District in East
London, coupled with
Dagenham to form the
London borough of
Barking and Dagenham. It has a station on the
District Line, but little else of real interest
1. Since 'barking' is also a colloquialism for insanity (
barking mad), people may sometime refer to someone being '
Upminster mad' - way beyond Barking.
1:If someone who knows more about Barking wants to correct this flagrant misrepresentation, they'll get C!'ed.