| |
| | Purfleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11) |
 | | Purfleet is a hamlet of West Thurrock, and a station on the London, Tilbury and Southend railway, 16 miles from London, 6 miles from Tilbury, 7 from Gravesend, and 4 west from Grays; it is situated on rising ground and near the mouth of the Marditch stream, which here forms a little harbour. |
 | | The manor formrly belonged to the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, and was called Portflete, and there was formerly a ferry over the Thames. |
 | | There is a chapel of ease here, and the 'Cornwall' reformatory ship is moored off the shore, under the superintendance of Captain Morrell R.N. In 1871, the population of Purfleet (excluding the garrison of 323) was 163. |
| essexpub.net /Barracks/Purfleet/Purfleet.htm (177 words) |
|