Grays
Grays is the largest town in the borough and unitary authority area of Thurrock, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. The town, which is both a former civil parish and one of Thurrock's traditional Church of England parishes, is located on the north bank of the River Thames.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 36,600 residents
- Description: town in Essex, England
- Also known as: “Grays Thurrock” and “Grays, Essex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grays railway station and Thameside Centre.
Grays railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grays railway station is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line serving the town of Grays, Essex. It is 19 miles 70 chains down the line from London Fenchurch Street via Rainham and is located at the junction where a branch line from Upminster via Ockendon re-joins the route from Rainham.
Thameside Centre
Theater building
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thameside Centre is a theater building.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gravesend and Northfleet.
Gravesend
Photo: Lexicon10uk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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".
Northfleet
Town
Northfleet is a town in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. It is located immediately west of Gravesend, and on the border with the Borough of Dartford. Northfleet is situated 2½ miles south of Grays.
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.
Grays
- Category: locality
- Location: Thurrock, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4781° or 51° 28′ 41″ northLongitude
0.3233° or 0° 19′ 24″ eastPopulation
36,600Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)Open location code
9F32F8HF+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 26684993OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2648182Wikidata ID
Q991532
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Grays” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرايز”
- Asturian: “Grays”
- Basque: “Grays (Essex)”
- Basque: “Grays”
- Bavarian: “Grays”
- Belarusian: “Грэйс”
- Bulgarian: “Грайс”
- Bulgarian: “Грейс”
- Catalan: “Grays”
- Cebuano: “Grays”
- Chinese: “格雷斯”
- Dutch: “Grays Thurrock”
- Dutch: “Grays”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرايز”
- Esperanto: “Grays”
- French: “Grays”
- German: “Grays”
- Hebrew: “גרייס”
- Indonesian: “Grays”
- Irish: “Grays”
- Italian: “Grays”
- Japanese: “グレーズ”
- Japanese: “グレイズ”
- Korean: “그레이스”
- Ladin: “Grays”
- Latin: “Thurroc de Grey”
- Latvian: “Greisa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grays”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grays”
- Norwegian: “Grays”
- Persian: “گریز، انگلستان”
- Polish: “Grays”
- Portuguese: “Grays”
- Romanian: “Grays”
- Russian: “Грейс”
- Scots: “Grays”
- Serbian: “Grays”
- Serbian: “Grejz”
- Serbian: “Грејз”
- South Azerbaijani: “قریز، اینگیلیس”
- Spanish: “Grays”
- Swedish: “Grays”
- Tatar: “Грейс (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Грейс”
- Vietnamese: “Grays”
- Volapük: “Grays”
- Welsh: “Grays”
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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 “Grays”. Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.