Barking, Barking and Dagenham

Location Map

Barking is a settlement in Barking and Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Barking within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Barking in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Barking.-- par. and market town, S. Essex, 2 miles N. of river Thames, 7 miles E. of London by rail -- 12,307 ac., pop, 16,848; town, 3814 ac., pop. 9203. Market-day, Saturday. It has a large jute factory and other manufacturing works; there are also extensive market gardens.

Barking in the Domesday Book

A village in Becontree hundred, in the county of Essex.

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