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33-408: The town part of Kvítkovice is an administrative part of Otrokovice. The town's name is derived from the word otrok , meaning "child" or "juvenile" in old Czech (instead of "slave" in modern Czech). There are several theories as how the name originated. Otrokovice may have been owned by an immature owner in the distant past, or the settlement could be established as property for some of the children of

66-555: A greyhound racing track. The racing was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the National Greyhound Racing Club ) and was known as a flapping track, which was the nickname given to independent tracks. The racing is believed to have been operational in the 1930s and lasted until 1947, when a betting licence had been granted. A later venue called the Tilbury Stadium on land at

99-465: A forerunner of the Thames sailing barge . The curve and narrowness of the river here made it a suitable place to construct forts for the defence of London against foreign invaders. The first permanent fort at Tilbury was a D-shaped blockhouse built in 1539 by Henry VIII and initially called the "Thermitage Bulwark", because it was on the site of a hermitage dissolved in 1536. The Tilbury blockhouse

132-680: A manufacturing facility in Otrokovice and is the largest employer with headquarters in the Zlín Region. This tyre producer was founded in 1948 by merger of three tyre manufacturers. The company became part of the German Continental AG conglomerate in 1993. Another important manufacturing sites are the large TOMA Industrial Zone where various companies of various industries are located, and Zlin Aircraft that operates from

165-503: A new hospital which was named the Passmore Edwards District Cottage Hospital . In 1969 Orsett Hospital took over healthcare provision in the area. Local radio station Gateway 97.8, is a community based radio station. The Thurrock Gazette is the town's local weekly newspaper. Tilbury has a non-League football club Tilbury F.C. who play at Chadfields. Chadfields had previously been

198-526: Is twinned with: Zl%C3%ADn Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.236 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 947561763 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:28:25 GMT Tilbury Tilbury is a port town in the borough of Thurrock , Essex , England. The present town

231-670: Is also a Convent of Mercy. There is, in addition, a synagogue in Dock Road. The educational institutions in Tilbury include primary education, which are Lansdowne Primary School, St Mary's RC Primary School and Tilbury Manor Primary School renamed Tilbury Pioneer Academy when the school was taken over by the Gateway Learning Community, a local collective of several schools in the local area. The last serve Infant and Nursery, as well as Junior children. Lying just outside

264-479: Is closely connected with its geographical location (see below). Its counterpart on the south bank of the River Thames , Gravesend , has long been an important communications link, and it was there that a cross-river ferry (see below) was connected, mainly due to the narrowness of the river at this point. In addition, Gravesend and Northfleet (also on the south shore) both became vitally important to shipping on

297-530: Is documented in the movie Farming. In the 2014 BBC series The Honourable Woman , the title character Nessa Stein is made Baroness of Tilbury in the first episode. Tilbury and its environs have been used in some television episodes. Tilbury Fort was used as a location for Sharpe's Regiment , starring Sean Bean . Until 1896 Tilbury had no hospital. In 1894 the Philanthropist John Passmore Edwards , M.P. agreed to fund

330-682: Is higher ground, where lie the villages of Chadwell St Mary, West and East Tilbury . The town lies to the north of the London-Southend railway line. Tilbury is located east of the capital of England, London The major landmarks are the docks, the cruise-ship landing stage, and the Tilbury Power Station . There are two churches in Tilbury: St John's (Church of England) and Our Lady Star of the Sea (Roman Catholic); there

363-740: Is the main UK port for importing paper, including newsprint . The one-time passenger landing stage was reopened by the Port of Tilbury group as the London Cruise Terminal, though it is no longer served by the railway. Until the introduction of standardised containers, the majority of the town's inhabitants were employed in the docks. The resulting loss of jobs has never been made up. So Tilbury today has high unemployment, and education and employment prospects are widely perceived as poor. Thurrock Council, together with Kent County Council, subsidises

