Beckton

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Beckton is an almost cosy district of East London, which retains a pleasant, community feel despite having been blessed with an abundance of good quality modern housing. The transport links through the Docklands Light Railway are superb, and the amenities excellent. Beckton is home to several large supermarkets and shopping centres, making it a haven for enthusiastic consumers.

The district continues to grow – a sure sign of a healthy economy – and is currently expanding to the south and east, rendering it an essential facet of the Thames Gateway Project. This project aims to bring great enhancements and improvements to the area.

Beckton is also abundant in history, as testified to by some truly lovely Victorian architecture in places like Windsor Terrace. It was to Beckton that many thousands of people came in the days of the British Empire in order to be shipped out to far flung locations. Indeed, Beckton’s role as the last patch of British soil walked on by many departing soldiers and so forth is mentioned in Rudyard Kipling’s much admired book The Light That Failed.