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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 403 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARKING , a See also:

market-See also:town in the See also:Romford See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England, on the See also:river Roding near its junction with the See also:Thames, 8 m. E. of Fenchurch See also:Street station and See also:Liverpool Street station, See also:London, by the London, Tilbury & Southend and See also:Great Eastern See also:railways. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district of Barking town (1891) 14,301; (1901) 21,547. The See also:church of St See also:Margaret is See also:Norman with perpendicular additions, and contains many monuments of See also:interest. Barking was celebrated for its nunnery, one of the See also:oldest and richest in England, founded about 67o by Erkenwald, See also:bishop of London, and restored in 970 by See also:King See also:Edgar, about a See also:hundred years after its destruction by the Danes. The See also:abbess was a baroness ex officio, and the See also:revenue at the See also:dissolution of the monasteries was £1084. There remains a perpendicular turreted gateway. There is also an See also:ancient market-See also:house, used as a town-See also:hall.. See also:Victoria Gardens See also:form a public See also:pleasure-ground, and there are recreation grounds. The Gaslight and See also:Coke See also:Company's See also:works at Beckton are in the See also:parish, and also extensive See also:rubber works. At the mouth of the Roding (Barking See also:Creek) are great sewage works, receiving the See also:Northern Outfall See also:sewer from London. There are also chemical works, and some See also:shipping See also:trade, principally in See also:timber and See also:fish.

Barking is a See also:

suffragan bishopric in the See also:diocese of St Albans.

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