A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Barking. You may be able to find further references to Barking in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | BARKING, or Berking | a town, a subdistrict, and a parish | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Barking.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Chadwell | school | Bartholomew | CHADWELL, or Chadwell-Heath | a ward | Imperial | Creek's Mouth | school | Bartholomew | Heath, Little | hamlet | Bartholomew | ILFORD (GREAT) | a small town, a chapelry, and a ward | Imperial | Ilford, (or Great Ilford) | town and railway station | Bartholomew | RIPPLE | a ward | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Barking within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 5 | William Camden | Essex and Suffolk | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 1 | Paul Hentzner | Departure: Canterbury and Dover | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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| East Ham | 0 | 3 |
| Little Ilford | 0 | 2 |
| Ilford | 3 | 3 |
| Upton Park | 0 | 1 |
| Upton | 0 | 2 |
| Plaistow | 0 | 2 |
| North Woolwich | 0 | 3 |
| Forest Gate | 0 | 2 |
| Aldersbrook | 0 | 2 |
| Becontree | 0 | 2 |
| Victoria Dock | 0 | 2 |
| Woolwich | 8 | 2 |
| Silvertown | 0 | 2 |
| Dagenham | 2 | 2 |
| West Ham | 2 | 3 |
| Canning Town | 0 | 3 |
| Cann Hall | 0 | 2 |
| Stratford | 0 | 2 |
| Plumstead | 0 | 2 |
| Aldborough Hatch | 0 | 2 |