Tilbury
Tilbury is a port town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England on the Thames. The present port was established as separate settlement near East and West Tilbury and Tilbury Fort in the late 19th century, on land that was mainly part of Chadwell St Mary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 16,700 residents
- Description: town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England
- Also known as: “Tilbury Fort”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tilbury Town railway station and Tilbury Fort.
Tilbury Town railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Winfield, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tilbury Town railway station is on a loop line of the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the town of Tilbury, Essex. It is 21 miles 48 chains down the line from London Fenchurch Street via Rainham and it is situated between Grays and East Tilbury.
Tilbury Fort
Fort
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tilbury Fort, also known historically as the Thermitage Bulwark and the West Tilbury Blockhouse, is an artillery fort on the north bank of the River Thames in England.
Port of Tilbury
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The Port of Tilbury is a port located on the River Thames at Tilbury in Essex, England. It serves as the principal port for London, as well as being the main United Kingdom port for handling the importation of paper.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Tilbury and Gravesend.
West Tilbury
Village
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Tilbury is a village and former civil parish in the Thurrock district, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. It is on the top of and on the sides of a 30 metres tall river terrace overlooking the River Thames.
Gravesend
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Gravesend is in the county of Kent in the South East region of England. Gravesend is a historic town on the river Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex. Since the late 14th century passengers have been transported to and from London by water on a "Tilt Boat".
Chadwell St Mary
Village
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chadwell St Mary is an area of the unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex, England. It is one of the traditional parishes in Thurrock and a former civil parish. Chadwell St Mary is situated 1½ miles north of Tilbury.
Tilbury
- Category: locality
- Location: Thurrock, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.46312° or 51° 27′ 47″ northLongitude
0.36439° or 0° 21′ 52″ eastPopulation
16,700Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB TILOpen location code
9F32F977+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 27394336OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Tilbury” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Թիլբերի”
- Asturian: “Tilbury”
- Basque: “Tilbury”
- Breton: “Tilbury”
- Catalan: “Tilbury”
- Cebuano: “Tilbury”
- Chinese: “提伯利”
- Czech: “Tilbury”
- Dutch: “Tilbury”
- French: “Tilbury”
- German: “Tilbury”
- Greek: “Τίλμπουρι”
- Hebrew: “טילברי”
- Icelandic: “Tilbury”
- Irish: “Tilbury”
- Italian: “Tilbury”
- Japanese: “ティルブリー”
- Japanese: “ティルベリー”
- Ladin: “Tilbury”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tilbury”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tilbury”
- Norwegian: “Tilbury”
- Persian: “تیلبوری”
- Polish: “Tilbury”
- Romanian: “Tilbury”
- Russian: “ТИЛБУРИ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tilbury”
- Slovak: “Tilbury”
- South Azerbaijani: “تیلبوری”
- Spanish: “Tilbury”
- Swedish: “Tilbury”
- Volapük: “Tilbury”
- Welsh: “Tilbury”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tilbury”. Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.