Edith's Streets

Thames Tributary- Tributary stream to the River Roding The stream rises in this area and flows west towards the Roding. It is joined by another stream from the south. TL 60 09 Post to the west Dukes Lane 59 09 Post to the south Shellow Bowells 60 10 Shellow Road Torrell’s Hall . Manor in the parish of Willingale Doe named after the Torrell family who lived here in the 14th century. The Present house dates from the 16th and is believed to overlie a predecessor. This is a very complex building with numerous alterations. The southern block is an addition of c.1800 by John Johnson, in Gault brick. The 16th block has a complete open well staircase, Moated site south west of the Hall. It includes an island contained in a seasonally water-filled moat. Moats in the 12th were usually built as prestige items rather than defence. Motte and bailey – possible remains. Farm buildings at Torrells Hall. Model group of farm buildings in 19th red brick. Three sided courtyard with buildings on a...

Thames Tributary- tributary stream to the River Roding The stream rises in this area and flows north towards the Roding Shellow Bowells TL 60 08 Post to the north Torrell's Hall 60 09 Post to the west Willingale 59 08 Shellow Road Pound House . Late 17th timber framed Shellow Hall . Early 17th and later timber framed house. At the back an old kitchen/brewhouse with a wide timber beamed fireplace with a copper and bread oven. In the loft is a 17th window with original fittings and diamond leaded lights. On the walls outside are some bits of old pargetting Moat, this was in a figure of 8 shape Barn near Shellow Hall. Mid 16th timber framed with asbestos roof Shellow Hall Cottage . 17th or earlier, timber framed thatched house Church of St.Peter and St.Paul made redundant in 1974 and now housing. It is a rare 18th church in red brick with a weather boarded bell cupola with a weathervane. There is a stone date plaque which says '1754'. Shellow Cottages. Perh...

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The Tributary flows eastwards to the Roding Rural area with scattered farms Post to the west Norwood End Post to the east Bird's Green Post to the north - Beauchamp Roding  Post to the south - Fyfield Dunmow Road Butt Hatch Farm . In its earlier form 'Burnthatch', the name of this farm, goes back at least to 1542. The house is a square double-fronted 19th building Roden Lodge , 19th house on the site of the Rood Inn, The house was once called Rood House. In the grounds is a 19th, timber encased pump with curved, iron handle. The spout of lead an dated In the centre '1800' and initial I.H. Perryfield Lane Sources Pevsner and Cherry. Essex

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding continues to flow southwards TL 59334 09697 Sparsly populated country area - scattered farms and many conversions to fishing lakes Post to the north - Waples Mill - 59 11 Post to the west Beauchamp Roding 58 10 Post to the south Dukes Lane 59 09 Ongar Road Flands Cottages Elms Farm. Farmhouse. 17th timber framed Elms farm brew house. Timber framed, black weather boarded Elm farm . 19th stables and cart shed Lake – built in the early 21st on agricultural land and now a carp fishery. Sources British Listed Buildings. Web site Pevsner and Cherry. Essex

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding flows southwards and is joined by a tributary from the west TL 58177 09481 Countryside area with scattered farms and houses Post to the north - Abbess Roding 58 11 Post to the west Beauchamp Roding 58 10 P ost to the south Birds Green - 58 09 Post to the east Berners Roding School Lane Hornets Farm. This was  formerly Horners manor and dates at least to the 17th. The farm-house is 18th, and timber-framed. A window in an outhouse commemorates the Local Government Act, 1929, to de-rate farm land and I said to have come from a chapel in Notting Hill. Private burial ground near the drive gate of Hornets where the former farm owner, Isaac Mead and his wife, Susan, are buried Gubbiss Farm. This has been demolished but stood near Hornets and Butt Hatch. The house was 16th  The Old Rectory. 17th House. 2 storey timber framed and plastered. Three Hurdles. 17th House timber framed and plastered old pub. Three Hurdles Lane ...

Thames Tributary – Tributary stream to the River Roding The stream rises in this area and flows east to the Roding TL 57345 09538 Countryside area strung out along what was once a main road.  Very interesting old church Post to the north - Beauchamp Roding  Post to the east Beauchamp Roding Post to the west - Norwood End  Post to the south - Butt Hatch   Beauchamp Roding St. Botolph’s Church . It is on a site which is probably of great antiquity but can only be reached by a field track and stands on rising ground. The dedication, to the East Anglian saint and patron saint of travellers, suggests that there was a church here before the Conquest. The walls are of flint rubble and freestone and the nave has an 11th- century plan. The tower was added in the 15th when the church was enlarged. In the nave are 18th oak benches in three stages with steps which can be pulled out like drawers. Churchyard . There is a pyramid shaped pudding stone monolith clo...

