North Ockendon is an outlying settlement of northeast London, England and part of the London Borough of Havering. It is located 18 miles (29 km) east northeast of Charing Cross and consists of a dispersed settlement within the Metropolitan Green Belt. It was historically an ancient parish in the county of Essex, that was abolished for civil purposes in 1936.
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