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Barking Riverside, Barking — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Barking Riverside is a mixed-use development rising on the site of the former Barking Power Station, beside the River Thames in east London.
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Where to stay in Barking Riverside
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
The beds here are new-build flats. Barking Riverside is a development going up on 440 acres of former power station ground, so a visitor looking for a hotel desk works back toward Barking or into central London rather than staying on the site. Capital Karts sits on the site. Anyone with an appointment beside the River Thames on this stretch will find the rooms concentrated nearer Charing Cross.
Few places to stay in Barking Riverside — most visitors book in Barking nearby.
About Barking Riverside
What are the main landmarks in Barking Riverside?
Two names, no more. Capital Karts and St John the Divine, Rivers of Joy Parish are the two entries the record fixes to Barking Riverside, both of them arrivals on ground that carried the Barking Power Station. No museum, no monument.
What a visitor finds instead is a 440 acre brownfield site turning into streets along the River Thames.
What is the history of Barking Riverside?
Barking Power Station stood here first. The land it occupied became a 440 acre brownfield site, and the mixed-use development called Barking Riverside has been rising on it since, inside the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. The site stands east of Charing Cross.
Industrial ground, then housing: that is the whole of the documented past beside this stretch of the River Thames.
Where is Barking Riverside?
Barking Riverside takes in 440 acres of brownfield land beside the River Thames, east of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
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What is the best area to stay in Barking Riverside?
Barking: rooms in the older centre inland from Barking Riverside.
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Updated September 2026