Thames Tributary – Tributary stream to the River Roding The stream rises in this area and flows east to the Roding. Another stream rises in this area and flows south to the River Roding. TL 56 10 Post to the east - Beauchamp Roding - 57 10 Post to the north - Beauchamp Roding - 56 11 Post to the south - Norwood End - 56 09 Butthatch Wood The wood has hornbeam, coppiced oak and ash and ground flora indicative of ancient woodland. On the western edge oak and hornbeam form a canopy Norwood End Pumpkin Hall Hales Farm . Once called Old Hides farm, 17th

Thames Tributary – Tributary stream to the River Roding The tributary stream flows east towards the Roding TL 57 11 Post to the west - Beauchamp Roding - 56 11 Post to the east Rookwood Hall 56 11 Post to the south Beauchamp Roding - 57 10 Dunmow Road Granite Trade Centre . The Old Corn Barn The Coopers . Converted pub, thatched, etc. Barn as part of Coopers. 17th timber framed and weatherboarded. Wicks Farm, demolished, was beside the Roding The Room in the Rodings . This is the village hall – converted from a cowshed in the 1920s. Council Houses School Lane, Abbess Roding Longbarns House and Farm . Longbarns was a local manorial name. In 1558 it was granted by the Crown to the then Solicitor General and his descendents became the Earls of Portland and was subsequently owned by local landowners and farmers. In 1943 it was bought by the London Co-operative Society. The Farm buildings comprise an early 19th model farm, plus a 17th timber framed barn with black weatherb...

Thames Tributary – tributary stream to the River Roding The stream rises in this area and flows eastwards to the Roding. TL 56 11 Post to the east - Beauchamp Roding - 57 11 Post to the south - Butthatch - 56 10 Rookwood Hall Rookwood Hall . This mansion which once dominated the area as home of the Capel family who left in 1700. There had been a park here, but this had disappeared by 1777. The house gradually fell into ruin Moat and enclosur e Matching Airfield built in the Second World War for the American Air Force. A new concrete road crosses the site and the moat. The officers’ mess site, called 'the water tower site', is adjacent to the west of the hall and has many buildings extant, including a water tower. A pond south of the moat Second moated enclosure south of the hall. Wood End Wood End Farm . The farm took its name from the wood which was west of it and the name can be traced to 1542. The farm-house is timber-framed with a chimney with six octagonal ...

Thames Tributary River Roding TL 59 11 Post to the west Abbess Roding 58 11 Post to the south Berners Roding 59 10 Post to the east Berners Roding 59 11 Ongar Road Waples Mill – farm with an old mill house and barns near the Roding, and a posh house slightly up hill to the east. Black Poplar –a male tree near here is a new clone with a single representative, and might derive from a genuine seedling

Thames Tributary – tributary stream to the River Roding The stream rises from two points in this area and flows south east towards the Roding. TL 59411 09894 Village centre in a country side area Post to the west - Waples Mill Berners Roding Berners Hall 16th part-moated farmhouse. House timber framed, with 19th red brick front. In the kitchen is a stone post base and a 1800 cupboard with glazed doors in the living room Red brick curved garden wall 19th Barn . Late 17th 8 bay timber framed barn, part tarred weatherboarding and part render. An 18th red brick wall enclosing the yard. Barn . Early 19th 9 bay timber framed barn. Black weatherboarding and an outer wall of in red brick Moat All Saints Church . Elements of the building date to the 14th. It once had a tower with a single bell cast in 1594. It is pulled down post 1953. Walls of flint rubble and red brick but the building is in a state of advanced decay. Pedunculate Oak tree . Girth: 3.1m, Height: 10-15, Age: 1800...

