Becontree was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Essex, England.

[3] The name is first recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Beuentreu, meaning tree of a man called Beohha.

[2] The original tree, at Becontree Heath, was the location that early hundred meetings took place.

[4] The River Lea formed the western boundary with the Tower division of the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex.

[7] The hundreds of England declined in administrative use because of the rise of various ad hoc boards.