Barking Side, Essex
Historical Description
Barking-Side, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Great Ilford civil parish, Essex. The village is 3 miles N from Ilford station on the G.E.R., and 4 N from Barking. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ilford. Population, 3464. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £170, in the gift of the Vicar of Great Ilford. The church, erected in 1840, is a building of brick in the Norman style. There is a village home here for neglected and destitute children conducted by Dr Barnardo, and there are a Free Methodist chapel and a Gospel Mission Hall.
Churches
Church of England
Holy Trinity (parish church)
The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1840, is an edifice of brick in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, organ chamber, north porch and a tower at the north-west angle, surmounted by a turret, and containing one bell: there are memorial windows to Mr. and Mrs. Whitbourn; Mr. G. H. Ingram, Mr. G. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers: the church affords about 500 sittings.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.
The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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