Thames Tributary – River Roding The Roding’s source is in rural Essex north of Great Dunmow. It first appears on the London AZ at TQ11 58 and is joined by a stream from the west, and later, south of Waples Mill by another stream from the east. TL 58188 10085 Countryside area with the old village school among scattered farms and fields Post to the south Beauchamp Roding 58 10 P ost to the east - Waples Mill - 59 11 Post to the west Abbess Roding 57 11 School Lane 7 House .17th, 2 storey timber framed and plastered house. Pargetting on the front wall. Old Schoolhouse. The former school, originally the parish poorhouse, closed as a school in 1923 8,9,10 Bonds Cottages. 17/18th timber framed cottages. Ingolds . House. 16th, timber framed and plastered with jettied and gabled wing Sources British Listed Buildings. Web site Essex County Council. Web site Pevsner and Cherry. Essex Victoria County History of Essex

Thames Tributary Goresbrook The brook flows south into the Thames TQ 4898181794 Heavily industrialised area leading to the riverside with busy working wharves Post to the north Dagenham Post to the west Barking Levels Post to the south Dagenham Dock  and Crossness Engines Chequers Lane The road is now blocked at the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Line. Dagenham Dock Station. It lies between Rainham and Barking stations on C2C. A station seems to have been near this site by 1865 on the London Tilbury and Southend Railway Line but east of the junction and there is very little evidence for it. The current station is named after the tidal basin which was built in 1887 and in 1908, the dock company, Samuel Williams & Sons Ltd. financed a rebuild of the station and opened it to the public but on a changed site west of Chequers Lane. The station buildings are in the London Tilbury and Southend Railway’s 1880s style with a rustic air. It is now overshadowed by the motorway and alo...

Thames Tributary Goresbrook The brook continues to flow south towards the Thames and is joined by the Ship and Shovel sewer. TQ 48303 83755 This is where the old A13 turns into the viaduct over the Ford works.  This is partly another suburban area and partly another chunk of the Ford factory Post to the north Goresbrook Park Post to the south Dagenham Riverside Post to the east Fords A13 East of the Goresbrook Interchange it is the new Thames Gateway Road built in 1999 and now the A13. The westernmost stretch is also called Choats Manor Way. Viaduct over the Ford works opened late 1999. This large fully continuous, precast pre-stressed segmental concrete structure carries the road around Ford's plant. It used glued segmental cantilevers to provide a low-maintenance structure with a 54 000 m2 monolithic deck using 1030 precast segments giving a 1750 m long continuous structure. It won a Concrete Society Certificate of Excellence and was shortlisted for a British Constructi...

Thames Tributary Goresbrook The Goresbrook rises in this area and flows southwards to the Thames TQ 48384 84130 Area of suburban Dagenham Post to the east Dagenham Heathway Post to the south Dagenham Post to the west Becontree Chaplin Road Dagenham Baptist Church . The meetings were in a hut owned by the local butcher. Later a tent was used on the site of the current church in Chaplin Road. The church itself was opened in 1927. Dagenham Avenue The Goresbrook flows underneath it . Finnymore Road Godwin Primary School Hatfield Road Hatfield Community Centre Goresbrook The source is under the District Railway Line near Parsloes Park Goresbrook Park The Goresbrook itself enters Goresbrook Park having flowed under Hedgeman’s Road. In the park it flows south through grassland but a range of plants grow along it and within it, attracting small scale wildlife. Because of the stream the area is liable to flood and unsuitable for housing. The LCC gave the land to Barking ...

Thames Tributary Beam River The Beam continues to flow south towards the Thames TQ 49112 81912 Another chunk of the Ford works and the riverside site of their now removed neon signage. Roads called after Ford models Beam River The Beam outfall lands had belonged to Romford Canal Co and were sold to Fords in 1924. Beam Outfall or Havering Great Sluice. This is an automatic sluice which closes at high tide. Without it the tide would back up the creek and flood. Post to the west Dagenham Dock Post to the east Hornchurch Marshes Post to the south Belvedere Marshes Post to the west Crossness Engines Anglia Way. This is a private road which continues Kent Avenue onto the Ford jetty. Anglia was a Ford car, made in Dagenham and launched soon after the start of the Second World War. It was made until 1967 when it was replaced by the Escort, by which time 1,594,486 had been produced. Kent Avenue The southern end is a private road within the Ford works Perry Road Hanson D...

