Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Grays Thurrock

Grays Thurrock, market town and par. with ry. sta. (Grays), S. Essex, on river Thames, 19½ miles SE. of London, 1382 ac. and 320 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 5327; P.O., T.O., called Grays, 1 Bank.Market-day, Thursday; its chief trade is brickmaking.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "market town and parish with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Grays Thurrock CP/AP       Essex AncC
Place names: GRAYS     |     GRAYS THURROCK
Place: Grays Thurrock

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