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North Ockendon
North Ockendon is the easternmost and most outlying settlement of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Havering. It is east-northeast of Central London and consists of a dispersed settlement within the Metropolitan Green Belt. It was historically an ancient parish in the county of Essex, which was abolished for civil purposes in 1936. North Ockendon is the only area in Greater London outside the M25 London Orbital Motorway. North Ockendon is north of South Ockendon, in Thurrock, Essex. History North Ockendon ancient parish had an elongated east–west shape, thus contrasting with a series of perpendicular parishes to its north and west. With the adjoining parishes this formed a large estate that is at least middle-Saxon or, perhaps, even Roman or Bronze Age. The parish church, dedicated to Mary Magdalene, was built in the fourteenth century, on the site of an earlier church. From 1894 until it was abolished in 1936, North Ockendon formed a parish in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornchurch And Upminster (UK Parliament Constituency)
Hornchurch and Upminster is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Julia Lopez of the Conservative Party. Constituency profile and history The easternmost seat in Greater London, this seat was created by merging two of the three old constituencies comprising the London borough of Havering, specifically Hornchurch and Upminster. These two seats were lost by the Conservatives in Labour's landslide 1997 victory, but Upminster was one of the few Conservative gains in 2001 and Hornchurch was lost by Labour in 2005; this area is now very safe territory for the Conservatives since it gained their strongest areas from Hornchurch in the boundary changes. The 2015 result made the seat the 146th safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. Also in the 2015 election, UKIP beat two of the 'big three' parties, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, and came second with 25% of the vote - one of their best results in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orsett Rural District
Orsett Rural District was the local government district centred on Orsett in south Essex, England from 1894 to 1936; a little of its far west is in modern Greater London. Likewise in modern terms the area is mostly east of the M25 motorway and north of the Thames Estuary. It was formed in 1894. Housing quite few residents, it gradually fell from 62.4 to 49.6 square miles. Its notable omission was Grays or Great Thurrock; Thurrock was the main successor district. From 1835 until 1894, its parishes fell in the Orsett Poor Law Union (see the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834). For sewerage purposes from 1875 (with Grays Thurrock until 1886) they formed the Orsett Rural Sanitary District, and during the latter's currency the divorce of civil parishes in England from ecclesiastical parishes finalised nationally. Coverage The district comprised the parishes of: *Aveley (until 1929)2 * Bulphan * Chadwell St Mary (until 1912)1 * Corringham * East Tilbury * Fobbing *Horndon-on-the-Hill *Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Warley
Little Warley is a village and former civil parish, now in the unparished area of Brentwood, in the Brentwood district, in the county of Essex, England. It is situated south of Thorndon Country Park. In 1931 the parish had a population of 395. On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Brentwood, part also went to Little Burstead. The first outbreak of the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak occurred here. Since 2003 the area around St Peter's Church, but not the entire former parish, has formed part of the reconstituted civil parish of West Horndon. Notable people Albert Thomas "Robert" Marley, paternal grandfather of Jamaican musician Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981; baptised in 1980 as Berhane Selassie) was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements o ..., was born in the parish in 1851. St Peter's Church r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Warley
Great Warley is a village in the Warley ward of Brentwood borough in Essex, England. It is situated to the far south west of the county and near to the Greater London boundary and the M25 motorway. Consecrated in 1904, the Grade I listed parish church, St Mary the Virgin is noted for its art nouveau interior. A little further to the south is The Kilns Hotel which dates back to the 16th Century. History From 1894 the Great Warley parish formed part of Romford Rural District and covered an area of . In 1901 it had a population of 1,900. Great Warley Parish Council was the parish council from 1894 to 1934. The parish was split in 1934 with of its former area transferred to the Brentwood parish in Brentwood Urban District. The remaining area was transferred to Hornchurch Urban District which in 1965 was transferred to Greater London to form part of the London Borough of Havering. In 1993, following the first periodic review of Greater London, the boundary between Brentwood and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London, Tilbury And Southend Line
The London, Tilbury and Southend line, also known as Essex Thameside, is a commuter railway line on the British railway system. It connects Fenchurch Street station, in central London, with destinations in east London and Essex, including , , , , Tilbury, Southend and . Its main users are commuters travelling to and from London, particularly the City of London which is served by Fenchurch Street, and areas in east London including the Docklands financial district via London Underground and Docklands Light Railway connections at and . The line is also heavily used by leisure travellers, as it and its branches serve a number of seaside resorts, shopping areas and countryside destinations. Additionally, the Tilbury Loop portion of the route provides an artery for freight traffic to and from Dagenham Dock and the Tilbury and London Gateway ports. Freight traffic can also travel further using the connection to the Gospel Oak to Barking line and the Great Eastern Main Line at Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulphan
