temporary church in 1934, which was only replaced by a permanent red-brick church twenty years later – the latter was part-funded by money from a War Damage payment for Holy Trinity Church, Canning Town, destroyed in the London Blitz. St Erkenwald’s Church, Barking is situated 1,200 feet southeast of Barking Abbey School.

Loxford School

School

Loxford School, formerly Loxford School of Science and Technology, is a mixed all-through school with academy status in the Ilford area of the London Borough of Redbridge, England. Loxford School is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Barking Abbey School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Loxford and Barking.

Loxford

Quarter

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Loxford is an area of Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge in east London, UK. It is a built-up, multi-ethnic locality.

Barking

Town

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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.