Becontree
Proper noun
Meaning
Becontree
A suburban area in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4886).
Examples
The Becontree estate was built by the Corporation of London to house poor residents of London's East End on what was previously a rural area of Essex, and Peter Wright wrote that most of the residents identified as cockneys rather than as Essex folk.