Little Heath Green is a triangular site, a remnant of the village green here, which dates back at least to the C14th. The pattern of roads today follows the original settlement pattern. Until 1909 there was a village pond on the Green, which is now surrounded by relatively recent trees. The houses around the green are generally 2-storey domestic buildings ranging from 200 years old to recent date. A timber signpost that was locally listed has since disappeared.
The name is recorded in 1369 as Lytel Ylleford heth, meaning 'little Ilford heath'. It had become shortened to Litelheth by 1456. It is formed from the Middle English words litel and hethe.^[1]

This is named after one of Chadwell Heath’s best-known residents and one of the longest-living survivors of the Titanic disaster. The ill-fated ship sank in April 1912, but Eva Hart lived to tell the tale. She died in 1996, aged 91. The pub was once the town’s police station, the original of which was built in 1850, on the site of the old stocks. It was replaced, in 1891–92, by the current building.

In 1895 he was appointed Architect and Surveyor to the department of the Metropolitan Police. He subsequently designed some 150 police buildings in the London Metropolitan area. With Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) worked on extensions toNew Scotland Yard in London from 1904 to 1906.  

This Victorian style park is the oldest park in the borough and the first parts of it dates from 1830, when 4 acres of the ancient Chadwell Heath were granted by the Crown to the old Parish Council as allotments for the poor; then, a further 3 acres were set aside for public use in 1866 as part of the compensation to the parish when Chadwell Heath was enclosed. It covers 15 hectares (35 acres).
The main entrance is from Japan Road, leading to Chadwell Heath High Road. Other entrances lead to Alexandra Road / West Road, Chadville Gardens, and to Park Lane.

By the 1800’s Chadwell Heath had grown into a large village and, in 1877, a group of local clergy and gentry met to discuss the possibilities of building a church to serve the growing community. Richard Payze, a local businessman, generously donated the land for the church building. Frederick Chancellor, a church architect, was given the task of drawing the plans for the church building (he actually produced five different plans) before the final choice was made. It took seven years to raise the £3,000 needed to begin the work.

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The foundation stone was laid on 28th May 1884, but it was nearly two years later, on 2nd March 1886 (Saint Chad’s Day), when the building was first able to be used for Sunday services. Saint Chad’s was opened as a daughter church to Dagenham Parish church and it would be another nine years before Saint Chad’s/Chadwell Heath was a parish in its own right. This took place on 25th June 1895 when the Bishop of Colchester dedicated the church building.

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The clock tower was built to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1897) and was a gift of T.H. Sale of the Bengal Engineers. It was dedicated on 2nd August 1898 by the Bishop of Saint Albans.

Alongside WHALEBONE LANE, towards MARKS GATE

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Marks (or Mark's Hall) was a manor house located near Marks Gate . The site of the former manor house was transferred from the London Borough of Havering to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham on 1 April 1994.

The manor lay partly in the parish of Dagenham and partly in the Liberty of Havering. The boundary between Dagenham and Havering was altered to bring the manor house within the Liberty of Havering that was established in 1465

The house standing on what is now WARREN HALL FARM, about two miles west of Romford.

The name Marks (historically Markes) is believed to have been derived from the de Merk family who built the original manor in the 14th century. Themanor house was demolished in 1808. 
While originally constructed by the de Merk family the manor had changed hands and in the middle of the 15th century was held by Thomas Urswick, Recorder of London. In 1488, by the HETON family.  Then, by the HALES family, who sold the manor in 1557 to James Bacon and in 1584 it was claimed by Lady Anne Bacon and granted by her to her son Francis Bacon. However a survey made for him soon after this describes the building as "a great house in decay" and there does not seem to be any evidence that Francis Bacon ever resided at Marks, so that by 1589 George Hervey had been installed as tenant, going on to purchase the manor outright in 1596 for £1500, bequeathing it to his son Sir Gawyn Hervie, Knight. Gawen Hervey left the manor to his nephew Carew Hervey Mildmay, and as he was a Parliamentary commander in the Civil War Marks was attacked in June 1648 by Royalists on their way to Chelmsford.

The manor then passed down the Mildmay family for at least three generations, and was held by Carew Hervey Mildmay when he was High Sheriff of Essex in 1712, being the great-grandson of the original Carew Mildmay. On his death he left his property, including Marks, to his daughter Anne, but when she died a spinster the property was inherited by Sir Henry St John-Mildmay.

the windmill associated with the Manor, a smock mill known as Drake's Mill and one of the tallest in Essex, was not demolished until 1920

Part of the moat survives, as does a seventeenth century brick barn.

Nearby were two other hamlets, now lost. Roselane Gate had its own entrance to the forest, at the northern end of Rose Lane near the Harrow public house. Padnall Corner was virtually wiped out when the Eastern Avenue was constructed. It was located at the bend in Padnall Road and Padnall Hall stood to its west.

A popular local leisure facility, with tenpin bowling, a fitness centre, bars and a restaurant.

The film was shot mainly in and around the abandoned Heygate Estate in Walworth, London.^[5][6] At the time of filming, it was due to be demolished,^[7] which did not happen until early 2014.^[8] The subway scenes were shot at Marks Gate, London.^[9]