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Ilford is a district of the London Borough of Redbridge in East
London, England. It is a suburban development situated 9.1 miles (14.6 km) east
north-east of Charing Cross and one of ten major metropolitan centres identified
in the London Plan.
Ilford was historically known as Great Ilford to differentiate it from nearby Little
Ilford, in the London Borough of Newham. It is bounded in the west by the North
Circular Road and the River Roding and is contiguous with Barking to the south,
Gants Hill to the north and Seven Kings to the east.
The name is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ilefort and means ford
over the Hyle; an old name for the River Roding that means "trickling stream". Little
Ilford shares the etymology.
Ilford was a village and later ward in the ancient Barking parish, in the Becontree
hundred of Essex. Ilford formed a civil parish from 1888, with a local board created
in 1890, and it became an urban district of Essex from 1894. The council offices
were at first in rooms above a shop in Cranbrook Road and, from 1898, council meetings
were held in a hired schoolroom in Ilford Hall, High Road, but in 1901 a large town
hall, also in the High Road, was completed at a cost of about £30,000. This was
designed by B. Woollard in an ornate Renaissance style; it was enlarged in 1927
and 1933. Successive acts provided the council with increased powers and they used
these to embark on an expansion of public services, providing sewerage, public baths,
an isolation hospital, a fire station, an electricity and tramway undertaking, and
several public parks – including Valentine's Park, opened as Central Park in 1898.
In 1904, the council also took over the responsibilities of the school board.
In 1926, Ilford was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Ilford. In the succeeding
years, Ilford Corporation made several failed attempts to gain county borough status,
which would have given independence from Essex County Council. In 1965 the municipal
borough was abolished and its former area was transferred to Greater London to form
part of the London Borough of Redbridge.
In 1914, the parish of Barking was transferred from the Diocese of St Albans to
a new Diocese of Chelmsford, reflecting the increase in population to the east of
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