Little Ilford

infobox UK place
country = England
map_type = Greater London
region= London
population=
official_name= Little Ilford
latitude= 51.5509
longitude= 0.0549
constituency_westminster= East Ham
post_town= LONDON
postcode_area= E
postcode_district= E12
london_borough= Newham
dial_code= 020
os_grid_reference= TQ435855

Little Ilford is a district of London, England in the London Borough of Newham and the name of a ward in that borough. [Newham London Borough Council - [http://mgov.newham.gov.uk/mgWardMap.asp Councillors in Newham by Ward] ]

Locale

It is located near to Ilford (historically known as Great Ilford)Mills, A., "Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names", (2001)] in the London Borough of Redbridge. They are divided from each other by the North Circular Road and the River Roding, and connected by the A118 road.

There is a large comprehensive school in the area called Little Ilford Secondary School.

Etymology

Little Ilford and Great Ilford have a common etymology. 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".

History

Little Ilford was a civil parish in the West Ham Rural Sanitary District in Essex from 1875 to 1886, when it became part the East Ham Urban Sanitary District, and after 1894 the East Ham urban district. It was abolished as a civil parish in 1900, becoming part of the parish of East Ham and from 1915 the County Borough of East Ham. [Vision of Britain - [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp;jsessionid=1ED10C8AB705B9CBB727660E22225945?u_id=10034449&c_id=10001043 East Ham CB] ( [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10034449&c_id=10001043 historic map] )]

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