
Becontree Heath | Barking & Dagenham |
|
|
|
Fuller information:
Becontree Heath was a large area of commonland, probably the meeting place of the ancient Saxon Hundred Court. By 1777 the hamlet of Becontree Heath had grown up, a couple of miles north of the main centre of population in Dagenham village. It comprised a cluster of houses on the unenclosed common at the meeting of a number of important early routes, Wood Lane, Green Lane and Whalebone Lane to which there are references from the C14th. At one time at the south-east corner of the heath was a tower mill, which was converted to steam by 1894. The Dagenham area remained rural until the 1920s, after which it began to change radically as housing as well as industrial use accelerated and at Becontree Heath only a few C19th buildings survive among the proliferation of houses, shops and other facilities.Sources consulted:
Implementation Enquiry, 9/2/38 by Urban District Council of Dagenham - Evidence of Engineer and Surveyor; Dagenham Digest October 1949, March 1955; James Howson, 'A Brief History of Barking and Dagenham' (LB B&D Libraries Dept., 1990); 'Dagenham: Introduction and manors', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5, ed. W R Powell (London, 1966), pp. 267-281 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol5/pp267-281 [accessed 14 March 2015].Grid ref: | TQ495870 |
Size in hectares: | |
On EH National Register : | No |
EH grade : | |
Site on EH Heritage at Risk list: | |
Registered common or village green on Commons Registration Act 1965: |
No |
Protected under London Squares Preservation Act 1931: |
No |
The information below is taken from the relevant Local Authority's planning legislation, which was correct at the time of research but may have been amended in the interim. Please check with the Local Authority for latest planning information. | |
On Local List: | |
In Conservation Area: | No |
Conservation Area name: | |
Tree Preservation Order: | Not known |
Nature Conservation Area: | No |
Green Belt: | No |
Metropolitan Open Land: | No |
Special Policy Area: | No |
Other LA designation: | |
| Page Top |