10 Facts About Thurrock

Thurrock is a unitary authority area with borough status and unparished area in the English ceremonial county of Essex.

Thurrock includes most of the borough while South Basildon and East Thurrock includes some wards in the east of the borough.

Thurrock in Bloom is a voluntary group that works in partnership with Thurrock Council and co-sponsors such as Sandown Nursery and Elm Horticulture to promote floral displays.

The Thurrock initiative includes an annual competition and sponsorship of roundabouts.

Thurrock has numerous archaeological sites including the major excavation at Mucking.

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The name "Thurrock" is a Saxon name meaning "the bottom of a ship".

Thurrock includes the Bata village, built for workers of the shoe company in 1933.

Thurrock's body was gibbeted — left to hang in an iron cage over the Thames at Tilbury Point — as a warning to future would-be pirates for twenty years.

St Clement's Church and street scenes at West Thurrock were used in the making of the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Thurrock has 55 schools; 39 of them are primary schools, 13 are secondary, two are special and one is alternative.