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Coordinates: 51°29′01″N 0°16′55″E / 51.4836°N 0.2820°E
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 St Clements Church |
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 West Thurrock
West Thurrock shown within Essex |
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| Population | 7,795 (2001 Census) |
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| OS grid reference | TQ585785 |
| Unitary authority | Thurrock |
| Ceremonial county | Essex |
| Region | East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GRAYS |
| Postcode district | RM20 |
| Dialling code | 01708 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
| UK Parliament | Thurrock |
| List of places: UK • England • Essex | |
West Thurrock is a traditional Church of England parish and town in Thurrock, Essex, England, located 17.5 miles (28.1 km) east south-east of Charing Cross, London.
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[edit] Location
West Thurrock is part of the unitary authority of Thurrock located on the north bank of the River Thames about 17 miles (27 km) from Charing Cross, London.
Nearest places:
Nearest stations:
[edit] Industry
Industry along the Thames includes a Unilever chilled distribution centre for all its chilled food products (Flora, Bertolli, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Stork, Peperami and AdeZ) and a Procter and Gamble (originally Hedley's) plant manufacturing detergents and soaps.[1] The large coal-burning West Thurrock Power Station closed in 1993, and was replaced by a plant making industrial chemicals, particularly the raw materials for detergent manufacture. The 190 metre tall electricity pylons of 380kV Thames Crossing, the tallest electricity pylons in UK, remain. Just upstream of the pylons the tunnel of High Speed 1 passes under the Thames.
[edit] Buildings
West Thurrock is the location of the Lakeside Shopping Centre.
The parish church (now redundant) was used for the funeral in the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral".
Belmont Castle, England, a neo-Gothic mansion, was built in West Thurrock in 1795[2] but was demolished in 1943 to make way for a chalk quarry.[3]
[edit] Origin of the name
Thurrock is a Saxon name meaning "the bottom of a ship".[4] West Thurrock is one of three "Thurrocks", the others being Little Thurrock and Grays Thurrock.
[edit] References
- ^ "West Thurrock", Victoria County A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8 (1983), pp. 57-74., http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63841, retrieved 17 Feb 2011
- ^ Hughson, David, London; being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood: to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation, Volume 6, J. Stratford, 1809, p. 210
- ^ Carney, T. J., "A Picturesque Object", the story of Belmont Castle, Grays, originally published in Panorama, No. 28, Thurrock Local History Society, 1986
- ^ PH Reaney, The Place-Names of Essex, (CUP, 1969)
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