Dagenham Dock is a place in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in

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, England. It is located to the south of

Dagenham Dagenham () is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Dagenham is centred east of Charing Cross. It was historically a rural parish in the Becontree Hundred of Essex, stretching from Hainault Fore ...

and on the

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. It was once the site of a large coaling port and continues to be the location of a small terminal licensed to handle coal off-loading. Today the site is used for a number of river-related uses including a TDG (now

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) depot with around 200 tanks for storage of petrol, distillates,

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History

The dock was constructed at the site of Dagenham Breach, an area of flooded marsh caused by the breaching of the sea wall in 1707, and repeatedly flooded in the 18th Century. After a number of failed attempts, in 1865 Sir John Rennie built a jetty and a branch railway, but the company failed financially. The site was acquired and Dagenham Dock was constructed over from 1887 by Samuel Williams. Historic records o
Samuel Williams & Sons and John Hudson Ltd
are held at Barking and Dagenham Archive Service, Valence House Museum although the full collection has not yet been fully catalogued. Early in the 20th century, HMS ''Thunderer'', the last major warship built on the Thames, was fitted out at a new jetty, still known as the Thunderer Jetty. Barking Reach Power Station was constructed between 1992 and 1995 on Chequers Lane, and was the first major generating station to be built in London for many years.

Geography

The area is planned to be the site of an environmentally sustainable business cluster, part of the London Riverside section of the Thames Gateway zone. Expansion of the little-used Dagenham Dock railway station is expected to aid the development including services on the Docklands Light Railway and

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{{LB Barking and Dagenham Thames Gateway Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Port of London Districts of London on the River Thames

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Geography

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