A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
THURROCK (West), a parish in Orsett district, Essex; on the Thames, 1¼ mile W by S of Grays r .station. It includes Purfleet; and it has a post-office under Romford. Acres, 3,607; of which 700 are water. Real property, £6,131. Pop. in 1851, 835; in 1861, 1,039. Houses, 122. The increase of pop. arose partly from augmentation of the Ordnance establishment at Purfleet. The property is not much divided. Much of the land is marsh. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £306.* Patron, S. Whitbread, Esq. The church is Saxon or Early Norman.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | West Thurrock AP/CP Orsett RegD/PLU Essex AncC |
| Place names: | THURROCK | THURROCK WEST | WEST THURROCK |
| Place: | West Thurrock |
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