Purfleet
Purfleet-on-Thames is a town in the Thurrock unitary authority, Essex, England. It is bordered by the A13 road to the north and the River Thames to the south and is within the easternmost part of the M25 motorway but just outside the Greater London boundary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mike Shinners, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 12,000 residents
- Description: town in Essex, UK
- Also known as: “Purfleet-on-Thames” and “Purfleet, Essex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Purfleet railway station and St Stephen’s Church.
Purfleet railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Purfleet railway station is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line serving the town of Purfleet, Essex. It is 16 miles 2 chains down the line from London Fenchurch Street and it is situated between Rainham to the west and Grays to the east.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Thurrock and Aveley.
West Thurrock
Suburb
Photo: PJDelaney, Public domain.
West Thurrock is an area the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. It lies 18 miles east of Charing Cross, London. West Thurrock was historically a parish; the parish was abolished for civil purposes in 1936 when West Thurrock became part of Thurrock.
Aveley
Village
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aveley is a village in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. It lies 16 miles east of Charing Cross. It is inside the M25 motorway which encircles London, but lies just outside the Greater London boundary.
Wennington
Village
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wennington is a small village in the London Borough of Havering, in east London. It is situated 14.8 miles east of Charing Cross. Wennington was an ancient parish in the county of Essex that was abolished for civil purposes in 1934. Wennington is situated 2 miles northwest of Purfleet.
Purfleet
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Thurrock, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.48168° or 51° 28′ 54″ northLongitude
0.23955° or 0° 14′ 22″ eastPopulation
12,000Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PFTOpen location code
9F32F6JQ+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 29174784OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Purfleet” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Purfleet-on-Thames”
- Basque: “Purfleet”
- Bulgarian: “Пурфлет”
- Catalan: “Purfleet”
- Cebuano: “Purfleet”
- Chinese: “珀弗利特”
- Chinese: “珀弗利特港”
- Dutch: “Purfleet”
- Finnish: “Purfleet”
- French: “Purfleet”
- Irish: “Purfleet”
- Japanese: “パーフリート”
- Ladin: “Purfleet-on-Thames”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Purfleet”
- Norwegian: “Purfleet”
- Persian: “پورفلیت”
- Polish: “Purfleet”
- Slovenian: “Purfleet”
- Spanish: “Purfleet”
- Swedish: “Purfleet”
- Vietnamese: “Purfleet”
- Welsh: “Purfleet-on-Thames”
- Welsh: “Purfleet”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Purfleet”. Photo: Mike Shinners, CC BY-SA 2.0.