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A History of the County of Essex
… Police Area, embraces in Essex the entire hundred of Becontree, together with the present borough of Chingford and … by the early years of this century all the parishes in the Becontree hundred (except Dagenham) had become in some degree … territorial limits are set by the ancient hundreds of Becontree and Waltham. Most of the suburban districts of …
A History of the County of Essex
… than the average. Taken as a whole, the region covered by Becontree and Waltham hundreds conformed fairly closely to … summarized in Table 1. Table 1 Population and Houses in Becontree and Waltham Hundreds, 180151 a Parish Ward or …
A History of the County of Essex
… no administrative difficulty in providing a supply for the Becontree Estate. Wanstead and Woodford, however, remained …
A History of the County of Essex
… although most of the houses in Dagenham were on the Becontree Estate, which was built and managed to be a major … of the overcrowded families in taking lodgers. On the Becontree Estate as a whole there were 223 lodgers in every … The main reason for overcrowding was that families on the Becontree Estate were comparatively large doubtless the still …
A History of the County of Essex
… only 1,504. 3 The statistics for the suburban areas in Becontree and Waltham Hundreds are given in Table 10. One … County Council which in 1919 bought a large estate at Becontree, mainly within the parish of Dagenham but extending … for houses by Londoners, since most of the tenants at Becontree were voluntary applicants for accommodation there, …
A History of the County of Essex
… those of growth. For about a century the area of the old Becontree and Waltham hundreds had been the scene of one of …
Modern Britain and Ireland - awarded 1990-1999
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… with special reference to the London County Council's Becontree and Dagenham estate. Olechnowicz, Andrzej J. … Waller, P.J. Chronological coverage: 19191939 Index terms: Becontree, Essex; Dagenham, Essex; Housing; Municipal housing …
A History of the County of Essex
… of a division of the county including Barstable, Becontree, and Chafford hundreds. 9 Brentwood was the most …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… chapelry, in the parish and union of West Ham, hundred of Becontree, S. division of Essex, 5 miles (E. by N.) from …
Survey of London
… estates of that type built in the 1920s and 1930s were Becontree in Essex and Downham in Kent, both of which were … Poplar Borough Council urged the LCC to proceed with the Becontree Estate 'with the utmost rapidity', in view of the … by the census figures. 80 By November 1934 the LCC's Becontree Estate, to which most nominations from Poplar were …