Barking Park
Park in Barking, London, England
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Barking Park is a public park covering 30 hectares to the northeast of Barking town centre in east London. It was opened as the Recreation Ground in 1898 by the Barking Town Urban District Council and is now the oldest public park in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It lies north of Longbridge Road and south of the neighbourhood of Loxford, with the northern boundary of the park along Loxford Water also the borough boundary with Redbridge.
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London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
London borough in United Kingdom
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London Borough of Redbridge
London borough in United Kingdom
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East London
Northeastern part of London, United Kingdom
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Battle of Barking Creek
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Municipal Borough of Ilford
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