LITTLE (or EAST) THURROCK
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933
LITTLE (or EAST) THURROCK is a small parish, near the banks of the Thames, 1 mile east rom Grays station on the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 2 miles north-west from Tilbury, 4 south-south-east from Orsett, 12 south-east from Romford and 22 from London, in the South Eastern division of the county, Barstable hundred, Orsett rural district and petty sessional division, Grays county court district and in Orsett and Grays rural deanery, West Ham archdeaconry and diocese of Chelmsford. In 1894 the parish was drained and connected with the sewage works at Grays. The church of St. Mary is a small building of flint and stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave and a western tower: it was restored in 1878-9, when a singular arch was discovered on the south side of the nave, on which was discovered an ancient and curious wall painting; a new organ chamber was erected on 1909 at a cost of £115, and a new organ in 1911 at a cost of £250: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1672. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £320, with residence an 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Chelmsford, and held since 1929 by the Rev. Frederick Clarke Bourne L. Th. of Durham University. St. John's, Little Thurrock, is a conventional district. The church, which was built in 1933, is in Victoria avenue, and the district includes the Mission hall in College road; the Rev. Jarvis Coleridge Nunns M.A. is the curate in charge. In Dock road is a Methodist chapel, erected in 1876, and at Socketts Heath is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1933. In the parish are some remarkable caverns in the chalk, known as "Cunobelin's Gold Mines," and sometimes called "Dane-holes." In 1898 the Orsett Rural District Council erected an Isolation Hospital, at a cost of £5,000, for 50 patients. In 1901, upon the formation of the Orsett Joint Hospital Board for the whole of the parishes in Orsett Rural District, the building was purchased by that board. Champion Branfill Russell esq. J.P. Col. Francis H. D. C.. Whitmore C.G.M., D.S.O. T.D., D.L., J. P. and the Port of London Authority are the principal landowners. The soil is Clayey; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans and peas. The area is 1,337 acres of land, 12 of inland and 187 of tidal water and 20 of foreshore; the population in 1931 was 4,428 in the civil, and of the ecclesiastical parish in 1921, 2,891
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