Becontree
Becontree is an area of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, England, 11 miles (17.7 km) northeast of Charing Cross.
Becontree is an area of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, England, 11 miles (17.7 km) northeast of Charing Cross. It was constructed between 1921 and 1935 as the largest public housing estate in the world. The Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919 allowed London County Council to build housing outside the County of London and Becontree was designed to cottage estate principles in Barking, Dagenham and Ilford, then in the administrative county of Essex. The official completion of the estate was celebrated in 1935, by which time the estate had a population of around 100,000 people in 26,000 homes.
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Getting to Becontree
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 38 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 43 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 50 km
- London → Becontree18 km · quickest by road, 1h · £2–2.5
- Luton, Luton → Becontree52 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £6–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Becontree173 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Becontree
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Becontree. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.
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Next door to Becontree
Becontree is 17 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.