Thurrock
Thurrock is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames immediately east of London and has over 18 miles of riverfront including the Port of Tilbury, the principal port for London.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: unitary authority area in England with 167,000 residents
- Description: unitary authority area with borough status in Essex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Thurrock (parish)” and “Thurrock (unparished area)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stanford-le-Hope railway station and East Tilbury railway station.
Stanford-le-Hope railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanford-le-Hope railway station is on a loop line of the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the town of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. It is 27 miles 13 chains down the line from London Fenchurch Street via Rainham and it is situated between East Tilbury and Pitsea.
East Tilbury railway station
Railway station
East Tilbury railway station is on a loop line of the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the village of East Tilbury, Essex. It is 25 miles 7 chains down the line from London Fenchurch Street via Rainham and it is situated between Tilbury Town and Stanford-le-Hope.
Stanford Warren
Nature reserve
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanford Warren is a 16.6-hectare nature reserve south of Stanford-le-Hope in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. This former gravel quarry is bisected by the River Hassenbrook.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stanford and Chadwell St Mary.
Stanford
Town
Photo: John Winfield, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanford-le-Hope is a town, former civil parish and Church of England parish in the unitary authority area of Thurrock, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England.
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 2½ miles southwest of Thurrock.
Tilbury
Town
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Tilbury is situated 3½ miles southwest of Thurrock.
Thurrock
- Categories: borough in the United Kingdom, unparished area, and civil parish
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Thurrock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Thurrock” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ثوروك”
- Bavarian: “Thurrock”
- Belarusian: “Тарак”
- Bengali: “থুররক”
- Bengali: “থ্যুরর্ক”
- Catalan: “Thurrock”
- Cebuano: “Borough of Thurrock”
- Chinese: “Thurrock”
- Chinese: “土洛克”
- Chinese: “瑟罗克”
- Chinese: “瑟羅克”
- Dutch: “Thurrock”
- Esperanto: “Thurrock”
- French: “Thurrock”
- German: “GB-THR”
- German: “Thurrock”
- Greek: “Θάροκ”
- Gujarati: “થુરોક”
- Hungarian: “Thurrock”
- Irish: “Thurrock”
- Italian: “Thurrock”
- Japanese: “サーロック”
- Kannada: “ಥುರಾಕ್”
- Korean: “서럭”
- Ladin: “Thurrock”
- Latvian: “Taroka”
- Lithuanian: “Turokas”
- Luxembourgish: “Thurrock”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thurrock”
- Northern Frisian: “Thurrock”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thurrock”
- Norwegian: “Thurrock”
- Persian: “ثارک (انگلستان)”
- Persian: “ثارک”
- Polish: “Thurrock”
- Portuguese: “Thurrock”
- Romanian: “Thurrock”
- Russian: “Таррок”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Thurrock”
- Slovenian: “Thurrock”
- Spanish: “Thurrock”
- Swedish: “Thurrock”
- Tamil: “துரராக்”
- Telugu: “తురాక్”
- Telugu: “తుర్రోక్,”
- Ukrainian: “Таррек”
- Urdu: “تھاراک”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Thurrock”
- Yue Chinese: “土洛克”
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