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Becontree Heath
An area of the London Borough Of Barking And Dagenham. It is the location of the former Dagenham Civic Centre, a grade II listed, 1930s art deco building designed by Ernest Berry Webber and the former town hall of Dagenham Borough Council.
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Becontree Heath functioned as the ancient meeting place for Becontree hundred, which covered much of what is now East London. In 1465, the hundred lost territory in the east and the meeting place became located on its fringe.When it was still a rural parish, Becontree Heath was a hamlet in Dagenham
Sixty neighbourhoods in Barking and Dagenham are among the 20pc most “deprived” in England, according to government figures.
A total of 55 per cent of the borough's neighbourhoods have ranked 6,500 or lower out of 32,844 in the country and are classed as struggling with high levels of deprivation.
