Little Ilford

Little Ilford is a district of London, England in the London Borough of Newham and the name of a ward in that borough. It is located near to Ilford (historically known as Great Ilford) in the London Borough of Redbridge. They are divided from each other by the North Circular Road and the River Roding, and connected by the A118 road. There is a large comprehensive school in the area called Little Ilford School. Little Ilford and Great Ilford have a common etymology. The name is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ilefort and means ford over the Hyle; an old name for the River Roding that means "trickling stream". Little Ilford was a civil parish in the West Ham Rural Sanitary District in Essex from 1875 to 1886, when it became...