Dagenham is a neighborhood within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Greater London, England, located 11.5 miles east of Charing Cross. Known to the Anglo-Saxons as Daeccanham, meaning "Daecca's home", Dagenham was a rural parish of Essex and was mostly undeveloped until 1921, when the London County Council built the Becontree housing estate in Dagenham, leading to the birth of Dagenham as a working-class community. Dagenham became an urban district in 1926, municipal borough in 1938, and part of the London Borough of Barking in 1965. In 1968, Dagenham became famed for a strike by underpaid women at its Ford motor plant, leading to the passage of the Equal Pay Act 1970, which ensured that the female sewing machinists and all other women in Britain would be paid the same as their male coworkers. Dagenham later experienced deindustrialization, as well as immigration. By 2011, Dagenham had a population of 106,247 people, having a narrow white British majority (at least 51% in every district) and a sizeable African minority (at least 15% in every district)
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