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Dagenham ('Daecca's home') was probably one of the earliest Saxon settlements in Essex: the name is first recorded in a charter of A.D. 687. (fn. 10) From the 13th century onwards references to the parish, its farms and hamlets, are sufficiently numerous to suggest a flourishing community.
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The Forest of Essex, as defined in 1225, included inter alia...
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Dagenham is centred 11.5 miles (18.5 km) east of Charing Cross. It was historically a rural parish in the Becontree Hundred of Essex, stretching from Hainault Forest in the north to the River Thames in the south. Dagenham remained mostly undeveloped until 1921, when the London County Council began construction of the large Becontree ...
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Dagenham’s name was first recorded around 687 – as Dæccanhaam, the homestead of a man called Dæcca. The ‘Dagenham Idol’, a wooden figure dug out of the marshes in 1922, is possibly from the Bronze Age. It is believed that it was buried as a talisman to help crops grow.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dagenham like this: DAGENHAM, a parish in Romford district, Essex; on an affluent of the Thames, and on the London and Southend railway, 2 miles WNW of Rainham r. station, and 3½ S by W of Romford.
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