The area north of the Thames gradually expanded to include East Ham, Stratford, West Ham and Plaistow as more land was built upon.

The parish was divided into three wards: Church-street, Stratford-Langthorne, and Plaistow ; with the village of West Ham corresponding to the Church-street ward.

", first published in 1977, author Cyril M Harris states that c1200 Plaistow was recorded as " Plagestoue ", derived from the Old English PLEG, meaning sports or playing, and STOWE ( place ).

In the 1870s Plaistow was described by John Marius Wilson in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales as a village, a chapelry and a ward in the Parish of West Ham in Essex.

West Ham and Plaistow New Deal for Communities (" NDC "), part of a government programme designed to tackle social exclusion, community safety, unemployment and low educational attainment in areas of severe need throughout the country, was awarded £ 54. 6M to bring about improvements to the local area over a 10 year period to 2010, with the intention of improving the quality of life and providing more opportunities for residents in the West Ham and Plaistow area.

Singer and entertainer Joe Brown was born in Lincolnshire but lived in Plaistow from the age of 2.

Honor Blackman, notable for her appearances in the James Bond film Goldfinger and the TV series The Avengers, was born in Plaistow, as were actor Jimmy Akingbola and comedienne, actor, and playwright Andi Osho.

England international footballers Sol Campbell, Tony Cottee, Martin Peters and Rob Lee were born in Plaistow, as was Arsenal physiotherapist Colin Lewin.

Essex was born in Plaistow, which was at that time in Essex ( hence his stage name ), but now falls within the borders of Greater London .< ref >

His family moved to London when he was two and ran the Sultan public house in Grange Road, Plaistow.

Opened in 1855 on a previously uninhabited area of the Plaistow Marshes, it was the first of the Royal Docks and the first London dock to be designed specifically to accommodate large steam ships.

Winstone moved via Plaistow to Enfield when he was seven, and grew up on a council estate just off the A10 road.

At the 1945 general election, he was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for Plaistow, east London.

Born William Hicks, he was the eldest of four sons and two daughters of Henry Hicks, of Plaistow Hall, Kent, and his wife Harriett, daughter of William Watts.

Ronnie Lane of the Small Faces was born in Plaistow but spent his childhood and early adulthood in Forest Gate, living at 385 Romford Road.

A second laboratory was opened for the development of new chemicals, a few miles away in Plaistow.

Instead of the car being scrapped one end of Q38 Stock trailer 013167 ( which had been badly damaged when a bomb hit Plaistow station ) was used to rebuild 14233.

Norman Newell, OBE ( 25 January 1919 — 1 December 2004 ) was born in Plaistow, Essex ( now Greater London ), and was a successful British record producer in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as co-writer of many notable songs.

The MP throughout that period was David Amess, who himself originated from east London ( Plaistow ), and now holds the safer seat of Southend West.

After playing at White Hart Field, Widmore Road and Plaistow Cricket Ground, Bromley moved to Hayes Lane: some from their present ground – which was purchased in 1938.

" Factory after factory was erected on the marshy wastes of Stratford and Plaistow, and it only required the construction at Canning Town of the Victoria and Albert Docks to make the once desolate parish of West Ham a manufacturing and commercial centre of the first importance and to bring upon it a teeming and an industrious population.

Plaistow is mentioned in Daniel Defoe's 1724 work, " Tour of the Eastern Counties " ( part of his “ A tour thro ’ the whole island of Great Britain ”), as a town in which there had been much new building as well as repairs to existing houses since the Revolution.

Plaistow is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.

It is the only town outside the United Kingdom with the name Plaistow.

In 1776 the western part of Plaistow became a separate town, Atkinson.

The southern terminus is at the Massachusetts state line in the town of Plaistow, where NH 108 continues south as Massachusetts Route 108 in the city of Haverhill.

It passes through the town of Plaistow before crossing through Newton into East Kingston and crossing NH 107A.

The southern terminus of NH 121 is at the Massachusetts state line in Plaistow, where the road, named Atkinson Depot Road, continues into the town of Haverhill as an unnumbered local road.

South of Bellingham, the small river Spring Brook joins the Ravensbourne after flowing only about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) from the east through Plaistow and Downham ; it crosses the borough boundary from Bromley to Lewisham and narrow parkland named Shaftesbury Park Recreation Ground and Downham Playing Fields follow it along its short course.

Plaistow Underground station is on the London Underground District Line and Hammersmith and City Line ( which share the same tracks between Aldgate East and Barking ), in London Travelcard zone 3.

Sundridge Park station is located between Bromley and Grove Park, on Plaistow Lane, Bromley, on the northern edge of the borough of Bromley.

NH 108 begins at the border between Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Plaistow, New Hampshire, as a continuation of Massachusetts Route 108, a very short connector to Massachusetts Route 110.

Route 125 intersects with Interstate 495 in Massachusetts two miles south of Plaistow.

A proposal has been made to extend existing MBTA commuter rail service from Boston through Haverhill, Massachusetts into Plaistow, and is being studied.

The southern terminus of NH 121A is at the Massachusetts state line in Plaistow, where the road continues for approximately 87 yards ( 80 m ) into Massachusetts before ending at Massachusetts Route 125, a continuation of New Hampshire Route 125 in Haverhill.

The southern terminus is in Plaistow at the Massachusetts state line, where the road continues southward as MA Route 125.

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The area has been one of the most deprived in the country and as part of the New Deal for Communities programme it forms, with neighbouring Plaistow, a regeneration area.

Plaistow is referenced in the song " Plaistow Patricia " on the 1977 album New Boots and Panties !!

Haverhill is bordered by Merrimac to the northeast, West Newbury and Groveland to the east, Boxford and a small portion of North Andover to the south, Methuen to the southwest, and Salem, Atkinson and Plaistow, New Hampshire, to the north.

Merrimac is roughly diamond-shaped, and is bordered by Amesbury and Lake Attitash to the northeast, West Newbury to the southeast, Haverhill to the southwest, Newton, New Hampshire, to the north and northwest, South Hampton, New Hampshire, to the far northeast, and Plaistow, New Hampshire, on the western corner.

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In New England, the New England Academy of 45s holds occasional tournaments in Plaistow, New Hampshire.

** The Rockingham News of Plaistow, New Hampshire

Others included Bus and Bodies of Plaistow, New Hampshire, Town & Country Transportation of Warren, Rhode Island, Rohrer of Duncannon, Pennsylvania, and School Bus Services of Shawnee Mission, Kansas.

* Timberlane Regional High School, Plaistow, New Hampshire

* Timberlane Regional Middle School, Plaistow, New Hampshire

The constituency now comprises ten wards: Canning Town North, Canning Town South, Custom House, Forest Gate North, Forest Gate South, Green Street West, Plaistow North, Plaistow South, Stratford & New Town and West Ham.

In 1761, he removed to Plaistow, New Hampshire and began the practice of medicine.