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Little Thurrock

Little Thurrock is a suburb of Grays in Essex, England.

Little Thurrock
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The place

Little Thurrock is a suburb of Grays in Essex, England. It lies to the north-east of the town centre. Little Thurrock was historically a separate village and parish. The parish was abolished for civil purposes in 1936 on the creation of Thurrock Urban District, which was reformed to become the borough of Thurrock in 1974. Little Thurrock is now classed as part of the Grays built up area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Little Thurrock

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lakeside Shopping Centre

    Lakeside Shopping Centre is a large out-of-town shopping centre located in West Thurrock, Essex just beyond the eastern boundary of Greater London. It was constructed on the site of a former chalk quarry.

    3.9 km · shopping mall in Essex, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary

    The Church of St Mary is a Church of England parish church in Chadwell St Mary, Thurrock, Essex. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    2.3 km · historic church in Chadwell St Mary, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hangman's Wood and Deneholes

    Hangman's Wood and Deneholes is a 3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Little Thurrock in Essex. The deneholes, which were created by medieval chalk mining, are a scheduled monument.

    600 m · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Grays Thurrock Chalk Pit

    Grays Thurrock Chalk Pit is a 17.3-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Grays in Essex. It is part of Chafford Gorges Nature Park, which is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

    1.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Grays in Essex · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Clement's Church

    St Clement's Church is a Grade I listed building in West Thurrock, Essex, England. It is the church for one of the traditional parishes in Thurrock.

    3.9 km · church in West Thurrock, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Giles & All Saints Church, Orsett

    St Giles & All Saints Church is a Church of England parish church in Orsett, Essex, England, which is of medieval origin. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.1 km · church in Orsett, Thurrock, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Thurrock and Basildon College

    Thurrock and Basildon College was a further education college in Grays, Essex, England and Basildon, Essex, England. It was formed by the merger of Thurrock Technical College and Basildon College.

    1.3 km · further education college in Grays, Essex, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ealing Broadway Centre

    The Ealing Broadway Centre, currently branded as simply Ealing Broadway, is a shopping centre in Ealing, west London. Located on The Broadway close by Ealing Broadway station, the centre consists of 85 units both indoor and a courtyard part outdoor.

    3.4 km · shopping mall in London · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Thurrock Town Hall

    Thurrock Town Hall is a newest part of municipal complex in New Road in Grays, Essex, a town in England. The complex accommodates the offices and meeting place of Thurrock Council.

    2 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Orsett Hall

    Orsett Hall was a 17th-century Grade II listed building in Orsett, Essex. It was set in 12 acres of parkland and was the centre of the Orsett Hall agricultural estate.

    2.9 km · Country house (now hotel) in Essex. UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Little Thurrock

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 44 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 53 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 55 km
Stations
Port of Tilbury, 3.5 km · Tilbury Town railway station, 3.4 km · Grays railway station, 2.1 km · Chafford Hundred railway station, 3.6 km
  • London → Little Thurrock
    32 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £3.5–4.5
  • London, Essex → Little Thurrock
    32 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £3.5–4.5
  • Luton, Luton → Little Thurrock
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–11
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Little Thurrock

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Little Thurrock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    145 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    350 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    372 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    580 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    616 km

If you know how people move in Little Thurrock – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Little Thurrock

Little Thurrock is 31 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.