The History of Thurrock: West Thurrock

West Thurrock is an area of Thurrock, Essex, England, located 17.5 miles (28.1 km) east south-east of Charing Cross, London.
It is the location of the Lakeside Shopping Centre.
Industry along the Thames includes a Unilever chilled distribution center for all its chilled food products (Flora, Bertolli, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Stork, Peperami and AdeZ), Procter and Gamble plant manufacturing detergents. The large coal-burning West Thurrock Power Station closed in 1993. The 190 metre tall electricity pylons of 380kV Thames Crossing, the tallest electricity pylons in UK, remain. Just upstream of the pylons the tunnel of High Speed 1 passes under the Thames.
Nearest places:
Aveley
Chafford Hundred
Grays
South Ockendon
Nearest stations:
Chafford Hundred railway station
Grays railway station
Purfleet railway station
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v • d • eCeremonial county of Essex
County town: Chelmsford
Unitary authorities
Southend-on-Sea • Thurrock

Boroughs and districts
Basildon • Braintree • Brentwood • Castle Point • Chelmsford • Colchester • Epping Forest • Harlow • Maldon • Rochford • Tendring • Uttlesford
Towns
Abridge • Basildon • Billericay • Braintree • Brentwood • Brightlingsea • Buckhurst Hill • Burnham-on-Crouch • Canvey Island • Chelmsford • Chigwell • Chipping Ongar • Clacton-on-Sea • Coggeshall • Colchester • Corringham • Dovercourt • Eastwood • Epping • Frinton-on-Sea • Grays • Great Dunmow • Hadleigh • Halstead • Harlow • Harwich • Laindon • Langdon Hills • Loughton • Maldon • Manningtree • Parkeston • Prittlewell • Rayleigh • Rochford • Saffron Walden • Shoeburyness • South Benfleet • Southend-on-Sea • Southminster • South Woodham Ferrers • Stanford-le-Hope • Thaxted • Tilbury • Waltham Abbey • Walton-on-the-Naze • Westcliff-on-Sea • West Mersea • West Thurrock • Wickford • Witham • WivenhoeSee also: List of civil parishes in Essex
Rivers
Blackwater • Brain • Chelmer • Ching • Cobbins Brook • Colne • Crouch • River Lee Flood Relief Channel • Prittle Brook • Roach • Roding • Stort • Stour • Stour Brook • Thames