Thames Tributary Beam River The Beam continues to flow south towards the Thames. It is joined by a connection from the lake formed from Dagenham Breach TQ 5010882363 An area of the Ford Works with all the road names called after Ford models Post to the north Dagenham Country Park Post to the east Rainham Marshes Post to the south Hornchurch Marshes A13 Thames Gateway This is the Thames Gateway Road, completed in 1999. It has an award-winning viaduct over the Ford works. Consul Avenue This is a private road within what used to be the Ford site serving various business parks. Consuls were Ford cars made in the early 1960s along with the Zephyr range, and later featured a number of models. It was replaced by/evolved into the Cortina. Thames Foundry site . This lies west of Marsh Way on the north side of Consul Drive. This was a highly mechanised iron foundry with a continuous pouring system rebuilt in the mid 1950s. It was controlled by an Oerlikon Punched Card system. Init...

Thames Tributary Beam River The Beam River flows south east towards the Thames. It is joined by the Wantz stream from the north west which itself has been joined by the Marley Stream from the north west. TQ 50508 84123 Suburban Dagenham with some countryside and a never-happened canal Post to the west Fords Post to the north Dagenham East Post to the south Dagenham Marshes Beam River The Beam River is the divide between Barking and Havering The Wantz joins the Beam River just north of Beam Bridge. It is a small, gravelly stream. Sluice. Below the confluence of the two rivers is a sluice. A pipe bridge above it marks the presumed line of the Romford Canal. Beam Valley Country Park. The Park lies at the southern end of the Dagenham Corridor, and crosses the Borough boundaries. The channel of the Romford Canal runs parallel to the Beam on the Dagenham side and is flanked by a row of hawthorns. Leys Avenue Dagenham Hospital . In 1897 West Ham Corporation built a fever hospi...

Thames Tributary Marley Stream The Marley stream continues to flow south east towards the Wantz and the Beam River. TQ 49021 83539 A bit of suburban Dagenham - the main road, ex-A13 with all that that implies, and a corner of the vast Ford works Post to the west Dagenham Post to the north Dagenham Heathway Post to the east Dagenham Baddow Close King George’s Field . This was created in 1952-3 using what had been Marsh Green Recreation Ground using a King George Jubilee Grant. Ballards Road Old Tuck Shop The Marley Stream crosses Ballards Road at the edge of the park Broad Street This once extended Ripple Street into Dagenham Chequers Lane The manor house of Cockermouth was south of the Chequers Inn. In the 19th century it replaced by Pound House, named from the manorial pound which was in the yard. It was demolished in the 1920s. The manor of Cockermouth was a tenement of Barking Abbey until 1330, when it was held by John of Cockermouth and let to a series of tenant...

Thames Tributary Marley Stream The Marley Stream rises in the area of Old Dagenham Park and flows south east to join the Wantz Stream Post to the north Dagenham Post to the west Goresbrook Park Post to the east Dagenham East Post to the south Fords Ballard’s Road Swimming Pool . This opened on 29 July 1939, cost £30,000 and was designed by F.C. Lloyd. There was a children's pool and three concrete diving boards on a gantry. These were closed in 1978 season and demolished in 1980. The Pool closed in 1979 season, following frost damage and vandalism. It was demolished after 1984. Broad Street Part of a route which was originally called French Lane which ran between Barking and Dagenham but which was reconfigured by the Becontree planners. It had run north from Ripple Street, and then became Harbutt Street, which was a name for a local farm. As part of an old village area planners used it as a shopping centre Admiral Vernon Pub . This was built in the late 1920s. It is an ...

Thames Tributary Wantz Stream The Stream runs southwards, partly culverted, toward the Beam River. TQ 49389 85365 Suburban Dagenham. Just like anywhere else Post to the north Becontree Heath Post to the south Heathway Alibon Road Richard Alibon Junior School . Built 1927 as Alibon Road School and now has a nature garden Hunters Hall Primary School built in 1928 as Rockwell Road Schools and re-organised in 1933 Dagenham Little Common This was in the area now covered by Rockwell Road/ Hunters Hall Road/ Pondfield Road/ Reede Road. In the south it met Dagenham Great Common which then stretched southwards Frizlands Lane Frizlands Manor stood at the south end of the lane on the west side. It was a moated manor demolished in 1932. It has been named when it was purchased by the de Fristling family in 1303 and stayed there until 1374. The house was rebuilt in 16th and again in the 19th. Heathway Barking and Dagenham Social Services Trinity School . Special school. Holg...

