Ripple Nature Reserve

Ripple Nature Reserve is an 8.3-hectare Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation and Local Nature Reserve in Dagenham in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Access is restricted and requires permission.
Type: Nature reserve
Description: Nature reserve in Dagenham, London

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dagenham Dock railway station and Crossness Pumping Station.

Dagenham Dock railway station

Railway station

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Dagenham Dock is a National Rail station in the Dagenham Dock neighbourhood of Dagenham in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, east London. The station is on the Tilbury loop of the London, Tilbury and Southend line, located 10 miles 45 chains down the line from London Fenchurch Street between Barking to the west and Rainham to the east.

Crossness Pumping Station

Museum

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Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the architect Charles Henry Driver for the Metropolitan Board of Works's chief engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette.

Barking Riverside railway station

Railway station

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Barking Riverside is a railway station in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, East London. The eastern terminus of the Suffragette line of the London Overground, the station serves the Barking Riverside regeneration area and was built as part of a £327m extension of the Gospel Oak to Barking line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barking and Dagenham.

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.

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.