West Tilbury, Essex
Historical Description
Tilbury, West, a parish in Essex, near Low Street station on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, and extending south-westward to the Thames at Tilbury Fort. It has a post and money order office under Tilbury; telegraph office, Tilbury. Acreage, 1866; population, 539. A min-oral spring was discovered in 1727. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; commuted value, £556 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and an embattled western tower. There is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. Archbishop Laud was rector.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | West Tilbury St. James | |
Hundred | Chafford | |
Poor Law union | Orsett |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for West Tilbury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tilbury, West (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.
The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.
Maps
Online maps of West Tilbury are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: