18-613: Orsett Rural District was a local government district centred on Orsett in the south Essex part of the Thames Estuary in England. It was a rural district from 1894 to 1936, initially made up of seventeen civil parishes and the successor to the Orsett Rural Sanitary District. Parts of the district were split off to form Tilbury in 1912, Purfleet in 1929 and Billericay in 1934. Thurrock Urban District
36-600: A new urban district, and expansion of Grays Urban District to include Chadwell St Mary, Little Thurrock, West Thurrock and part of Stifford. Following the inquiry, the Chadwell St Mary parish was removed from the rural district in 1912 to form the Tilbury Urban District . In 1929 Purfleet Urban District was formed from the parishes of Aveley, South Ockendon and West Thurrock. In 1934 parts of Corringham, Fobbing and Laindon Hills became part of
54-510: A short time before being released or sent to a larger town for trial. Orsett Heath in the south of the parish was formerly part of an extensive area of heathland that included Terrel's Heath . In 1931 the parish had a population of 1771. On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form Thurrock. The centre of Orsett is aligned on an east–west axis along the High Road, on which is the parish church of St Giles and All Saints along with
72-526: A sub post office. Two public houses have survived in the centre of the village, one being the prize-winning Whitmore Arms , the other the Foxhound , and outside the village centre Orsett has one additional pub – The Kings Arms . The village's primary school has been located since the mid-19th century in School Lane, educating children up to the age of 14 until 1944 and to 11 thereafter. Orsett has
90-708: A variety of listed and interesting buildings, including the almost perfectly preserved Victorian workmen's cottages on Maltings Lane as well as several Grade Two listed timber-framed and thatched houses, and grand houses dating from the reign of Charles II . Apart from some small-scale Council housing in Ridgewell Avenue to the North of the High Street, there was no significant growth in residential development until 1954–55 when new properties were erected in School Lane. These were followed by further developments on
108-571: Is a village, former civil parish and ecclesiastical parish located within Thurrock unitary district in Essex, England, it is north-east of Grays . In 2011 the ward had a population of 6,115. It has historically been a primarily agricultural community situated at the southern edge of the old ice age flood plain traversed by the river Mardyke . Orsett contains a ring and bailey earthwork known locally as Bishop Bonner 's palace; so called as it
126-656: Is located about twenty miles away from London . Nearby settlements include the towns of Tilbury and Grays and the villages of Orsett and Chadwell St Mary . For transport there is the A13 road , the A1089 road and the A1013 road nearby. The nearest railway station is Tilbury Town . At one time, Orsett Heath was probably part of a large swathe of heathland interspaced with woodland. This included Biggin Heath (heathland belonging to
144-495: The manor of Biggin ), Chadwell Heath (heathland belonging to the manor of Chadwell St Mary , not the place near Romford), Mucking Heath, Socketts Heath and Terrel's Heath all of which were on high ground compared to the nearby marsh and had poor sandy soil with underlying gravel and chalk . The Orsett Heath is home to the Willow Garden Day Nursery which boasts an Ofsted rating of Outstanding. It
162-516: The Saxons and contained at least three barrows visible on the aerial photo. On the junction of Pound Lane and High Road is the village lock-up , removed in the mid 19th century but restored in the mid 20th century, the lockup or cage was built in the late 17th or early 18th century. It has barred windows and a plank door with heavy hinges. Before a national system of policing was set up many villages had their own lock-up. Petty criminals were held for
180-573: The animal pound and lock-up opposite Rowley Road. Its former workhouse on Rowley Road was developed into a large modern hospital in the 1960s but has, since the 1980s, been reduced in size once again. Most of the former shops in the High Road, including the Post Office opposite the Church and the blacksmith's in Rowley Road, have closed to be replaced by just one convenience store which contains
198-418: The churches in the High Street. Orsett is home to a cricket club. It has one tennis court and a bowling green. Orsett is part of a ward that also contains Bulphan , Horndon-on-the-Hill and Lower-Dunton . Politically, it has traditionally been Conservative. Orsett Heath Orsett Heath is a village in the unitary authority area of Thurrock , in the ceremonial county of Essex , England. It
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#1732772374146216-490: The former site of the Anglican Rectory (known as Herga Hyll following its sale), off Rectory and Conways Roads and off Rowley Road. During the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, a new housing estate was built on land that belonged to the old container site, and some of the ex-military Orsett Camp site, between Stanford Road and Orsett Golf Course. Most of the former hospital site has been re-developed as housing in
234-520: The last five years. The redevelopment provided 200 houses, despite being within the green belt and avoided the need to provide affordable housing on the site. Opposite the Old Bakery, on the west side of Rectory Road, is Orsett Masonic Hall which is home to Orsett Masonic Lodge. The historic Orsett Hall on Prince Charles's Avenue, the home of the Whitmore family until their estate was sold in
252-455: The late-1960s, was destroyed by fire in May 2007 but was rebuilt during 2008–09. The exterior design is in keeping with the original Georgian building. It was used for a Help for Heroes charity event on 11 April 2010. Orsett House is an early-eighteenth-century house off the High Street and on the western edge of the village. It has a well-equipped village hall at its western end and a centre for
270-501: The new Billericay Urban District . In 1936 the rural district and its constituent parishes were abolished. Most of its former area became part of the new Thurrock Urban District . The greater part of North Ockendon was transferred to Hornchurch Urban District . The former rural district now corresponds to the Thurrock unitary authority area with parts in Basildon , Essex and Havering , Greater London. Orsett Orsett
288-494: The rural sanitary district became Orsett Rural District as part of the Local Government Act 1894 . The district comprised the parishes of: In 1902 the parish council of Chadwell St Mary made a request to be converted into an urban district council. Three schemes were considered at an inquiry in 1912: conversion of Chadwell St Mary parish to an urban district, amalgamation of Chadwell St Mary and Little Thurrock as
306-562: Was the main successor district in 1936. Today it corresponds to the Thurrock unitary authority area with parts in Basildon , Essex and Havering , Greater London. The parishes which formed the rural district in 1894 had been grouped into the Orsett Poor Law Union since 1835 following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 . The area of the poor law union also became a rural sanitary district in 1875. In 1894
324-454: Was the residence of the Bishops of London, including Bishop Edmund Bonner from 1553 to 1559. On the gravel terrace, there is a neolithic causewayed enclosure discovered as a result of crop marks which showed on aerial photographs taken by St Joseph of Cambridge University. It has three concentric ditches with a number of breaks or causeways. The enclosure was used as a burial ground by
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