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396-586: Is the southernmost point in Essex. The name of the present town of Tilbury is derived (by way of the port) from the nearby settlements of East and West Tilbury . The name of these settlements is derived from the Saxon burgh , "fortified place", either belonging to Tila, or perhaps at a lowland place. The 8th century spelling ( Bede ) was "Tilaburg", and the spelling in Domesday was "Tilberia". Tilbury's history

429-546: The Mojena Brook. The Morava forms the western border of the municipal territory. The first written mention of Otrokovice is in a deed of bishop Jindřich Zdík from 1141. Until 1570, it was a part of the Malenovice estate . Between 1570 and 1649, it was a separate estate and a fortress, which served as the manor house, was built. From 1649, Otrokovice estate was merged with Napajedla estate and remained its part until

462-493: The Thames: the former as the first port of call for foreign shipping bound for London, and the latter as a naval dockyard. There is archaeological evidence of Roman occupation. At the time, sea-levels had dropped, making the marshes habitable. There may well have been a Roman settlement on the site of what is now Tilbury Docks. In the 12th century the river, which had hitherto consisted of difficult channels with uncharted shoals ,

495-521: The abolishment of manorialism in 1848. The manor house was demolished before 1767. A railway through Otrokovice was buil in 1841. A railway station was not established until 1882. Important for the development of Otrokovice was the construction of a new railway Otrokovice–Zlín– Vizovice in 1899. The fastest development of Otrokovice occurred in the 1930s, after Tomáš Baťa bought land here and had built auxiliary plants and aircraft production of his Bata company . A modern industrial district called Baťov

528-547: The airfield next to the Barum factory. The D55 motorway runs through the town. Otrokovice is a major railway junction of the Zlín Region. Otrokovice railway station lies on the railway of national importance and has connection to main Czech cities. It is located on the lines Prague – Luhačovice and Brno – Olomouc (further continuing to Poland, Slovakia and Hungary). Otrokovice has a regular bus service, linking main areas of

561-528: The ferry between Tilbury and Gravesend, which was operated by Lower Thames & Medway Passenger Boat Company and then by Jetstream Tours. Tilbury Town railway station is on the c2c ( London, Tilbury and Southend line ), providing services to London Fenchurch Street and Southend. Tilbury Riverside railway station was closed on 29 November 1992, although the railway still serves the nearby container depot. Local buses are operated by Ensignbus National Cycle Route 13 from London to Norfolk passes through

594-402: The formation of Tilbury District Council (see below) the town was in a poor state, as it largely remained until 1918, when government funds were available to better the situation. Tilbury–Gravesend Ferry has operated from very early times. A sketch-map of 1571 shows evidence of two jetties, the one on the north bank leading to a northward road crossing the marsh. There are also houses marked on

627-401: The marsh itself, which became important for sheep grazing; and there is some evidence to suggest that the ferry was used for the cross-river transport of animals and wool. Although the 17th century drawing might suggest a boat too small for large consignments, the long-established Gravesend market encouraged such traffic, and a contemporary account suggests that one of the boats used was a hoy ,

660-651: The nearby village of West Tilbury (see Speech to the Troops at Tilbury ). In 1852 an Act of Parliament had authorised the building of the London Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR), with a short spur to take advantage of the ferry over the Thames; a pier nearby was constructed for the steamboat traffic. The station was originally named Tilbury Fort and opened in 1854. The station was renamed Tilbury Riverside railway station in 1936. A few houses were built for

693-539: The owner of the surrounding lands. Otrokovice is located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of Zlín . The eastern part of the municipal territory lies in the Vizovice Highlands and the western part liesin the southern tip of the Upper Morava Valley . The highest point is at 325 m (1,066 ft) above sea level. The town lies at the confluence of the rivers Morava and Dřevnice , and

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726-465: The railway workers, but it was not until the construction of Tilbury Docks (see below) that there was any settlement worthy of a name. Whilst the docks were being built, the thousands of workers were either provided with temporary accommodation or had to commute from surrounding villages and towns. As a result of overcrowding, more permanent housing was built once the docks were completed, including tenement blocks; but these were poorly constructed, and until