Thames Tributary Wantz Stream The Wantz continues, culverted, to flow south towards the Beam River TQ 49526 86539 On the edge of the giant Becontree Estate where there were attempts by the local council to create a centre. There is now a giant new leisure centre and one pub at least remains open.  Open space was created in the 1930s along with Dagenham's little civic centre.  There are many tower blocks set in spacious surroundings. Post to the north Crowlands Post to the south Dagenham Althorne Way Dagenham Swimming Pool designed by the Borough Architects, S.Harris and M. Maybury in 1972. Closed but used as a BMX track for a while Becontree Heath Leisure Centre opened 2011 Ashbrook Road Named for Ashbrook House, 18th house which was once called ‘Sparks’. Becontree Heath The name is also recorded as ‘Bentry Heath’. Becontree is the name of one of the ancient hundreds of Essex, and its meeting place was on Becontree Heath, a name recorded in the 13th. Originall...

Thames Tributary – Wantz Stream The Wantz may rise in this area and flow south towards the Beam River and the Thames . The Great Eastern Railway Line from Liverpool Street to Shenfield runs north westwards from Chadwell Heath Station TQ 49228 87815 Area on the outskirts of Romford with some housing but mainly facilities like schools and industrial sites Post to the north Romford Post to the south Becontree Heath Post to the west Whalebone Lane Braithwaite Avenue Named for John Braithwaite responsible for laying out the Great Eastern Railway onto which the road backs. Crow Lane Crowlands. An area named for John Crowland who lived here in 1480. A hamlet called Crowlands was on the junction of Crow Lane and Jutsums Lane by 1514 Housing was built here in the 1930s but previously this lane was narrow, winding and dirty. It has many works at the eastern end - mainly scrap, waste recycling, removals and transport works of many kinds. Jutsums Recreation Ground , small local p...

Thames Tributary Wantz Stream The Wantz stream may be fed from ditches and springs in the area around Crown Farm. It then flows south to join the Beam River and the Thames Post to the north Mawneys Post to the south Crowlands Post to the east New Romford Jubilee Close Gaysfield . NALGO Sports Ground Jutsums Lane St Agnes Church . Mission Church built 1928. London Road St Edwards Church of England Comprehensive School . Originally this was a charity school founded in 1710. Until 1728 it was in two houses, but then moved to a new building in the Market Place where it stayed until the mid 1960s when separate primary and secondary schools were built. The secondary school here has been expanded in 2001 with a new block and is now a specialist Language College Crown Cottages . These were dwellings built on Crown lands after the clearance of Hainault Forest in the 1850s. They are brick with a ‘VR AR' plaque. Crown Farm House . An early 17th farmhouse fronted in white rend...

Thames Tributary Beam The Beam flows southeast towards the Thames The Wantz Stream flows south towards the Beam River TQ 49994 84465 The old original village of Dagenham is hidden away here somewhere Post to the west Dagenham Heathway Post to the east Bretons Post to the south Dagenham Ballards Lane The Leys . This was once the fields of the manor of East Hall. Beam The river provides the dividing line between Barking and Havering –creating an area now known as the Dagenham corridor which consists largely of grassland and lakes from gravel diggings. Its earlier name was in fact ‘Le Markediche’ that is 'boundary ditch' The current name of the river comes from the ‘Beam Bridge’ a piece of wood which was used to cross it. A cascade has been placed in the river north of Rainham Road Beam Valley Path North of Rainham Road the path follows the line of the Romford Canal Canberra Road Remains of the Romford Canal east of the street Charles Road John Perry Primary...

Thames Tributary Beam River The river continues to flow south towards the Thames TQ 52065 85006 Extensive area of housing and parkland on the site of Hornchurch Battle of Britain airfield. There is also the old manor of Bretons and some remains of the Romford Canal. Post to the north Eastbrookend Post to the west Dagenham East The river is the divide between Barking and Havering, Dagenham Corridor The Beam River has also been known as the Mardyke, just to confuse things, and also called the Fleetsmouth or Dagenham Creek Adnams Walk Named for Group Captain Adnams, station commander RAF Hornchurch in 1943 Denholme Walk Wing Commander George Denholme commanded 601 Squadron at Hornchurch during the Second World War and won victories the DFC. Eastbrookend Park The Becontree Estate did not go east beyond Dagenham East station, and the Beam valley remained open and was designated as 'Green Belt; in the 1950s. Much of the area was used for gravel extraction and supploied...