Beckton (gbr)

Beckton

Beckton ranks 16,019th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kaminokawa, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, and Ōarai, Ibaraki. The most famous people from Beckton are Jermain Defoe, and Aaron Tshibola. Beckton has been the birth place of many soccer players. Beckton is located in United Kingdom.

Beckton is a suburb in East London, England, located eight miles east of Charing Cross and part of the London Borough of Newham. Adjacent to the River Thames, the area consisted of unpopulated marshland known as the East Ham Levels in the parishes of Barking, East Ham, West Ham and Woolwich. The development of major industrial infrastructure in the 19th century to support the growing metropolis of London caused an increase in population with housing built in the area for workers of the Beckton Gas Works and Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. The area has a convoluted local government history and has formed part of Greater London since 1965. Between 1981 and 1995 it was within the London Docklands Development Corporation area, which caused the population to increase as new homes were built and the Docklands Light Railway was constructed. Read more on Wikipedia