Bulphan (pronounced ) is a village and former civil parish in the borough of Thurrock in the East of England and one of the traditional (Church of England) parishes in Thurrock. In 2019 it had an estimated population of 1028. In 1931 the parish had a population of 455. History On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form Thurrock. Bulphan's original village shop closed down in 2012. However, a new community-run shop and post office opened in early 2020, in a side extension of the village hall. Geography Bulphan forms part of the Orsett ward of Thurrock Council, and is part of the South Basildon and East Thurrock parliamentary constituency. It is located 21 miles (34 km) east north-east of Charing Cross in London. The Upminster post town forms a long, thin protrusion eastwards over the M25 motorway and the Greater London boundary in order to include the village. The main features of Bulphan are the Bulphan Village Hall and Park, St Mary The Virgin Church, and Bulphan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upminster
Upminster is a suburban town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Havering. Located east-northeast of Charing Cross, it is one of the district centres identified for development in the London Plan. Historically a rural village, Upminster grew from the ancient parish of St. Lawrence, in the union of Romford; part of the hundred of Chafford and the historic county of Essex. The economic history of Upminster is characterised by a shift from farming to brick making to garden suburb. It is currently mainly commercial shopping, small businesses and residential. It was first connected to central London by rail in 1885 and has a terminal station on the London Underground network. As part of the suburban growth of London in the 20th century, Upminster significantly expanded and increased in population, becoming part of Hornchurch Urban District in 1934, and has formed part of Greater London since 1965. History Toponymy The placename Upminster is first recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Kucinich
Elizabeth Jane Kucinich (''née'' Harper; born 22 October 1977) is a British organic food and vegan advocate. She has produced two documentaries and is married to the retired eight-term US Congressman and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. Early life Born Elizabeth Jane Harper, daughter of Graham Harper and Julia Massey (divorced), she was brought up in North Ockendon in the London Borough of Havering, England. Kucinich holds a BA in Religious Studies and Theology and an MA in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent and also has a certificate in Peace and Reconciliation Studies from Coventry University. Career In 2005, after working with rural and urban poor in India and Tanzania, Kucinich moved to the US to organize the first international conference on monetary reform for the American Monetary Institute. She has also been the Director of Policy at the Center for Food Safety and the government affairs director for the Physicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stubbers
Stubbers was a stately home in North Ockendon, Essex, England. The house was demolished in 1955 and the grounds became the Stubbers Activity Centre in 2011. History The earliest reference to the estate subsequently known as Stubbers was in 1334. The name comes from William Stubber who owned the house in the 15th century. In the early 17th century it was the home of William Coys, a well known botanist, who established a walled garden that subsequently provided plants for the establishment of Kew Gardens. The garden contained 342 plant species and in 1604 a yucca plant bloomed there, for the first time in England. In the book ''Early English Botanists'' Coys is attributed with compiling a list of his plants for John Goodyer of Hampshire, this being described as the oldest known list of plants from an English garden giving their scientific names. In 1689, the estate was bought by Sir William Russell, a London draper who included King Charles II among his acquaintances. Stubbers rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WayBack Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go "back in time" and see how websites looked in the past. Its founders, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages. Launched on May 10, 1996, the Wayback Machine had more than 38.2 million records at the end of 2009. , the Wayback Machine had saved more than 760 billion web pages. More than 350 million web pages are added daily. History The Wayback Machine began archiving cached web pages in 1996. One of the earliest known pages was saved on May 10, 1996, at 2:08p.m. Internet Archive founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat launched the Wayback Machine in San Francisco, California, in October 2001, primarily to address the problem of we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Bonsor
Sir Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor, 4th Baronet, DL (born 9 December 1942) is a British Conservative politician. Early life Bonsor was educated at Eton College and Keble College, Oxford. Political career Having unsuccessfully fought Newcastle-under-Lyme in both February and October 1974 elections, Bonsor was Member of Parliament for Nantwich from 1979 to 1983, then for Upminster from 1983 until he lost the seat to Labour's Keith Darvill in 1997. He was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1997 and practised as a barrister in London. In 1994, just before he became a minister, Bonsor had challenged the incumbent Sir Marcus Fox for the chairmanship of the influential 1922 Committee, and narrowly lost by 129 votes to 116. Bonsor, a Eurosceptic, had previously rebelled against the government by voting several times against the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in the 1992-93 parliamentary session. Post-Parliamentary career He lives at Liscombe Park near Soulbury in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thurrock Urban District
Thurrock was a local government district and civil parish in south Essex, England from 1936 to 1974. The parish and urban district was formed from the former area of the following civil parishes which had been abolished in 1936: *From Grays Thurrock Urban District: ** Grays Thurrock *From Orsett Rural District: ** Bulphan ** Corringham ** East Tilbury ** Fobbing **Horndon-on-the-Hill **Langdon Hills ** Little Thurrock **Mucking ** North Ockendon (part) ** Orsett ** Stanford-le-Hope ** Stifford ** West Tilbury *From Purfleet Urban District: **Aveley ** South Ockendon ** West Thurrock *From Tilbury Urban District: ** Chadwell St Mary The district was enlarged in 1938 by gaining part of the former Little Burstead parish from Billericay Urban District. The district was abolished in 1974. The part within Basildon New Town became part of Basildon District, while the remainder became the present-day Borough of Thurrock. It has since become a unitary authority A unitary author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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