Barking
Barking is the principal town in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is a suburban development with a large retail and commercial centre situated to the west of the borough and 9.1 miles (14.6 km) east north-east of Charing Cross.
Places of interest
- The ruins of the Barking Abbey, first founded in 666 by Erkenwald, Bishop of London, destroyed by the Danes and reconstructed about a hundred years later in 970 by King Edgar.
- The Norman church of St Margaret. Here Captain James Cook married Elizabeth Batt of Shadwell in 1762
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