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Dagenham

Dagenham is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

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The place

Dagenham is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Dagenham is centred 11+1⁄2 miles east of Charing Cross.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Dagenham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 39 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 42 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 49 km
  • London → Dagenham
    21 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £2–3
  • Luton, Luton → Dagenham
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Dagenham
    175 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–25
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dagenham

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 Dagenham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.

From Wikivoyage: London/East, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    138 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    337 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    381 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    568 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    603 km

If you know how people move in Dagenham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Dagenham

Dagenham is 17 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.