Editing Dagenham (section)

===Market gardens to suburban estate===
[[File:Dagenham village.jpg|thumb|The [[St Peter and St Paul, Dagenham|church of St Peter and St Paul]] formed the heart of the former village]]

In 1205 Dagenham was large enough to have a chaplain, and the [[St Peter and St Paul's Church, Dagenham|Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul]] was probably built at around that time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/4-heritage/dag-village/dvil-main-menu.html|title=Old Dagenham Village|publisher=Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council|work=Heritage and History|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080104182814/http://www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/4-heritage/dag-village/dvil-main-menu.html|archive-date=4 January 2008}}</ref> In 1854, the [[London, Tilbury and Southend Railway]] was built through the south of Dagenham, near the River Thames. In 1885 a new direct route from Barking to Pitsea, via Upminster, was built with [[Dagenham East tube station|Dagenham]] station opened just north of the village. [[Dagenham Dock railway station|Dagenham Dock]] station opened on the original southern route in 1908. Dagenham was still an undeveloped village, when building of the vast [[Becontree]] estate by the [[London County Council]] began in the early 1920s.<ref>Olechnowicz, A., ''Working-Class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Becontree Estate'' (1997)</ref> The building of the enormous council estate, which also spread into the neighbouring parishes of [[Ilford]] and [[Barking, London|Barking]],<ref name=barking>British History Online – ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42729&strquery=barking The borough of Barking]''. Date accessed: 5 May 2007.</ref> caused a rapid increase in population.<ref>Vision of Britain – [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10238456&c_id=10001043&add=N Dagenham population]</ref> In 1932 the electrified [[District line]] of the [[London Underground]] was extended to [[Upminster]] through Dagenham with stations opened as ''Dagenham'' and ''Heathway'' and today called [[Dagenham East tube station|Dagenham East]] and [[Dagenham Heathway tube station|Dagenham Heathway]].<ref>Rose, D., ''The London Underground: A diagrammatic history'', (1999)</ref> Dagenham East was the location of the [[Dagenham East rail crash]] in 1958.<ref>Railways Archive – [http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Dagenham1958.pdf Report on the collision at Dagenham East – 30.01.58]</ref> Services on the London Tilbury & Southend line at Dagenham East were withdrawn in 1962.