Barking Riverside
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Barking Riverside by Marathon as part of the Geograph project.
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Barking Riverside
Image: © Marathon Taken: 9 Nov 2016
Barking Riverside is a huge new 11,000 home development on the old Barking Levels. The land was originally grazing marshes consisting of flat, low-lying grasslands, dissected by ditches and it survived in this form until the 1920s. Much of this has now gone although a few of the ditches and water bodies have been incorporated into the new development as seen here. That is probably the best thing about the development as the 'architecture' is, to be kind, nondescript. An interesting article about Barking Riverside can be seen at https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/17/no-cafe-pub-doctor-londons-most-isolated-suburb-barking-riverside
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Image Location
Latitude
51.522284
Longitude
0.102894