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| | EoLFHS Parishes: Dagenham |
 | | Dagenham Breach, or, as it is now called, Dagenham Lake, is an inlet of the Thames, above 1½ miles in length, with an area of nearly 60 acres, formed, as its name implies, by a breach in the Thames wall. |
| | Dagenham is a long straggling village, chiefly of cottages, some pretty good, some decent, but too many poor, low, and dirty thatched mud huts. |
| | Elizabeth Fry used for some years (1826 onwards) to spend her summers in a cottage by Dagenham Lake, "surrounded by trees, mostly willows, on an open space of lawn, with beds of reeds behind them, and on either side covering the river bank." |
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