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West Thurrock is an area, former civil parish and traditional Church of England parish in Thurrock , Essex , England, located 18 miles (28.1 km ) east south-east of Charing Cross , London .
History [ edit ]
West Thurrock was an ancient parish . In 1894 it became part of Orsett Rural District . In 1929 the parish became, with Aveley and South Ockendon, part of Purfleet Urban District . In 1931 the parish had a population of 5,153.[1] On 1 April 1936, the parish and Purfleet Urban District were abolished to form Thurrock Urban District .[2]
Location [ edit ]
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 .
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Industry [ edit ]
Procter & Gamble works
Industry along the Thames includes a Unilever chilled distribution centre for all its chilled food products including Flora , Bertolli , I Can't Believe It's Not Butter , Stork , Peperami and AdeZ. A Procter & Gamble (originally Hedley's) plant manufactures detergents and soaps.[3]
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 400 kV Thames Crossing , the tallest electricity pylons in the UK, remain. Just upstream of the pylons the tunnel of High Speed 1 passes under the Thames.
West Thurrock was formerly the site of a large chalk quarrying and cement making industry. Individual companies included Brooks (which became part of APC ), Gibbs & Co., Wouldham Cement and Tunnel Cement (now part of Hanson Cement ). Today, this industry is represented only by the works of Lafarge below the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge . A new plant for the production of aluminous cement was completed in 2003.[4]
Buildings [ edit ]
Belmont Castle seen from the River Thames circa 1830
West Thurrock is the location of the Lakeside Shopping Centre on the site of a chalk quarry owned by Tunnel Cement.[5]
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[6] but was demolished in 1943 to make way for a chalk quarry.[7]
Origin of the name [ edit ]
Thurrock is a Saxon name meaning "the bottom of a ship".[8] West Thurrock is one of three "Thurrocks", the others being Little Thurrock and Grays Thurrock.
References [ edit ]
^ "West Thurrock" . Victoria County A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8 (1983), pp. 57-74 . Retrieved 17 February 2011 .
^ "New Mill Building for Lafarge - West Thurrock" . Wright Engineering. Retrieved 28 October 2012 .
^ Jonathan Catton, Down Memory Lane
^ 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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