759-405: The southern part and Tilbury St Chad's in the north. As of May 2016 there are 3 Labour and 1 UKIP councillors. The Member of Parliament for Thurrock is Jackie Doyle-Price . Tilbury is on the north bank of the River Thames , where the river's meander has caused it to narrow to approximately 800 yards (730 metres) in width. The area to the north is one-time marshlands; to the north of that there

792-512: The town is the Gateway Academy, the main secondary school for Tilbury, Chadwell St Mary and the eastern parts of Grays, as well as the adjoining Gateway Primary Free School. Additionally, USP College (Palmers Campus) lies in east Grays near Tilbury. The Port of Tilbury handles a variety of bulk cargo, timber, cars and container traffic and remains, along with Southampton and Felixstowe , one of Britain's three major container ports. It

825-455: The town. The Tilbury Band , dating from 1919, was among the leading brass bands in the UK. Notable people who have had some connection with Tilbury include: football players, John Evans (1929–2004), and Tom Scannell (1925–1994); Noel Betowski , artist, was born there in 1952; Thomas Horrocks Openshaw (1856–1929), a consultant surgeon at Tilbury Hospital; and actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje whose being raised there by foster parents

858-577: The town. The statue of St. John of Nepomuk on the town square was created in 1823. The statue of St. John of Nepomuk in Kvítkovice comes from 1723. According to legend, the statue in Kvítkovice was originally in Otrokovice and was bought for beer. The statue of Tomáš Baťa is cast from the original located in the English Tilbury . There is also a memorial to the site of the plane crash in Otrokovice, when Tomáš Baťa died in 1932. Otrokovice

891-510: The town. The town operates a transport company together with the neighbouring city of Zlín . Trolleybus line connects Otrokovice with Zlín. In addition to the conventional modes of transport, Otrokovice is also equipped with a private domestic airport and a wharf at the Morava River. Společenský dům (i.e. "Social House") is architecturally the most valuable building from the Baťa's era. It

924-674: The traditional parish and civil parish of Chadwell St Mary , which reached south to the River Thames. The parish of Tilbury Docks was established in 1903 and the Tilbury Urban District Council (UDC) in 1912; it merged with Thurrock UDC in 1936. This in turn became a borough in 1984 and then the Thurrock Unitary Authority in 1998. There are two wards covering the town, each served by two councillors: Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park for

957-488: Was built, and the municipality was renamed Baťov for several years. In 1960, the municipalities of Otrokovice and Kvítkovice were merged. Otrokovice became a town in 1964. In the following decades, further industrial expansion occurred. In past the town was significantly connected with the Bata company which owned multiple local industries including the large shoe factory that created its initial wealth. Continental Barum has

990-452: Was changed by the process of embanking the river and enclosing areas of marsh. This improved the river's flow, and also resulted in improved land resources on the marsh. It was nevertheless an unhealthy place in which to live; Daniel Defoe , who, in 1696, operated a tile and brick factory in the Tilbury marshes and lived in a nearby house, wrote about " the Essex ague ". In 1588 Queen Elizabeth I came ashore here to review her main army at

1023-472: Was designed by Vladimír Karfík and built in 1936. This functionalist building serves today as a hotel and is protected as a cultural monument. The Church of Saint Michael the Archangel is located on the town square in the original centre of Otrokovice. It was built as a chapel in 1769 and expanded into a church a hundred years later. The Church of Saint Adalbert was built in 1995 and is modern landmark of

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1056-461: Was designed to cross-fire with a similar structure at New Tavern, Gravesend. During the Armada campaign (1588), the fort was reinforced with earthworks and a palisade, and a boom of chains , ships' masts and cables was stretched across the Thames to Gravesend, anchored by lighters. The fort was rebuilt under Charles I and is now owned by English Heritage . Until 1903, the marshland area was part of

1089-483: Was established as separate settlement in the late 19th century, on land that was mainly part of Chadwell St Mary . It contains a 16th century fort and an ancient cross-river ferry . Tilbury is part of the Port of London with a major deep-water port which contributes to the local economy. Situated 24 miles (38.5 km) east of central London and 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Southend-on-Sea (the nearest city), it

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